Posted on 08/18/2022 2:59:30 PM PDT by george76
Moguls are lavishing ever-larger fortunes on the rustic life, prompted in part by the pandemic..
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America remains one of the last countries where so many individuals own colossal swaths of land, some controlling acreage larger than Delaware. The West, a lodestar in the nation’s story, holds an enduring allure for modern land barons.
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Americans have long looked West to enrich their holdings, panning for mineral rights. The Rockefellers accumulated massive fiefdoms of land, eventually donating much of their holdings to the National Park Service. But the pandemic prompted a Western land grab, with moguls fleeing the cities for homes on the range. Demand remains high. The challenge is inventory. In this region of big spreads, there’s little.
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The private plane market is booming, making it easier for the wealthy to travel from one of their places to the others. Many of them like to tour prospective properties by helicopter
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In 2007, the 100 largest private landowners owned a combined 27 million acres of property. Fourteen years later, they control 42.2 million acres,
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Ranching eats investment. Winters are a beast. August ignites fire season. Eight people work at the Bar Cross during cattle season, including ranch manager Katie Scarbrough, one of the rare women in the business, who has a master’s degree in ranch management and a 1-year-old son. A large working ranch is nothing without a top manager, particularly if the owner has other properties and businesses to attend to.
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As you know, that’s been going on for a long time in Colorado and still is. There’s just a lot more rich people in America now.
Libertarianism + Socialism = Socialism
I got mine so you can’t have yours.
You’ll eat bugs ... we’ll fly private jets.
This is how Goddess Gaia ordained it to be.
“In 2007, the 100 largest private landowners owned a combined 27 million acres of property. Fourteen years later, they control 42.2 million acres...”
Well, which is it? Ownership or control of the land? Not necessarily the same thing. A little apples-to-oranges dishonesty there?
Also, what does “panning for mineral rights” mean?
Until your mechanic gets tired of the fried crickets and grubs.
Ranchettes. 5 acres or less. Beautiful life.
And figures out that he can be 1. the only jet mechanic 2. the jet co-pilot (along with his best pal the pilot) and 3. the new co-boss of their former billionaire boss’s bug-out villa-mansion-estate.
I like the large land owners. They tend to be good stewards of the land and they don’t do much with it other than build a mansion in one corner and improve the habitat. Usually, long term conservation easements are involved too.
And then they die and some of it gets broken up again. It’s nothing to worry about except for those who hate seeing others succeed in spectacular fashion. Under even today’s hog-tied capitalism, some people will be very successful.
Just big enough to be a headache but not large enough to live off of.
and those little airports
Have Great Restaurants!!!
Good points.
General Aviation. It’s the best way to fly.
A subculture not one in 100 has even the slightest clue of.
“The $100 hamburger” is an inside joke, but a happy one.
It’s a big problem for hunters. The critters learn real fast that if they jump the fence onto private land they won’t get shot. Or the rich guy charges high prices for access.
Post the acres of land the Chinese own/control in the USA...
Post the acres of land the Chinese own/control in the USA...
I sold 45 acres of open space forested land in Connecticut to an Asian fellow a few years ago, he’s done nothing with it.
Wasn’t Liberace fabulously wealthy?
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