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How to Buy a Napa Vineyard

Posted on June 1, 2007 by Eric OKeefe

I came across this little ditty from the June 2007 issue when Julie Blacklidge profiled Francis Ford Coppola and we got some great interview footage of FFC that is now in our Video Archives. I think a more complete How…

Tagged with: California, Francis Ford Coppola, Mike Silvas, Morgan Lane Real Estate, Napa, vineyards, wine, wine making
Posted in Eric OKeefe, Farming, Feature, June 2007, Magazine, News Desk, Pacific, Regional News, Topics

Interview: Tom Brokaw

Posted on May 15, 2007 by Eric OKeefe

The Land Report, May 2007 He has a front-row seat at some of the most momentous events in recent history, yet to hear him tell it, what happened on a river bank on his Montana ranch a couple of years…

Posted in Eric OKeefe, Interviews, May 2007

Preserving Endangered Species for Profit

Posted on May 1, 2007 by Land Report Editors

Who can save the Alabama red-bellied turtle? Maybe your accountant can. He or she will have a chance if Congress passes new legislation that would give tax breaks to landowners who act to preserve species like the Alabama red-bellied turtle,…

Tagged with: Alabama red-bellied turtle, Dan Young, Endangered Species Act, ESA, Joseph Guinto, Max Baucus, Senate Finance Committee
Posted in Conservation, Joseph Guinto, Magazine, May 2007, News Desk, Taxes, Topics

Going Off the Grid

Posted on May 1, 2007 by Eric OKeefe

Four miles from the nearest road. No electricity. No running water. Not even cell phone service. No matter. “It took me more than a year to find this place,” Chet Morrison says as he gestures toward the larger-than-life views…

Tagged with: Big Bend, Chet Morrison, Eric O'Keefe, West Texas
Posted in Eric OKeefe, Magazine, May 2007, News Desk, Regional News, Southwest

Tom Brokaw: The Land Report Interview

Posted on May 1, 2007 by Eric OKeefe

BY ERIC O’KEEFE PUBLISHED MAY 2007 Tom Brokaw has had a front-row seat at some of the most momentous events in recent history, yet to hear him tell it, what happened on an isolated river bank on his Montana ranch…

Tagged with: A Long Way From Home, Buck Brannaman, Hungarian partridge, KMTV, KNBC, landownership, Meredith Brokaw, Michael Keaton, Montana, NBC, Red Brokaw, sharp-tailed grouse, South Dakota, The Greatest Generation, The Horse Whisperer, The Today Show, Tom Brokaw
Posted in Cattle, Conservation, Equestrian, Eric OKeefe, Feature, Hunting, Magazine, May 2007, News Desk, Recreation, Regional News, Residential Property, Timber, Topics, Water, West

Will Conservation Easement Tax Breaks Be Extended?

Posted on May 1, 2007 by Land Report Editors

BY JOSEPH GUINTO PUBLISHED MAY 2007 Act now or forever lose your easement. A tax break for conservation-related land donations-known as conservation easements-is about to expire. That is unless Congress does something about it. The tax break, signed into law…

Tagged with: conservation easements, Joseph Guinto, Land Trust Alliance, taxation
Posted in Conservation, Joseph Guinto, Magazine, May 2007, News Desk, Taxes

End of the Conservation Reserve Program?

Posted on April 1, 2007 by Land Report Editors

BY JOSEPH GUINTO PUBLISHED APRIL 2007 With the Bush administration backing off on the Conservation Reserve Program (CRP), conservation and hunting groups fear the 22-year-old program once dubbed “Noah’s Arc for Wildlife” is a sinking ship. Backers of the CRP,…

Tagged with: Bush Administration, conservation reserve program, corn ethanol, CRP, Delta Waterfowl, ethanol, Rob Olson, USDA
Posted in April 2007, Conservation, Energy, Farming, Feature, Federal Policy, Hunting, Joseph Guinto, Magazine, Midwest, News Desk, Public Land, Recreation, Topics

Cut Your Taxes With An Agricultural Exemption

Posted on April 1, 2007 by Land Report Editors

BY TREY GARRISON Anne Barnett has seen it all. The Florida real estate broker is also a licensed commercial appraiser and has developed and sold properties in Key West, Georgia, and throughout North and Central Florida, including Gainesville, where she…