The Dupont Company originally used adjacent lands to house both their employees and their dynamite plant in historic Louviers, a town named after the Dupont family’s ancestral home in France. In 2002 the company donated the land worth $3.7 million to Douglas County and The Conservation Fund.

The donated land is home to a diversity of species of wildlife, including elk and black bear, as well as a wide variety of birds. The property contains a cottonwood riparian forest, riparian shrub land, mixed foothill prairie, and rugged montane shrub land plant communities that are in good condition. The donation helped secure that an important wildlife habitat is now protected along with major wildlife movement corridors. There is  limited public access to the Dupont property.  Special group hikes may be arranged with Douglas County.