Soapstone Prairie Natural Area was acquired by the City of Fort Collins Natural Areas Department in 2004 and has been managed collaboratively with a local grazing association since then. The same grazing association had also been leasing the land from the previous owners, prior to the area's acquisition by the City of Fort Collins.

Coyote Ridge Natural Area was obtained by the City of Fort Collins Natural Areas Department in 2017 and has been collaboratively managed with a private rancher/producer since 2019. Prior to 2017, this area was part of a private cattle and wheat ranch, homesteaded in 1959. The ungrazed area is officially a portion of Larimer County's Rimrock Open Space, which has been excluded from grazing for over a decade.

Coalton Trail Open Space is a large contiguous property that was acquired by Boulder County Parks and Open Space in small parcels over time. Due to its vicinity to highly populated urban areas, Coalton Trail is a popular recreation site for hiking and biking. It has been managed collaboratively with the same local rancher/producer since 1995.

Lowry Ranch is a property of the Colorado State Land Board acquired in three separate transactions in 1964, 1966, and 1991. It has a long diverse history as an army airfield and experimental bombing range, which was then converted back into ranch land and managed exclusively by a continuous grazing regime until 2007, when cattle use was discontinued for the next 7 years. In 2014, with a new sustainability initiative, Lowry's management transitioned to a holistic, rotational grazing framework. Although Lowry Ranch is a government-owned property, whose revenue supports public interests like education, it is not open to the public for recreation.