No. 13 Wilks Brothers 702,000 acres (up 30,000 acres) In 2011, Farris and Dan Wilks sold their 70 percent stake in Frac Tech Holdings for $3.5 billion to a group that included South Korea’s sovereign wealth fund. In addition to…
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Wilks Brothers: 2017 Land Report 100 sponsored by LandLeader
Tagged with: Dan Wilks, Farris Wilks, Frac Tech Holdings, LandLeader, N Bar Ranch
Posted in Feature, Hunting, Land Report 100, Montana, Recreation, Southwest, Texas, West
Posted in Feature, Hunting, Land Report 100, Montana, Recreation, Southwest, Texas, West
IRS Scrutinizes Syndicated Conservation Easements
Syndicated conservation easements are costing the federal government more than $1 billion annually, and that lost revenue is raising eyebrows in Washington. According to The Wall Street Journal, in late 2016 the IRS began requiring participants in syndicated conservation easements…
Tagged with: deduction, IRS, land preservation, syndicated conservation easement, tax
Posted in Conservation, Feature, Federal Policy, News Desk, Taxes
Posted in Conservation, Feature, Federal Policy, News Desk, Taxes
Ford Family: 2017 Land Report 100 sponsored by LandLeader
No. 12 Ford Family 783,000 acres (up 158,000 acres) Kenneth Ford (1908–1997) started out with a single sawmill cobbled together with salvaged equipment near Roseburg, Oregon. This year, his heirs acquired their first land outside of the Pacific Northwest when…
Tagged with: Ford Family, Kenneth Ford, LandLeader
Posted in Feature, Land Report 100, North Carolina, Northeast, Oregon, Pacific, Timber, Virginia
Posted in Feature, Land Report 100, North Carolina, Northeast, Oregon, Pacific, Timber, Virginia
Broward County to Pay $42 Million to Acquire 38-Acre Palm Tree Farm Next to Fort Lauderdale Airport
Commissioners agree to mediated settlement with family of Florida Congressman Clay Shaw over negative impact of new runway at Fort Lauderdale Airport. When Broward County decided to expand the Fort Lauderdale Airport, adjacent landowners soon found themselves waterlogged. The culprit?…
Pingree Heirs: 2017 Land Report 100 sponsored by LandLeader
No. 10 Pingree Heirs 830,000 acres In addition to founding one of the country’s oldest timber empires, Salem shipping merchant David Pingree ranks as a forward-thinker on a par with Henry Ford and Bill Gates. In the early 1840s, Pingree…
Tagged with: David Pingree, Maine Woods Company, Moosewood Millworks, Pingree, Portage Wood Products, Seven Islands Land Company
Posted in Conservation, Feature, Land Report 100, Maine, Northeast, Timber
Posted in Conservation, Feature, Land Report 100, Maine, Northeast, Timber
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King Ranch Heirs: 2017 Land Report 100 sponsored by LandLeader
No. 9 King Ranch Heirs 911,215 acres On August 25, the costliest hurricane in American history made landfall near Rockport, Texas. King Ranch was spared, but Hurricane Harvey took a terrible toll. In the days that followed, an overwhelming number…
Tagged with: Captain Richard King, Hurricane Harvey, King Ranch, King Ranch Heirs, LandLeader
Posted in Agriculture, Cattle, Equestrian, Farming, Feature, Land Report 100, Southwest, Texas
Posted in Agriculture, Cattle, Equestrian, Farming, Feature, Land Report 100, Southwest, Texas
Singleton Family: 2017 Land Report 100 sponsored by LandLeader
No. 8 Singleton Family 1,100,000 acres Family patriarch Henry Singleton (1916–1999) bought the historic San Cristobal Ranch south of Santa Fe in 1986. It was the first of numerous ranch acquisitions by the Teledyne cofounder, who ultimately expanded his holdings…
Tagged with: AQHA Best Remuda Award, Henry Singelton, LandLeader, San Cristobal Ranch, Singleton Family, Singleton Ranches
Posted in Agriculture, Equestrian, Farming, Feature, Land Report 100, New Mexico, Southwest
Posted in Agriculture, Equestrian, Farming, Feature, Land Report 100, New Mexico, Southwest
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Journal Readers Select Hall and Hall Listing as House of the Year
The votes are in: 121,544 Wall Street Journal readers cast their ballots online, and Montana’s Dancing Wind Ranch, listed by Jim Taylor of Hall and Hall, took top honors as the newspaper’s House of the Year. The results were announced…
Tagged with: Dancing Wind Ranch, Hall and Hall, House of the Year, Wall Street Journal
Posted in Agriculture, Cattle, Feature, Montana, News Desk, Residential Property, West
Posted in Agriculture, Cattle, Feature, Montana, News Desk, Residential Property, West
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