Jenkins’s methodology of storytelling, where he plays the role of the creative director, story editor, producer, and agent for all his listings. This contributed to extensive media coverage received on behalf of how well he marketed the property, such as Wall Street Journal, Business Insider, RobbReport, Realtor.com, and more.

“The property was shown and had the first offer by the buyer in only three days, then went under contract three days later, closing in 39 calendar days. It was truly an honor to have an opportunity to work on this estate property. You have to dig deep into the backstory and understand the heritage and legacy to tell the story from an informed standpoint,” said Jenkins.

Jenkins was the top-selling individual agent in Wyoming in 2021, as awarded by Real Trends. With $54 million in sales already closed so far in 2022. Jenkins’ distinctive approach to buyers and sellers continues to drive value in a slowing market.

“Latham is the best real estate agent I’ve ever worked with. His willingness to go above and beyond in research helped us to position our property perfectly in terms of price, which led to a fast offer and closing. He misses no detail and does everything he can to make the property look good, the process be smooth, and all parties end up happy,” said the seller, Julie Givens.

To learn more about what created this successful transaction, click here to read the case study.

About Latham Jenkins, Realtor:
Latham’s personal mantra – connecting people with experiences – informs all that he does. It’s how he guides each buyer through this life-changing transaction, driven by his three areas of “hyper-local” expertise: real estate services, lifestyle insights and valued relationships with premier financial planners. With Latham, buyers find more than a home; they find a way of life. In 2021, Jenkins was named Live Water Properties’ Top Producing National Broker and runner-up in 2018 & 2020.

About Live Water Jackson Hole
Live Water Jackson Hole is the residential arm of Live Water Properties, specializing in estate, resort, ranch and luxury properties in the greater Jackson Hole region. LiveWaterJacksonHole.com

About Live Water Properties
Live Water Properties is a land and ranch brokerage specializing in premier fly fishing, hunting, ranching, recreational and conservation land. With $2.625 Billion in closed deals, they are uniquely qualified to assist in all aspects of ranch ownership. Since its inception in 2001, Live Water Properties has grown into a 24-person, 12-state land brokerage firm. They are represented throughout the United States with Brokers in Wyoming, Idaho, Colorado, Nebraska, Montana, Nevada, Utah, New Mexico, Oregon, Georgia, Florida, South Carolina, and Texas. The team at Live Water Properties is distinctly qualified to connect clients with their dream properties.

We thought we’d share with you the many reasons that brought us to the Dancing Pine Ranch and the Durango area in the first place and how we have come to love it.

After deciding to sell our large ranch in Montana, my husband and I spent three years crisscrossing the Rocky Mountain West looking for the “perfect” place to live. We were both mostly retired. I had lived and worked in Monaco for over twenty years enjoying its culture, ballet, opera, and concerts while he was the retired CEO of a large mutual fund company in New York City and has a passion for the outdoors. We both love travel, culture, great food, fine wine, and the outdoors whether it was hiking, fishing, skiing, hunting, or photography.

We knew it would not be easy to find a place that would meet all our diverse criteria. The criteria included:

• Privacy. The property needed to be large enough to be private, but small enough that it wouldn’t be too much work, leaving us free to travel more.
• Great trout fishing. The property needed onsite fishing, with easy access from the house, as my husband is a fanatical fly fisherman.
• Good horse property. We wanted a barn, open meadows, and riding trails, as I love to ride.
• Less than a half hour to a commercial airport since we both love to travel.
• A variety of gourmet restaurants since we are serious foodies.
• High-quality hospital nearby. This becomes more important as we get older.
• Cultural opportunities such as museums, concerts, galleries, etc.
• Wide variety of shopping opportunities from box stores to boutiques.
• A myriad of outdoor activities such as hiking, rafting, skiing, snowmobiling, and wildlife viewing.
• Good weather. Not too hot or too cold and not too rainy.
• A house with a guest house having wonderful views and big enough for family and friends’ visits, home for a caretaker, or as an income-producing rental.

We knew it would be a tough search, but we just were not willing to compromise! It took us a while but after looking at over twenty properties we did finally find that very private “perfect” property.

Dancing Pine Ranch is a 182-acre end-of-the-road property that overlooks the Pine River, a totally private gold-medal trout stream with great fishing and some truly “big” fish. We are surrounded by a large ranch (the owners are here full time and are the nicest neighbors one could hope to have) on the north, south, and west and by the Pine River on the East.

The main house is a magnificent 8,000 sq. ft. home with four bedrooms, four full baths, and two half baths. The kitchen is a 120 sq. ft. gourmet kitchen (I love to cook) with an attached “breakfast” room and walk-in pantry. It is an “open landscape” design home with the kitchen, dining room, living room, and library all open to each other. This open space is great for parties yet intimate enough that it works well for just the two of us. There is a large entertainment deck with a hot tub connecting the kitchen, den, and breakfast room with the master bedroom. I love the views and the sounds of the river.

The sumptuous master bedroom suite has a log propane adobe fireplace opening onto the hot tub deck. The master bath has two quite large walk-in closets, two sinks, two toilet stalls, a glorious two-person shower, and a large soaking tub (luxury personified). They both have great views of the river and its peaceful sounds. In addition, there is a connected TV room/den enabling one of us to sleep (usually my husband) while I watch TV and cuddle with our dogs.

Just beyond the living room, there is a large entertainment room and a game room (pool and ping pong). Additionally, we have nearly finished a large in-law’s apartment.

Downstairs there are two bedrooms, two baths, a comfortable living room, and a small kitchen. A great place for children and grandchildren to stay when they visit! There is also a large (1,000 bottle humidified wine cellar).

The “piece de resistance” downstairs is a large recreation center highlighted by a heated 15-foot resistance pool with an underwater treadmill and adjustable water flow which is a great low-impact exercise. The ranch has a three-bedroom guest house at the entrance to the property plus a large barn and two loafing sheds for horses.

The variety of wildlife is stunning! Herds of elk, many mule deer, flocks of wild turkeys, and the occasional black bear and bobcat. We see deer and elk nearly every day from the house in the meadows to the west, in the same place we have gorgeous sunsets. It doesn’t get any better than seeing the fawns and calf elk frolicking or the bear cubs in our horse watering trough. The birdlife is tremendously varied and a joy to watch. From the Rufus Hummingbirds chasing each other around the feeders to the rare, brilliantly colored Lewis’s Woodpecker, to the magnificent Great Blue Heron nesting in an 80-foot Ponderosa Pine along the river.

We especially enjoy our gardens. Jon grows a large vegetable garden where he grows sweet corn, potatoes, watermelons, lettuce, and more. We fence them to keep the deer and elk from eating the fresh vegetables we enjoy eating. In addition, we have several highly productive apple and apricot trees.

Our spectacular flower gardens are a kaleidoscope of ever-changing colors from spring through fall. They start blooming in the early spring with daffodils, then out come the pink and white peonies, purple iris, Colorado columbines with their delicate flowers, and many more. They continue through the summer and into the fall. Since I lived in the south of France, I have a passion for lavender, so we have three different varieties. To attract the hummingbirds and butterflies we have a blanket, cone, and rudbeckia flowers. They are joined by salvia, hyssop, blue geranium, mock orange, Apache tears, and yucca later in July. In the fall the shrubs begin to take over with their burgundy foliage and candy pink coral berries. Since I grew up in the Midwest and love the brilliant red of maple trees, we have two that contrast with the big golden aspen trees in our front yard.

The Pine River is a trout fisherman’s dream! It is a wholly private tail-water fishery big enough to have a good population of trophy (over 20”) browns and rainbows, yet small enough and private enough that there is never a drift boat or another fisherman. Since it is a tail-water fishery it fishes well pretty much all year long. Jon loves fly-fishing and gets truly excited to watch a big brown or rainbow rise to his hopper imitation. While the average fish he catches is in the 16” to 18” range he frequently catches ones much larger. His biggest is a 27” brown and most days he will catch at least one that is 20” plus. Usually, a half day of fishing produces six to ten fish, mostly browns with a good number of hefty rainbows. Having the river down the hill from our house is tremendously convenient – no loading the car, attaching a trailer, and driving an hour or more to start fishing.

The nearest town of Bayfield is about a ten-minute drive from the Dancing Pine Ranch. Bayfield has all the essential small-town services plus a couple of quite good restaurants. If you want to join the locals for a hearty meal the western atmosphere of Brenda’s is the place to go. There are a couple of good restaurants serving Mexican, pizzas, and burgers with craft beers. Our favorite for dinner is the Mill Street Bistro, which serves three gourmet entrees, great starters, and the choice of some awesome cocktails. They are open Wednesday to Saturday evenings and will do catering to your home.

In Durango, only a half-hour drive from Dancing Pine Ranch, there are at least a dozen truly gourmet restaurants. Eating in the historic Strater Hotel is a must. You have the choice of the Diamond Belle, a western saloon, where the staff dresses in period dance hall costumes and has great food and drinks. The more romantic choice in the Strater is the gourmet Mahogany Grill. We are frequent diners at Seasons who have won the Best Award of Excellence from Wine Spectator, Eolus with their rooftop dining and incredible “Two Ways’ prime rib that Jon usually eats and the lobster burger that is my favorite. Other restaurants that we regularly dine at including Ore House (steak and seafood), Primus (wild game and seafood), and 636 Main (Fine dining and martinis). The wide range of choices includes American, French, Mexican, Italian, and even Himalayan. It is so close to such outstanding food choices that we are regular patrons.

Durango and its airport are each about a 30-minute drive from the ranch. The Durango/La Plata County Airport has frequent daily service by American and United to Denver, Dallas, and Phoenix.

Durango is a marvelous town. The weather in Durango and Bayfield is nearly perfect. With early springs, late falls, and comfortable summers. It was recently ranked by the Tourism Sentiment Index as the most loved tourist destination in Colorado and number seven in the United States. No wonder we love it so much! Its number of gourmet restaurants, a wide array of cultural opportunities and outdoor activities, and great shopping are what brought us here in the first place. The incredible cliff dwellings at Mesa Verde National Park, the narrow-gauge steam-driven train up the near vertical Animas Canyon, the world-class hot springs at Pagosa Springs, the skiing at Wolf Creek and Purgatory, the 1.8-million-acre San Juan National Forest with its many hiking trails to high mountain lakes, wildflower meadows, and bugling elk, are all within an hour’s drive. Additionally, historic high mountain towns like Telluride, Ouray, and Crested Butte are only a day’s trip away. Sante Fe with its myriad of art galleries and fine restaurants is only about a three-hour drive away. You could live here for a lifetime and not have seen all the fascinating activities the area has to offer.

Friends ask us, “Why are you planning to leave the place you love so much?” Well, we are not leaving Durango we love it too much! We’re just downsizing a bit and buying a boat that will enable us to cruise the Bahamas, Nantucket, and other places for six months of the year.

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Tommy Bagwell was the owner of American Proteins, before selling the company to Tyson Foods in 2018. Originally founded by his father in 1949, the company is a world leader in poultry protein and fat sales. The Bagwell family owns a similar sporting property in north Georgia and enlisted Live Water Properties to help purchase a ranch with the goal of creating a legacy retreat for their family with sporting elements and privacy. After narrowing the search to Colorado, they looked across the state, from the Vail Valley, South Park, Gunnison, and Crested Butte. Their search eventually led them to Steamboat and the Big Creek Ranch. The property was not actively listed at the time of purchase, though it had been listed previously.

According to a recent article in the Wall Street Journal, “Mr. Bagwell said he spent several years searching for the right property and was drawn to the privacy of Big Creek Ranch. About 80% of his property line abuts land owned by the U.S. Forest Service. The eight-bedroom, 10,000-square-foot main residence also is situated a few miles from the main road. ‘You can be out roasting s’mores and know in the next 100 years, no one will have a house on the ridge looking into your property,’ Mr. Bagwell said. ‘That’s very rare.’”

“As the crow flies, it’s less than 10 miles from the resort area,” Live Water Properties Broker Brian Hartley told the Wall Street Journal. The article continues with Hartley adding, “the ranch’s size, proximity to town and privacy would be impossible to replicate in other popular resort areas, including Jackson Hole, Wyo., Telluride, Vail and Aspen. Compared with other resort valleys, Steamboat has been under the radar until recently. That shifted in the past couple of years. Numerous large parcels traded hands in late 2020 and 2021.”

The ranch is partially under conservation easement by Colorado Cattlemen’s Agricultural Land Trust. As exceptional stewards of the land, the Bagwell family intends to pursue additional conservation and habitat enhancement projects on the ranch. According to Live Water Properties Associate Broker Brian Hartley, “The Bagwell Family looks forward to continuing the long-standing agricultural practices on this iconic Colorado working and sporting ranch. With an eye towards preservation and land stewardship, the family will be undertaking efforts to improve the fishery habitat along Big Creek, as well as considering the placement of conservation easements on the ranch to protect the private valley in perpetuity”.

Read the entire Wall Street Journal article here. 

Jackson Hole Ranch

Jackson Hole, Wyoming | 233 Acres | $35M
With the anticipated clearing of the Snake River in the weeks to come, the native fine-spotted Cutthroat Trout will be feeding on PMDs in the riffles. Ready your larger stonefly patterns for casting into the grassy cutbacks, and don’t miss your hook set from the distracting Teton Range views.

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Dancing Pine Ranch

Bayfield, Colorado | 182 Acres | $10.75M 

Dancing Pine Ranch provides discerning anglers the chance at a “trout of a lifetime” with each cast. This tailwater fishery may not have the fanfare of some other notable tailwater sections in the state, namely the Taylor River or Frying Pan. However, this is because access to this trout-factory-of-a-fishery is private downstream of the Vallecito Dam. Primarily comprised of rainbows and browns, the tailwater nature of this fishery ensures consistent cool water and abundant insect life – the “net” result is well-fed fish, aerial acrobatics, and deep runs once hooked. On a recent trip, we found fish rising to brown-bodied hoppers, elk hair caddis, and black ant imitations in the afternoon. Whereas early morning action was more consistent on the subsurface half of our dry/dropper rig. The lurking browns, which are not uncommon over 24”, can be tempted to leave the deep holding water with a dark streamer pattern in lowlight conditions. Brian Hartley, Wyoming and Colorado Broker

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Sopris Lakeview Ranch 

Glenwood Springs, Colorado | 902 Acres | $8.495M

Sopris Lakeview Ranch offers 20+ acres of entirely private stillwater fishing on the Hughes Reservoir located on the ranch. While the water has been a bit off-color in recent weeks due to snowmelt coming down the tributary system feeding the lake, these stream influences are starting to clear, and the lake will follow suit. The go-to patterns on this stillwater fishery are primarily blue damselflies and a mixed bag of terrestrials to illicit surface strikes, while bigger fish are typically found with slow-stripped leech patterns. The real beauty of this fishing experience is the wildlife you’re likely to encounter while on the water. It’s not uncommon to share the lake experience with elk, mule deer, or the occasional moose who frequent this serene retreat to the water and might even take a swim. Brian Hartley, Wyoming and Colorado Broker

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R&C Ranch 

Fossil, OR | 5,430 Acres | $6.15M Reduced

The John Day River is one of the most well-known smallmouth bass fisheries in the United States. The John Day can be “a tale of two fisheries” depending on the time of year. As the water heats up along one of the longest undammed rivers in the West, the smallmouth get active and hit flies with aggression. Fly anglers use both top water and subsurface approaches to catch these fish. On the surface, tried and true sneaky Pete’s, dalberg divers, and boogle bugs work extremely well along cut banks. When targeting the larger breeder smallies, go subsurface with wooly bugger-type patterns such as the jawbreaker by Solitude Fly Co. in any color. Tied like a wooly bugger but with a rubber tail and long rubber legs, large smallmouth cannot resist. Also, crayfish patterns work well on this river too, and for those getting into the trout spey game, you can use the same setup for smallmouth. Ryland Moore, Oregon Broker

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Bird Cloud Ranch

Saratoga, Wyoming | 640 Acres | $5.5M

Bird Cloud Ranch offers over one mile of both sides of the famed North Platte River in Saratoga, WY. As flows continue to settle out from the annual runoff event on this scenic freestone river, the typical menu of summer hatches will avail itself to the resident trout. Anglers on this stretch of river should be prepared to match primarily caddis and trico hatches to target rising fish, while the classic hopper/dropper rig will prove to be a productive tactic for trout looking upwards for large terrestrials, while covering another level of the water column with a small caddis or stonefly nymph. Brian Hartley, Wyoming and Colorado Broker

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Sunrise Ranch

Anatone, Washington | 2,685 Acres | $5.49M Reduced

The Grande Ronde is an incredible fishery in northeast Oregon and southeast Washington that eventually flows into the Snake River. It holds smallmouth bass, rainbow trout, a summer run of steelhead, spring chinook salmon and coho. During the summer months, those anadromous species have yet to arrive, but there is still plenty of fishing to be had between the smallmouth and rainbows. June provides a wonderful stonefly hatch that both smallmouth and rainbows attack with abandon. As the summer heats up, trout are found in deeper riffles and pools and smallmouth seem to be prevalent throughout the lower river where the Sunrise Ranch is located. The first steelhead and salmon start showing up at the onset of fall, and the fishing for these anadromous “bruisers” only increases as the end of the year approaches. Ryland Moore, Oregon Broker

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Henry’s Fork Overlook

Ashton, ID | 213 Acres | $5M

The Henry’s Fork in the Ashton area has been a bit of a mystery in 2022 for anglers hoping to catch the annual salmon fly hatch. This hatch is usually one of the best regionally and typically comes at a time when most other area fisheries are swollen with spring snowmelt. Angler friends have said, “the bugs are around, but the fish didn’t seem to be keyed in on them this year.” We are not sure if it was the weather patterns, fluctuation due to consistent cold spring rains, or the fish have simply become educated to our tricks, perhaps a combination of them all.  Many anglers found success sub-surface nymphing smaller stone flies size 6-8 “turd” with split back or smaller nymph trailer, but who wants to do that when the big bugs are around? With the tail end of the Salmon Fly hatch upon us, we are starting to see more golden stones and are eagerly anticipating the green drake hatch in the next week. As of June 15^th,  fishing on Harriman State Park, known to many locals as the “Railroad Ranch” section of the river is open. Tate Jarry, Idaho, Wyoming and Montana Broker

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Blackfoot River Retreat

Blackfoot Valley, Montana | 85.25 Acres | $4.99M

After a wet spring in Western Montana, suddenly it’s summer, and we’ve traded our rain gear for sandals and shorts, and our nymph rigs for single dry flies. The Missoula area rivers are faring well and avoided much of the high-water catastrophe that our friends on the other side of the divide encountered this spring.

Currently, the very body of water that inspired Norman Maclean’s masterpiece, A River Runs Through It, is dropping into its river-wide summer-fishing glory. On the Blackfoot’s main river reaches you’ll find lingering salmonflies and goldens well into July, but expect fish to prefer smaller attractor offerings as flows drop later into summer. Upstream from the boat traffic near the Blackfoot River Retreat, the gravel bars are becoming exposed, giving wade anglers their haven for the summer. Anglers up here enjoy miles and miles of wade fishing paradise.  Expect good dry fly fishing with a varied fare, but no magic recipe across the board – throw on a single hopper and cover water. It’s hard to beat a day fishing the “‘Foot” this time of year. Dan Mahoney, Missoula Broker and Licensed Fishing Outfitter

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The Reserve on the East River
Crested Butte, Colorado | 35 Acres | $1.85M
The Reserve on the East River has abundant bug life throughout the spring, summer and fall. Starting in the spring, midges and mayflies, such as PMDs and BWOs, kick off the dry fly season as the rising water temps allow for large morning and afternoon hatches. As the water temps rise more into the summer months, caddis and stoneflies, such as golden stones and y­ellow Sallies, join the hatch. Finally, the late summer and early fall months bring terrestrials such as hoppers, ants, and beetles into the equation. This area allows for fantastic dry fly and nymph fishing. Brian Hartley, Wyoming and Colorado Broker

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