The Eagle Ridge Ranch is located in Natrona County just a few miles west of Casper and sits along the North Platte River with scenic views of Casper Mountain. Stacey’s father, Dr. Oliver Scott, moved to Casper in 1948 and became the first board-certified pediatrician in Wyoming. A short eight years later, he bought the Eagle Ridge Ranch.  

In 1980, Dr. Scott placed all of the deed-ed land on the ranch at that time into a conservation ease-ment with The Nature Conservancy. The 8,400-acre easement was the largest conservation easement in Wyoming at that time.   
The Eagle Ridge Ranch provides important seasonal and year-round habitats for a broad diversity of wildlife. Riparian areas along the North Platte River and Little Red Creek are home to large cottonwood galleries and vitally important riparian vegeta-tion.  Irrigated meadows not only provide important hay for his agricultural operation, but also are host to substantial numbers of pronghorn, mule deer, white-tailed deer, and turkeys.   

Stacey is a conservationist at his very core. After spending 17 years in Alaska as a state auditor who audited major oil compa-nies, Stacey returned to Wyoming in 1996 to run the Eagle Ridge Ranch.  His father, Dr. Scott, who founded the Wyoming Audu-bon Society and started the Casper Christmas Bird Count in 1949, also passed on a love of birds to his sons. Stacey is a lifelong member of the Wyoming Audubon Society (now known as the Murie Audubon Society), and remains very active within the or-ganization.