The Cows Of Fort Collins

I was driving home after dropping some boxes off at a storage locker on the north side of Fort Collins the other day, and passed the cow pasture seen in the above photograph. The remarkable thing is that this pasture is within the city limits of Fort Collins itself. For such a fast-growing city like Fort Collins, home of Colorado State University, I think this is just amazing. Where I grew up, on the South Side of Chicago, cow pastures were few and far between. The only area that was even semi-rural was the Dan Ryan Woods, and there was not a cow in sight there. Probably due to a city ordinance, I suspect. I'll have to look that up one of these days when I have the time. Perhaps in a decade or two.