“...Rupert Murdoch just purchased the 340,000 acre Beaverhead Ranch...”
Only 113,000 acred are deeded — the other 226,000 acres are LEASED.
Leases can be terminated very quickly in this state - especially if the owner/s are being nefarious.
True most large ranches in Western states have a significant part that is leased by either state, federal or both to the ranch. And in places like Texas or Oklahoma the mineral rights are separate from the ranch. Most western states like Utah have water rights that go with the ranches depending on whether its a cattle or crop production operation. One of the largest ranch holdings in the US is in Florida and owned by the Mormon church I believe it is SE of Kissimmee and as cities encroach the church is selling off parts of it.
Democratic power figure Hillary Clinton decided to weigh in on Wednesday’s vote in the Senate to defeat her party’s latest power grab, but had to delete one of her own Twitter posts, apparently over some embarrassing math.
But there was so much more to be embarrassed about — even for a Clinton.
As sharp-eyed Twitter monitors noticed, Clinton took down a post in the middle of a thread about the Senate showdown that resulted in a united Republican Party and two Democratic senators combining to keep the filibuster in place in the upper body of Congress.
A woman who’s spent her entire adult life in politics misstated the voting tally:
Out West sometimes “leased” means that the deeded land controls access to Federal BLM land. Lots of times the pioneers just staked out the bottom land and creeks which in turn, controlled access to the less productive range/timber/minerals in the back country. Do you know which? Our local BLM guys have been working for about half a century to trade their way into better access to their own lands.
Sometimes it gets funny. A few years ago one of my cousins traded access to a hot spring mudhole for a couple miles of fence and some culverts. The hot tub hippies immediately began trashing the mudhole. But the BLM has to keep it clean. So they fenced it off. Not sure who got the “Genius” award for that program?