The rhetoric keeps ramping up surrounding the future of Plum Island at the eastern edge of Long Island. Two years ago, Homeland Security declared that in advance of shuttering the Plum Island Animal Disease Center in 2023, the entire island…
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New York’s Plum Island to Fetch $1 Billion?
Posted in Conservation, Developers, Feature, Federal Policy, New York, News Desk, Northeast, Public Land
Land’s Best Friend: Time to Up the Ante
Take your puppy to the next level with these simple steps. — Henry Chappell If you have followed my advice on starting your puppy off by working on the basics, your pup sits on command and stays for half a…
Posted in Dogs, Feature, Great Lakes, Great Plains, Henry Chappell, Midwest, Northeast, Pacific, South, Southwest, West
U.S. Interior, Justice Departments to Settle with Tribes
The United States Department of the Interior along with the Department of Justice have agreed to a proposed $940 million settlement to resolve a quarter-century-old legal dispute with Native American tribes. At issue: costs for programs the federal government mandated…
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Kelo Postmortem
A decade has passed since the Rehnquist Court’s “intellectually unsound” decision in Kelo v. City of New London. On June 23, 2005, a team of attorneys for the Institute for Justice (IJ), a nonprofit libertarian public interest law firm, was…
Tagged with: City of New London, Kelo, Property rights
Posted in Connecticut, Corinne Garcia, Developers, Feature, Federal Policy, News Desk, Northeast, Public Land, Residential Property
Posted in Connecticut, Corinne Garcia, Developers, Feature, Federal Policy, News Desk, Northeast, Public Land, Residential Property
Jack Ma Buys Brandon Park
The Chinese billionaire has conservation plans for the 28,100-acre property. Jack Ma, the Chinese billionaire and cofounder of e-commerce giant Alibaba, has quietly made a new acquisition: a 28,100-acre property boasting trout streams, woodlands and a maple syrup operation in…
Tagged with: Adirondacks, Alibaba, Brandon Park, Jack Ma
Posted in Conservation, Feature, New York, News Desk, Northeast, Public Land
Posted in Conservation, Feature, New York, News Desk, Northeast, Public Land
2014 Land Report Best Brokerage: LandVest
LandVest www.landvest.com (617) 723-1800 2014 Sales: > $500 Million Who: “LandVest’s brokerage business manages the disposition, planning, and marketing of investment-grade timberland properties on behalf (and to) institutional investors and high-net-worth families. We specialize in the largest and most complex…
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The Land Report Top Ten: Fall 2015
The aggregate value of the nation’s leading listings? More than $1.6 billion! – The Editors 1. Waggoner Ranch (Texas): $725 million Sam Middleton of Chas. S. Middleton and Son is broker of record on this record-setting 510,527-acre listing. Bernard Uechtritz…
Posted in Agriculture, California, Cattle, Equestrian, Farming, Feature, Florida, Hunting, Massachusetts, New York, News Desk, Northeast, Pacific, Recreation, Residential Property, South, Southwest, Texas, Water
2014 Land Report Best Brokerage: LandLeader
LandLeader www.landleader (844) 281-4301 2014 Sales: > $500 Million Who: Marketing and listing service specializing in promoting land, ranches, recreational properties, farms, waterfront properties, and hunting land. Wow: In its very first year, LandLeader membership grew to over 170 land…
Posted in Agriculture, Auctions, Cattle, Colorado, Conservation, Equestrian, Farming, Feature, Great Plains, Hunting, Midwest, Minerals, Northeast, Pacific, Recreation, Residential Property, South, Southwest, Timber, Water, West
Land Report September 2015 Newsletter
While the U.S. economy suffers through starts and stops, land sales and land listings keep humming along. Here are some of the September newsletter’s highlights: A key timberland sale in Florida; A potential $1 billion listing off Long Island; A $5 million…
Tagged with: Gunnison sage-grouse, John Hickenlooper, Long Island, San Francisco Bay, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service
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High Court Strikes Down Federal Program
A majority of justices sided with raisin farmer Marvin Horne in his battle against a federal program created to keep excess raisins off the market. Chief Justice John Roberts wrote the 8-1 decision, with the court’s more conservative justices assenting.…
Tagged with: raisins
Posted in Agriculture, California, Feature, Federal Policy, Great Lakes, Great Plains, Midwest, News Desk, Northeast, Pacific, South, Southwest, West
Posted in Agriculture, California, Feature, Federal Policy, Great Lakes, Great Plains, Midwest, News Desk, Northeast, Pacific, South, Southwest, West
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