Hunting

T. Boone Pickens: The Land Report Interview

Posted on October 1, 2008 by Eric OKeefe

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

678,000 Acres for $20 Million?

Posted on June 18, 2008 by Eric OKeefe

For the price of a penthouse overlooking Central Park, an investor could also buy 1,000 square miles in Brazil. Prices such as this listing in the Amazon River basin’s Madeira River are one of the many reasons that many are looking…

Tagged with: Amazon, Brazil, foreign ownership, Johan Eliasch, overseas
Posted in Cattle, Conservation, Eric OKeefe, Farming, Feature, Hunting, International, News Desk, Timber, Topics, Water

Hunting Land is a Hot Investment

Posted on June 15, 2008 by Land Report Editors

Over the last decade there’s been a boom in rural land prices throughout much of the United States and parts of Canada. I say this not because of some government report or a recently released study but based on firsthand…

Tagged with: 1031 exchange, capital gains tax, hunting, hunting land
Posted in Hunting, Magazine, November 2007, Topics

Sale of the Forbes Trinchera Ranch

Posted on January 27, 2008 by Eric OKeefe

Land Report Editor Eric O’Keefe discusses one the biggest sales of 2007, the 171,000-acre Forbes Trinchera Ranch in Colorado to hedge fund manager Louis Bacon.

Tagged with: Forbes Ranch, Land Report 100, Louis Bacon, Sangre de Cristos, Trinchera Ranch
Posted in Conservation, Eric OKeefe, Hunting, Minerals, News Desk, Recreation, Regional News, Residential Property, Taxes, Topics, Video, West

New Law Protects Pennsylvania Landowners

Posted on August 1, 2007 by Land Report Editors

The State of Independence has liberated landowners in a case that may set a national precedent. Earlier this summer, Pennsylvania Governor Ed Rendell signed a law granting new protections to landowners who open their property to sportsmen and others for…

Open Fields Legislation Offers Payments to Landowners

Posted on July 1, 2007 by Land Report Editors

Remember that little place in the woods where you used to get off spectacular hip shots while hunting birds on the wing? Well, there’s a strip mall there now. That’s an increasingly common issue for hunters, whose once-prized spots are…

Tagged with: Congress, Jerry Moran, Joseph Guinto, Kent Conrad, Open Fields, Pat Roberts, USDA
Posted in Feature, Hunting, Joseph Guinto, July 2007, Magazine, News Desk, Recreation, Topics

Tom Brokaw: The Land Report Interview

Posted on May 1, 2007 by Eric OKeefe

BY ERIC O’KEEFE PUBLISHED MAY 2007 Tom Brokaw has had a front-row seat at some of the most momentous events in recent history, yet to hear him tell it, what happened on an isolated river bank on his Montana ranch…

End of the Conservation Reserve Program?

Posted on April 1, 2007 by Land Report Editors

BY JOSEPH GUINTO PUBLISHED APRIL 2007 With the Bush administration backing off on the Conservation Reserve Program (CRP), conservation and hunting groups fear the 22-year-old program once dubbed “Noah’s Arc for Wildlife” is a sinking ship. Backers of the CRP,…