A northern New Mexico ranch where novelist D.H. Lawrence once sought spiritual renewal is in need of its own renewal.
The University of New Mexico, which owns the picturesque mountain ranch north of Taos, is seeking ways to preserve the property.
UNM officials say they have formed the D.H. Lawrence Ranch Initiatives to strategize how to fund developing the site into a place for educational and cultural activities.
Advocates say the 160-acre ranch has fallen into decline, especially after the death of a longtime caretaker in 2008.
They say Lawrence and his wife, Frieda, made summer visits in 1924 and 1925.
Frieda Lawrence, who died in 1956, left the property to the school in her will.
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