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CNL Lifestyle Properties to Pay $132 Million for Crested Butte, Okemo, and Mount Sunapee

Posted on December 5, 2008 by Eric OKeefe

CNL Lifestyle Properties, an Orlando-based real-estate investment trust (REIT) will announce today that it is acquiring Crested Butte Ski Resort in Colorado (pictured), Okemo Mountain Resort in Vermont, and Mount Sunapee Ski Resport in New Hampshire from Triple Peaks LLC…

Tagged with: Broad Bay, CNL Lifestyle Properties, Colorado, Crested Butte, Eric O'Keefe, Kiskiack, Mount Sunapee, New Hampshire, Okemo, real estate investment trust, REIT, The Crossings, Traditional Golf Properties, Triple Peaks LLC, Vermont, Virginia
Posted in Feature, Golf, News Desk, Northeast, Recreation, Regional News, South, Topics, West

More Coverage on the Yellowstone Club Bankruptcy Case

Posted on December 3, 2008 by Eric OKeefe

It wasn’t two years ago that every media outlet known to man was clamoring over one another to give more column inches to the biggest, gawdiest monstrosity in the West: the Yellowstone Club’s record-breaking $155-million home. Though we’ve banged the drum…

Tagged with: Bill Gates, Chapter 11, Dan Quayle, Discovery Land Co., Edra Blixseth, Eric Oâ€™Keefe, Gallatin Mountains, Greg LeMond, Land Report 100, Montana, Montana ranches, Promontory Club, Tim Blixseth, Yellowstone Club
Posted in Feature, Golf, News Desk, Recreation, Regional News, Residential Property, Timber, Topics, West

For Sale: Colorado’s Hunt Ranch Back on Market for $30,000 Per Acre / $17 Million

Posted on December 2, 2008 by Eric OKeefe

In a surprising turn of events that is the norm in real estate development, the investment group that paid $8 million for an historic cattle ranch downvalley from Aspen was denied crucial development rights by Garfield County. Hunt Ranch LLC had applied to develop…

Tagged with: Aspen, Colorado, Eric O'Keefe, Garfield County, Greg Amsden, Highway 82, Hunt Ranch, Missouri Heights
Posted in Cattle, Conservation, Developers, Equestrian, Eric OKeefe, Feature, News Desk, Recreation, Regional News, Residential Property, Topics, West

Pinon Canyon: “One Colossal Land Grab”

Posted on December 1, 2008 by Land Report Editors

Folks in Southern Colorado don’t trust the Army. And with good reason. In 1983, when the Department of Defense established the 500-square-mile Pinon Canon Maneuver Site (PCMS), the Army acquired almost half the 285,000 acres by using eminent domain. It…

Tagged with: Charlie Goodnight, Comanche National Grasslands, Dave Foster, Defense Authorization Act, Department of Defense, DoD, Doug Lamborn, Fort Carson, Gustav Schmiege, Jim Herrell, Joel Hefley, John Salazar, Ken Salazar, Kennie Gyurman, Lon Robertson, Mack Louden, Marilyn Musgrave, Pinon Canon Maneuver Site, The Nature Conservancy, US Army, Wayne Allard
Posted in 2008 Fall, Cattle, Farming, Feature, Federal Policy, Gustav Schmiege, Magazine, News Desk, Public Land, Topics, Trey Garrison, West

Behind the Woodshed: Jeff Hawn

Posted on November 26, 2008 by Eric OKeefe

The Land Report prides itself on singling out landowners who make a difference, inspire others, and establish a legacy. This will not be one of those instances. The name Jeff Hawn will never be included under the category Good Neighbor. Instead, it…

Tagged with: Attachmate, bison, Colorado, Jeff Hawn, Katherine O'Brien, Monte Downare, Park County, Stephen Groome
Posted in Cattle, Eric OKeefe, Feature, News Desk, Regional News, Residential Property, Topics, West

Sold! Montana’s 6,462-acre Scott Ranch

Posted on November 25, 2008 by Land Report Editors

A lot of noteworthy closings taking place in and around Yellowstone County, Montana. Last week we reported on the sale of the 15,800-acre Bar Diamond Ranch. This time around it’s the 6,462-acre Scott Ranch on the Crow Reservation southeast of Billings, which James Stinehagen of the…

Tagged with: Billings, cattle ranches, Flying S Cattle Company, James Stinehagen, Land Sale, Montana, ranch, Scott Ranch, sheriff's deed, sheriff's sale
Posted in Cattle, Conservation, Farming, Feature, West

Potential for Massive Wildfires Next Summer in the West

Posted on November 21, 2008 by Eric OKeefe

The great plague that is the pine beetle infestation has now destroyed millions of acres of timber across the western U.S. and into Canada. The extent of this calamity is so enormous that last month we covered the devastation at…

Tagged with: bark beetle, beetle kill, forest fires, Forest Service, Jim Robbins, The New York Times, USFS, wildfires
Posted in Conservation, Eric OKeefe, Feature, News Desk, Public Land, Recreation, Regional News, Timber, Topics, West

Sold! Montana’s 15,800-acre Bar Diamond Ranch

Posted on November 18, 2008 by Land Report Editors

There seems to be no sign of an economic fallout in Montana’s still strong recreational land market. That’s the takeaway from the Billings Gazette, which reports that the 15,800-acre Bar Diamond Ranch has closed.

Tagged with: Billings, Cattle, Grant Gannon, Jack Dietrich, Land Sale, Montana, Richard Brown, Vince Carpenter, Yellowstone County
Posted in Cattle, Feature, Great Plains, Hunting, Recreation, West

Yellowstone Club Files for Bankruptcy

Posted on November 11, 2008 by Eric OKeefe

The world’s only private ski and golf community has sought bankruptcy protection. The Yellowstone Club, an exclusive 13,400-acre retreat in Montana’s Gallatin Mountains whose members include Microsoft cofounder Bill Gates and former vice president Dan Quayle, filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection in…

Tagged with: Bill Gates, Chapter 11, Dan Quayle, Discovery Land Co., Edra Blixseth, Eric O'Keefe, Gallatin Mountains, Greg LeMond, Land Report 100, Montana, Montana ranches, Tim Blixseth, Yellowstone Club
Posted in Bankruptcy, Developers, Eric OKeefe, Feature, News Desk, Recreation, Regional News, Residential Property, Timber, Topics, West

Ted Turner Tops the 2008 Land Report 100

Posted on November 1, 2008 by Eric OKeefe

For the second year in a row, Ted Turner take top honors as America’s largest landowner with more than a dozen properties totaling more than 2 million acres. Add to this more than 100,000 acres in Argentina, where he owns…