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Land -Continued from: 3A tmst by everyone from private citi- zens and lessees to conservation groups and local government organi- zations. The largest single nominator was the Colorado Division of Wildlife, which submitted 39 sepa- rate parcels for their importance as wildlife habitat. Among those were fiyt pieces of land in Routt County. including the 4,000-acre Jimmy Dhnn Gulch area northwest of Hayden, the 640-acre California Park and the 640-acre "Storm Mountain" section in south of Toponas. Other local parcels now in the running For the Stewardship Tmst were nominated by agricultural lessees, concerned residents and even Routt County. At one end of the size range is the 15,000-acre Twentymile Park area southwest of Milner, nomi- nated by the current lessees, Camilletti and Sons, Inc., for continu- ation of agricultural and multiuse recreational leases to preserve open space, promote local agriculture and reduce public pressure to develop the area. At the other end are the 640-acre Moonhill and Clark sections in North Routt County, nominated by property neighbor Mike Braal and lessees Murphy Larsen Ranch, respectively, both of whom propose continuing agricultural and recreational leases to preserve open space. The most famous local nomina- tion is Steamboat's 6,900-acre Emerald Mountain, nominated by Routt County through a cooperative venture that involved agricultural lessees, recreationists and wildlife organizations with vested interests in the "backdrop" to Steamboat Springs. However famous or obscure, though, all 130 parcels nominated across the state are now being scruti- nized equally in an intensive evalua- lion process that, State Land Board officials emphasize, "is not a popu- larity contest." People are encour- aged to send written comments to the State Land Board about nominated patcels, but those comments will be used for their substantive content, and will not be "tallied to see which parcel gets the most votes," Stewardship Trust Coordinator Alden Whittaker said. Land inducted imo the [rust will continue to be managed for the bene- fit of tnts[ beneficiaries - [he largest of which is K-12 public education - and land uses such as ranching and mining will most likely continue.