Posted on 02/07/2008 11:36:02 AM PST by george76
CNN founder Ted Turner, the largest private landowner in Nebraska and the United States and the nation's largest bison rancher, said Wednesday that he is about done buying new ranches.
He said he would like to reach 2 million acres nationwide before he dies — about 40,000 acres more than he currently owns.
"I'm almost done. I've got enough," said Turner...
The 69-year-old billionaire, philanthropist and conservationist said he isn't interested in free-standing ranches anymore, only "reasonably priced" parcels adjacent to his current operations, which include five ranches in Nebraska near Gordon, Oshkosh and Mullen. The ranches cover 425,221 acres, an area larger than Douglas and Sarpy Counties combined.
"You know what 2 million acres is?" Turner asked over a plate of bison miniburgers and transfat-free onion rings. "If my land was all connected, in one long straight line, a mile deep, it would stretch from New York to San Francisco."
Then he joked: "I've been thinking about doing some swaps. I'd be able to cut the United States in half and charge people from going from the north to the south."
Turner answered questions on a broad range of subjects — his political preferences, the profitability of bison, his shrinking fortune and conspiracy theories ...
(Excerpt) Read more at omaha.com ...
Oh, shoot! I don't have my Capt. Obvious picture on this computer!
But it's OK for wealthy liberals to hog up resources but not for wealthy Republicans. Those are the rules.
” Turner bought Vermejo, the Forest Service bought the Baca Ranch in North Central NM...”
ht Ben Ficklin
Turner’s Land Holdings Keep Increasing
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1867624/posts
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1872774/posts
Rumor says Paraguay has the largest natural aquifer in the world and is the reason President Bush bought the ranch that sits atop it.
New Mexico: 1,105,905
Nebraska: 425,221
Montana: 153,963
South Dakota: 141,357
Kansas: 42,479
Oklahoma: 41,689
Colorado: 34,868
Florida: 29,530
South Carolina: 10,757
Arkansas: 1,323
Georgia: 537
New Jersey may have toxic waste dumps, but at least we have zero acres owned by Ted Turner.
Thank you.
Mmmm. Buffalo burgers.
Find a reefer in his car and confiscate everything!
The turkey is scary, and certifiable!
Thanks for the ping.
I wonder what this leftist’s carbon footprint looks like.
Do you have any source for the *Bush owns land in Paraguay* runor? I ask because years ago, National Geographic ran a cover story on Paraguay and it turns out Ted Turner, Soros, Cher and assorted billionaire celeberties have all purchased retreats there. The reasons were that, being in the Southern Hemisphere, Paraguay would escape the fallout of a nuke in the US. Turner himself has been quoted (sorry, no link, just my recollection) as saying that his ranch in Paraguay was an escape hatch for the time when *the revolution* took place.
That’s what I’ve read. His real interest is water rights.
I never divulge my source of rumors unless someone is pounding bamboo sticks under my fingernails, but check out this.
Thanks.
I've read that myself.
Not exactly the most reliable sources, although one said it was for an ecological reserve.
At least the rumor will give the ultra-left uber-rich nightmares.
“OK ... what’s in Nebraska?
Sand with a little grass on it. His land is all in the Sandhills. Good ranch country.
Old Ted what a guy. He had Ruckus meeting on his property doante to save the wolves. But then make sure the wolves can’t get on his property demonizes hunting then sells high dollars hunts on his ranch.
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