By Cary Estes • Photography courtesy of SVN Saunders Real Estate The Land Report’s 2020 Deal of the Year actually took five years to orchestrate. The result was well worth it, as the State of Florida took title to a…
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2020 Timberland Deal of the Year
By Lisa Martin | Photography by Jay Brittain Last November, one of the largest conservation transactions in the history of Minnesota closed when PotlatchDeltic Corporation sold 72,440 acres of timberland to The Conservation Fund for $48 million. The Richard King…
Tagged with: 2020 Timberland Deal of the Year, Conservation, forestland, Goldman Sachs, Minnesota, Minnesota's Heritage Forest, PotlatchDeltic, Richard King Mellon Foundation, The Conservation Fund, timberland, Timberland Deal of the Year
Posted in Conservation, Deal of the Year, Editor's Choice, Feature, Great Lakes, Minnesota, Timber
Posted in Conservation, Deal of the Year, Editor's Choice, Feature, Great Lakes, Minnesota, Timber
2020 Ranchland Deal of the Year
By Lisa Martin | Photography courtesy of Hall and Hall Shortly after ending his bid for the White House, former New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg bought Henry Kravis’s 4,603-acre ranch in Northwest Colorado. His Honor reportedly paid $44.8 million…
Land Report June 2021 Newsletter
The Magazine of the American Landowner is pleased to announce the 2020 Deals of the Year. They include: 2020 Deal of the Year: The Bluffs of Saint Teresa 2020 Conservation Deal of the Year: Fishers Peak State Park 2020 Farmland…
Posted in California, Colorado, Florida, Great Lakes, Minnesota, News Desk, Newsletter, Pacific, South, West
2020 Farmland Deal of the Year
By Christina Holbrook | Photography courtesy of Ferrari-Carano Here’s to the 2020 acquisition of Ferrari-Carano Vineyards and Winery by Bill Foley. The estimated $250 million purchase doubled Foley Family Wines’ holdings in Sonoma County to nearly 2,400 acres and upped production…
2020 Conservation Deal of the Year
By Lisa Martin | Photography by Cameron Davidson Fishers Peak lords over an unsullied playground rife with elk, mountain lion, and black bear. The distinctive 9,633-foot spur of Raton Mesa ranks as the highest point in the nation east of…
Tagged with: 2020 Conservation Deal of the Year, Colorado, Colorado Parks and Wildlife Habitat, Conservation, Conservation Deal of the Year, Fishers Peak, Fishers Peak State Park, Great Outdoors Colorado, National Fish & Wildlife Foundation, Outdoor recreation, Raton Mesa, Rocky Mountains, The Nature Conservancy, Trinidad
Posted in Colorado, Conservation, Deal of the Year, Editor's Choice, Feature, Public Land, Recreation, West
Posted in Colorado, Conservation, Deal of the Year, Editor's Choice, Feature, Public Land, Recreation, West
2021 Land Report Texas Issue
Presenting our 2021 Texas Issue featuring: The Four Sixes Rides into New Territory: For the first time in more than 150 years, the great Texas ranch prepares to change hands. Henry Chappell and Wyman Meinzer report from the Sixes’ King County…
Tagged with: 6666 Ranch, Anne Marion, Boone Pickens, Four Sixes Ranch, Joe Leathers, Katharine Armstrong, Laura Bush, Open V Ranch, Regan Gammon, Texan by Nature, Western art
Posted in Back Issues, News Desk, Southwest, Texas
Posted in Back Issues, News Desk, Southwest, Texas
Salute to the Sixes
By Henry Chappell Photography by Wyman Meinzer Nothing reflects the culture of a ranch like its cattle roundups. The individual skill of each cowboy tells us only so much. Over-reliance on flashy horsemanship, however thrilling, suggests lack of teamwork or…
Tagged with: Anne Marion, Anne Windfohr Marion, Boots O’Neal, Bud Arnett, Burk Burnett, Burnett Ranches, caprock, Dan Waggoner, Dixon Creek, Doc Blodgett, Dr. Glenn Blodgett, Four Sixes, Four Sixes Ranch, Gulf Oil Number 1, High Plains, Horace Bryant, Jerome Agreement, Joe Leathers, Quanah Parker, Return to the Remuda Sale, Rolling Plains, Samuel Burk Burnett, Southern Great Plains, Thomas Loyd Burnett, Tom Burnett, Triangle Ranch
Posted in Agriculture, Cattle, Conservation, Energy, Henry Chappell, Ranching, Recreation, Southwest, Texas
Posted in Agriculture, Cattle, Conservation, Energy, Henry Chappell, Ranching, Recreation, Southwest, Texas
Suppressing Fires Has Failed
Five of California’s 10 largest fires in modern history are all burning at once. Together, this year’s wildfires have already destroyed 4,200 buildings, forced hundreds of thousands of people to flee their homes, and scorched more than 3.2 million acres…
Tagged with: California, California Wildfire Commission, controlled burns, Fire Suppression, mitigation, Stanford Woods Institute, U.S. Forest Service, wildfires
Posted in California, Editor's Choice, Pacific, West
Posted in California, Editor's Choice, Pacific, West
Land Report March 2021 Newsletter
HANCOCK AGRICULTURE and its S. Kidman and Co joint venture partner have listed seven Australian cattle stations totaling 1.876 million hectares (4.6 million acres) with Elders Ltd. Other stories in our March newsletter include: Hatcher Farms brings $38 million at…
Tagged with: Concierge Auctions, Hall and Hall Auctions, Hancock Agricultural, Peoples Company, Rayonier, S Kidman and Co, Weyerhaeuser
Posted in Great Plains, International, News Desk, Newsletter, South, West
Posted in Great Plains, International, News Desk, Newsletter, South, West
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