Although I don’t agree with the conclusion of this excellent article in Sunday’s Dallas Morning News – that the biggest mineral play in the U.S. has gone bust – there is a lot of good hands-on reporting by Elizabeth Souder…
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U.S. Marshals Seize 695-Acre Texas Hill Country Ranch
A few years ago I started noticing all the classifieds that were advertising vehicles for sale. They had been seized by one branch or another of the federal government. Most of the time drugs were involved. Then, thanks to the mortgage meltdown, county sheriffs…
Tagged with: Babo Teich, Bandera, Floyd Seibert, Grant Gannon, San Antonio, Texas, Texas Hill Country, U.S. Marshal Service
Posted in Feature, Regional News, Southwest
Posted in Feature, Regional News, Southwest
Developer’s Diary: Ute Lake Ranch
A couple of weeks ago my fearless editor and I hitched a ride on a single-engine prop from Denver’s Centennial Airport to Tucumcari, the heart of northeast New Mexico, for a visit to a great new resort development we had been hearing about.
Tagged with: Carma US, Eddie Lee Rider, Jack Nicklaus, Ute Lake Ranch
Posted in Developers, Eddie Lee Rider, Equestrian, Feature, Golf, Hunting, News Desk, Recreation, Regional News, Residential Property, Southwest, Water
Posted in Developers, Eddie Lee Rider, Equestrian, Feature, Golf, Hunting, News Desk, Recreation, Regional News, Residential Property, Southwest, Water
T. Boone Pickens: The Land Report Interview
Join Land Report Editor Eric O’Keefe as he goes behind the scenes with the legendary Texas oil man on his Roberts County ranch and in his quest to wean America off foreign oil.
Tagged with: Bobby Stillwell, Boone Pickens, Chris Busbee, energy policy, Eric O'Keefe, Kansas, Kathleen Sebelius, Madeleine Pickens, Mesa Vista Ranch, Pickens Plan, Roberts County, solar energy, Ted Turner, Texas Panhandle, The First Billion, Wind Belt, wind energy
Posted in 2008 Fall, Energy, Eric OKeefe, Feature, Hunting, Minerals, News Desk, Southwest, Water
Posted in 2008 Fall, Energy, Eric OKeefe, Feature, Hunting, Minerals, News Desk, Southwest, Water
Shuttered Texas Silver Mine to Reopen?
First it was ethanol and the price per acre in the Corn Belt. Then oil and gas began propping up land values in mineral-rich areas such as the huge shales found coast to coast. Now other commodities are driving other…
Tagged with: Brad Kelley, Clayton Williams, Jeff Bezos, Land Report 100, Shafter, silver, silver mining, Stephen OKeefe, Texas
Posted in Energy, Feature, Minerals, News Desk, Southwest, Stephen OKeefe, Topics
Posted in Energy, Feature, Minerals, News Desk, Southwest, Stephen OKeefe, Topics
Mexico Opposes Ethanol
As we’ve seen over the last few months, skyrocketing commodity prices are pushing land values to record levels. They are also squeezing cattlemen and other producers who rely on corn and other grains to fatten livestock and poultry. One of…
Tagged with: Alberto Cardenas, corn ethanol, EPA, ethanol, Renewable Fuel Standard, Rick Perry
Posted in Energy, Eric OKeefe, Farming, Feature, Federal Policy, International, News Desk, Southwest
Posted in Energy, Eric OKeefe, Farming, Feature, Federal Policy, International, News Desk, Southwest
Corn Profits Sky High
Corn revenues could easily surpass $40 billion in the United States this year as farmers rush to take advantage of rising interest in ethanol, according to a recent report issued by the U.S. Department of Agriculture.
Tagged with: corn, corn ethanol, corn prices, farm policy, USDA
Posted in Agriculture, Federal Policy, Great Lakes, Great Plains, Midwest, South, Southwest, West
Posted in Agriculture, Federal Policy, Great Lakes, Great Plains, Midwest, South, Southwest, West
Nolan Ryan: The Land Report Interview
Cheap and close. Those are the two criteria you use when you’re looking to buy land and you make only $7,000 a year. At least those were the two Nolan Ryan used back in the 1960s when he began buying…
BLM Makes Push to Buy Western Land
BY JOSEPH GUINTO PUBLISHED NOVEMBER 2007 Under a federal law, the BLM, an arm of the Department of the Interior, has begun buying private properties that carve into federal wildlife refuges, national parks, national forests, and their ilk, making those…
Tagged with: BLM, Coachella Valley, Interior Department, Joe Guinto, Joshua Tree National Park, National Park Service, Taylor Grazing Act, USFS
Posted in Federal Policy, Magazine, News Desk, November 2007, Pacific, Public Land, Regional News, Southwest, Topics, West
Posted in Federal Policy, Magazine, News Desk, November 2007, Pacific, Public Land, Regional News, Southwest, Topics, West
Texas at Vortex of Wind Power Debate
BY JOE NICK PATOSKI El Capitan stands as a stone sentinel, a jagged limestone monolith that buttresses the southern flank of the tallest mountain range in Texas. It is imperious and daunting, the most visible landmark for hundreds of miles.…
Tagged with: Alternative energy, Babcock & Brown, Baffin Bay, Caesar Kleberg Wildlife Research Institute, Delaware Mountains, El Capitan, Jack Hunt, Kenedy Ranch, King Ranch, Laguna Madre, Mifflin Kenedy, Padre Island, Richard King, Wild Horse Desert, wind energy
Posted in November 2007, Regional News, Southwest
Posted in November 2007, Regional News, Southwest
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