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America’s Smallest Appellation Sells There’s a particular breed of wine aficionado who insists on having everything just right. Specific varietals in specific glasses. Serving temperatures not in a range but at a number: 49° for whites and 59° for reds.…
Las Varas Ranch is donated to the University of California, Santa Barbara (UCSB). In a move that won praise from both educators and environmentalists, Berkshire Hathaway’s second-in-command funded the $70 million acquisition of the historic 1,800-acre Las Varas Ranch by…
The Magazine of the American Landowner presents our 2020 survey of the leading real estate brokerages in the PACIFIC that specialize in land. – Edited by Cary Estes CALIFORNIA OUTDOOR PROPERTIES CALIFORNIAOUTDOORPROPERTIES.COM | (707) 455-4444 2019 Sales: $100M–$250M Who: One…
Highlights from our August newsletter include: The sale of a Texas hunting mecca, the $13.2 million Caloosa Ranch in Stonewall County. The listing of an Adirondack landmark, New York’s $180 million Whitney Park. A historic holding, Virginia’s 1,115-acre Woodside Farms, goes…
Charles Munger acquires – and then donates – Santa Barbara County’s Las Varas Ranch The billionaire Berkshire Hathaway vice chairman reportedly spent $70 million for the property, which he donated to the University of California, Santa Barbara. “This is much…
Ford Family | No. 15 600,000 ACRES (up 20,000 acres) Founded by Washington native Kenneth Ford (1908–1997) in 1936, ROSEBURG FOREST PRODUCTS has become one of the largest family-owned wood products manufacturers in the nation. The company’s expansive timber holdings…
Wilks Brothers | No. 12 708,475 ACRES (up 3,108 acres) Based west of Fort Worth, FRAC TECH founders Farris and Dan Wilks love land. Not only do they have substantial holdings in Montana and Idaho as well as properties in…
Singleton Family | No. 9 1,110,000 ACRES Family patriarch HENRY SINGLETON (1916–1999) purchased New Mexico’s historic San Cristobal Ranch in 1986. Located just south of Santa Fe between the Cerrillos Hills, the Jemez Mountains, the Ortiz Mountains, and the Sangre…
Reed Family | No. 4 1,726,295 ACRES (down 2,937 acres) Headquartered in Seattle, the Reed family’s GREEN DIAMOND RESOURCE COMPANY is a fifth-generation, family-owned forest products company. According to Forisk Consulting, its holdings span eight states in the Pacific Northwest…
The roots of SIERRA PACIFIC INDUSTRIES (SPI) go back to 1949 when Curly Emmerson and his son Red went into business together, leasing a small sawmill and forming a partnership. Seventy years later, Red and his family are still in…
