Ted Turner in the news.....starting his own "natural parks"

[kansasdad]

CBS This Morning did a segment on ol' Ted, planing on turning his ranches into a pay to play tourism.

A snippet: https://www.facebook.com/share/r/19bvGBtRM4/

Full segment:

Ted Turner's nature preserves: A carefully curated "Heaven on Earth"

As one of the largest landholders in America, media mogul and philanthropist Ted Turner has over decades restored struggling species like the American Bison and rebuilt biodiversity on his two million acres. Now, Turner is opening some of his land to visitors, creating almost overnight what...

www.cbsnews.com

 

[Forkyfinder]

CBS This Morning did a segment on ol' Ted, planing on turning his ranches into a pay to play tourism.

A snippet: https://www.facebook.com/share/r/19bvGBtRM4/

Full segment:

Ted Turner's nature preserves: A carefully curated "Heaven on Earth"

As one of the largest landholders in America, media mogul and philanthropist Ted Turner has over decades restored struggling species like the American Bison and rebuilt biodiversity on his two million acres. Now, Turner is opening some of his land to visitors, creating almost overnight what...

www.cbsnews.com

Ultimately if it helps conserve habitat I'm good with it.

Just hard to stomach everything's for sale.

 

[hank4elk]

I watched it and thought it was a good piece. He has preserved a pile of land here in NM. Allows hunting and fishing along with other activities. Better than most big landowners. And he has owed these ranches for many years.

Now if your surprized someone can buy land in the US all I can say is at least he does it to protect it. And he's an American.

GW ranch is back on the market after a bidding war a few years ago. The biggest crap home builder in the US won the bid, $59 mil for 300,000 total acres. Half leased lands so 185,000 deeded.
Could be yours for $300mil. Good tax write off...LOL

I'd rather see it protected than drilled to crap or subdivided.

 

[Rie Bread]

As long as I can pay $20,000+ to shoot an elk I am all for it. More so if the paying tourists get to watch a hunter in the wild

 

[hank4elk]

Hell, hunts cost more than that around here. Reality sucks.

Been to both big NM ranches and very impressed with the operations. Wish I could stay there.

 

[Hem]

Ted has dementia..rather doubt he is doing diddly. But I bet his kids see $ signs.

 

[WildWill]

Ted has dementia..rather doubt he is doing diddly. But I bet his kids see $ signs.

I wouldn't be so sure a Trust properly managed can ensure one's vision continues long after their death. No matter how you feel about the guy I can't imagine he didn't have his affairs in order.

 

[Hem]

I wouldn't be so sure a Trust properly managed can ensure one's vision continues long after their death. No matter how you feel about the guy I can't imagine he did have his affairs in order.

As far as I know the trust prevents development. Ted was never about opening his land to make money, other than hunting. Now the kids have to figure out how to sustain all that land.
Speculation on my part.

 

[Southern Elk]

As far as I know the trust prevents development. Ted was never about opening his land to make money, other than hunting. Now the kids have to figure out how to sustain all that land.
Speculation on my part.

Most of his land is under conservation easement and will never be developed. Imagine what the Flying D would look like if it was sold and he hadn’t put it under conservation easement.

 

[Rie Bread]

I wouldn't be so sure a Trust properly managed can ensure one's vision continues long after their death. No matter how you feel about the guy I can't imagine he didn't have his affairs in order.

Doug Tompkins’s bought most of a region in a country and it’s a national park… so not impossible

 

[WildWill]

As far as I know the trust prevents development. Ted was never about opening his land to make money, other than hunting. Now the kids have to figure out how to sustain all that land.
Speculation on my part.

I can see that. Unfortunately I've seen firsthand the lengths people will go to circumvent a trust for a dollar bill.

 

[mtmuley]

Been to both big NM ranches and very impressed with the operations. Wish I could stay there.

Was able to see some of Vermejo Park. Incredible. mtmuley

 

[Gerald Martin]

I can’t believe anyone would waste all that money on buying up land and creating conservation properties when they could have spent it all on nightclubs, casinos, yachts and mansions.

 

[Bambistew]

I was hoping he'd donate to APR.

I can't fathom how people are against a conservation model for ranches. It seems like, unless you rape an pillage your land to make money, you're not a real rancher.

 

[DFS]

I was hoping he'd donate to APR.

I can't fathom how people are against a conservation model for ranches. It seems like, unless you rape a pillage your land to make money, you're not a real rancher.

The only reason there is still wildlife in Montana is because some ranchers have a conservation model.

 

[Hem]

I was hoping he'd donate to APR.

I can't fathom how people are against a conservation model for ranches. It seems like, unless you rape an pillage your land to make money, you're not a real rancher.

Yeah, 30 years ago most of the Gallatin valley(peons, like me) hated Ted. All you have to do is drive up Spanish creek and imagine the Yellowstone Club up there.
I have always admired him.
Said hi to him and Jane in the Museum once. They ignored me. That's ok.

 

[Bambistew]

The only reason there is still wildlife in Montana is because some ranchers have a conservation model.

How many of them like APR? Who's model is better? Haha

I know a lot of ranchers in MT, many are multigenerational MT ranchers. Three in my family are 6th gen MT ranchers. They have wild animals because they hate hunters more than the animals. Given the choice they'd shoot em all and save the grass for their cows.

 

[DFS]

How many of them like APR? Who's model is better? Haha

I know a lot of ranchers in MT, many are multigenerational MT ranchers. Three in my family are 6th gen MT ranchers. They have wild animals because they hate hunters more than the animals. Given the choice they'd shoot em all and save the grass for their cows.

6th generation? That’s impressive.

 

[shrapnel]

Ted is the second largest landowner in the U.S. 5th largest landowner in Montana…


5. 154,681 acres. Turner Enterprises Incorporate and Turner Ranch Properties, These are owned by Ted Turner, founder of Turner Broadcasting, CNN news outlets and Ted’s Montana Grill restaurants. According to a 2012 NY Times article, Turner is the 2nd largest land owner in the US and owns about 2 million acres across 12 states. In Montana, Turner owns the Flying D Ranch in the southwestern part of the state which encompasses the northern portion of the Spanish Peaks, stretching from the Gallatin to Madison rivers. Turner additionally owns the Snowcrest Ranch near Dillon and the Bar None near Maudlow.

 

[Straight Arrow]

The only reason there is still wildlife in Montana is because some ranchers have a conservation model.

Yes! Read BACK FROM THE BRINK, the great story of bringing wildlife, fisheries, waterfowl back from the near extinction in Montana during the era at the end of the Nineteenth Century. It chronicles the efforts of wildlife managers, citizens, and many, many ranchers in a huge conservation effort that has resulted in the strong health of many species today.
The stories of ranchers' involvement are particularly interesting as their attitude seemed to be opposite of alot of large landowners today.