Public Land

Land Report November 2019 Newsletter

Posted on November 15, 2019 by Land Report Editors

Featured listings from our Investing Issue highlight our November newsletter, including: Colorado’s Diamond Tail Ranch. Martha’s Vineyard’s Red Gate Farm. Virginia’s Eldon Stock Farm. Washington’s Lakeridge Homestead. For up-to-the-minute reports on breaking news, be sure to follow us on Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest, and Instagram.

America’s National Mammal Returns to Badlands Habitat for the First Time in More Than a Century

Posted on November 7, 2019 by Land Report Editors

Thanks to a land swap involving the 22,000-acre Don Kelly Ranch, bison have returned to portions of South Dakota’s Badlands for the first time since the 1870s. Engineered by the US Forest Service and the World Wildlife Fund among others,…

Sporting Goods Sales Tax Revenue on the Ballot

Posted on November 5, 2019 by Land Report Editors

For more than two decades, Texas legislators have used sales tax revenues from sporting goods sales as a private piggy bank, directing those receipts away from the outdoors to other line items in the state budget. Thanks to the Texas…

Land Report 2018 Conservation Deal of the Year: Cabin Bluff Sporting Plantation

Posted on October 9, 2019 by Land Report Editors

Preserving A Landmark Hunting and Fishing Club The nation’s oldest hunting and fishing club is saved from almost certain extinction. By Corinne Garcia It’s hard to believe that just across the waters from the bustling tourist enclaves of Amelia Island,…

Hughes Family: 2018 Land Report 100 sponsored by LandLeader

Posted on September 20, 2019 by Land Report Editors

No. 30 Hughes Family 390,000 acres Patriarch Dan Hughes Sr. was a legend in the oil and gas industry. He began as a roustabout in high school, earned a geology degree from Texas A&M, and then found, financed, and drilled…

Landmark Eminent Domain Ruling

Posted on September 20, 2019 by Land Report Editors

by Cary Estes Landowners no longer will be fenced in by state decisions when it comes to eminent domain cases thanks to a recent Supreme Court ruling. By a 5-4 vote, the high court ruled in Knick v. Township of…

Tagged with: eminent domain, Institute for Justice, Robert McNamara, Supreme Court
Posted in Feature, Federal Policy, News Desk, Public Land

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…

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

Blackfeet National Park to be Studied

Posted on July 24, 2019 by Land Report Editors

A feasibility study is being prepared for Montana’s Blackfeet Nation regarding the development of a national park on tribal lands bordering Glacier National Park. Although many specifics remain to be determined, the development of such a parkland could potentially generate…

Tagged with: bison, Blackfeet Nation, Montana, national park, tribal lands
Posted in Agriculture, Conservation, Feature, Montana, News Desk, Public Land, Recreation, West

Go West, Bureau of Land Management

Posted on June 28, 2019 by Land Report Editors

According to the Interior Department, officials are scouting a new location for BLM headquarters nearer the terrain it manages: 388,000 square miles, 99 percent of which can be found in a dozen Western states. Look for an announcement in September…