Wilcox Ranch

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Credit: Clare Brandt

A thousand years ago, the Fremont People thrived in southeast Utah. One of their settlements was along a stream that would come to be known as Range Creek, on 4,000-acre Wilcox Ranch. For two generations, the Wilcox family protected the virtually untouched artifacts the Fremont People left behind. In 2001, Waldo Wilcox and his wife, Julia, decided to sell the ranch and began working with TPL and the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) to protect it. With assistance from the Utah Forest Legacy Program, TPL purchased the property, placed a conservation easement on it, and transferred the property to the BLM. Early in 2004, the land was transferred to the Utah Natural Resource Department, which is working on a management plan that will allow people to enjoy the landscape while protecting its cultural and historic treasures.