The Double Four Ranch headquarters lies within the majestic North Laramie River Canyon and is operated by Wayne Larson and Brandon Munn. The ranch, which encompasses more than 45,000 deeded acres, has played an integral part in wildlife con-servation since 1957, when it was first purchased. Through droughts, floods and major wildfires, the Double Four Ranch has managed to persevere through the hardest of conditions and al-ways makes sure wildlife remains an important part of their long-term management goals. 

The ranch has been instrumental in helping numerous bighorn sheep hunters secure access to Pine and Split Rock Mountains, as they make their once in a lifetime hunt a reality. Since 2015, the ranch has enrolled 9,140 acres of access for antlerless elk harvest in Hunt Area 7.   This work for public access has been vital to the Department in our long-range goal of reducing this herd towards the population objective.  

The ranch has been very active in assisting the Laramie Region’s fisheries biologists to monitor and as-sess water quality conditions after the 2017 Arapahoe wild fire, to determine suitability for re-stocking. They have also be instrumental in the recovery of the Hornyhead Chub (nongame fish species) by allowing the Department to transplant this important native fish from the Laramie River back 
into the North Laramie River.