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Zane & Tanya Kiehne: 2018 Land Report 100 sponsored by LandLeader

Posted on September 28, 2019 by Land Report Editors

No. 31 Zane & Tanya Kiehne 345,000 acres (NEW TO LR100) A fourth-generation rancher, Zane Kiehne was raised in New Mexico on a US Forest Service allotment with very little deeded land. He became a ranch broker and finally bought…

Let’s Make A Deal

Posted on September 20, 2019 by Land Report Editors

Over the last two decades, water levels in the nation’s largest man-made reservoir, Lake Mead, have fallen to the point that it is at 39 percent of capacity. A similar plight faces the nation’s second largest reservoir, Lake Powell. Drought…

Holding Family: 2018 Land Report 100 sponsored by LandLeader

Posted on September 20, 2019 by Land Report Editors

No. 29 Holding Family 395,030 acres (down 4,790-acres) Robert Earl Holding (1926–2003) purchased SINCLAIR OIL CORP. for $78 million in 1976. The following year, he and wife, Carol, bought Idaho’s SUN VALLEY resort for $12 million. More recently, the Holdings…

Food for Thought: Mother Nature

Posted on September 14, 2019 by Land Report Editors

By Corinne Garcia WHY DO SO MANY absentee ranch owners – those fulfilling a dream of owning a ranch for business and recreational purposes – cash out after a brief hold of just five to seven years? “Because their ranch…

Tagged with: Chris Jeffrey, Melinda Jeffrey, Thistledew Montana Grasslands
Posted in Agriculture, Cattle, Corinne Garcia, Feature, Montana, West

The Land Report Rockies 2019

Posted on September 1, 2019 by Land Report Editors

Go West! According to the Census Bureau, more and more Americans are moving out West. Hence, the focus of this special issue. In addition to a closer look at this compelling demographic trend, our Rockies special issue also feature these…

Private Paradise

Posted on August 16, 2019 by Land Report Editors

Established by ranch owners for ranch owners, EXPLORE RANCHES offers exclusive access to private landholdings across Texas and beyond. – Lisa Martin Guests had come to ogle steep bluffs and sheer canyon walls. The pitch-black West Texas skies stole their…

Land Report August 2019 Newsletter

Posted on August 15, 2019 by Land Report Editors

A billion here, a billion there, pretty soon you’re talking about serious money, right? I’m referring to the colossal implosion of the Mountain of Beverly Hills, the 157-acre, $1 billion listing in the 90210 zip code that sold at auction…

BLM to Move Headquarters to Colorado

Posted on August 14, 2019 by Land Report Editors

The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) announced plans to move its headquarters from Washington, DC, to Grand Junction, Colorado, so top officials can be closer to the land managed by the agency. The BLM oversees approximately 388,000 square miles of…

Tagged with: BLM, Bureau of Land Management, Grand Junction, headquarters
Posted in Colorado, Feature, Federal Policy, News Desk, Public Land, West

Stimson Family: 2018 Land Report 100 sponsored by LandLeader

Posted on August 8, 2019 by Land Report Editors

No. 20 Stimson Family 552,000 acres One of the nation’s oldest continuously operating integrated wood products companies, the family’s STIMSON LUMBER COMPANY pre-dates the Civil War. Founder Thomas Douglass (T.D.) Stimson (1827—1898) blazed a trail for six generations of his…

69,126-Acre Front Range Ranch Lists for $16.5 Million

Posted on August 4, 2019 by Land Report Editors

Red Top Ranch, one of Colorado’s best known cattle operations, has been listed with Ken Mirr of Mirr Ranch Group for approximately $238 per deeded acre. Currently owned by the Malone Family Land Preservation Foundation, the ranch was owned by…