Carpenter Ranch

CPR is located at The Nature Conservancy property Carpenter Ranch Preserve outside of Hayden, Colorado. Carpenter Ranch is about 30 mins west of Steamboat Springs, CO. The station is located on the banks of the Yampa River in a grassy pasture behind the ranch, next to a hay barn, and surrounded on the edges by cottonwood trees. The soil is soft and loamy at the surface although we did encounter coarser sand and gravel with some small cobbles towards the base of the soil pit.