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The purchase also placed the Wilks high on the list of well-heeled landowners who are buying huge parcels of America. In the last decade, private land in the United States has become increasingly concentrated in the hands of a few. Today, just 100 families own about 42 million acres across the country, a 65,000-mile expanse, according to the Land Report, a magazine that tracks large purchases. Researchers at the magazine have found that the amount of land owned by those 100 families has jumped 50 percent since 2007
The Wilkes made their fortune in fracking and now own about 700,000 acres in Montana and Idaho.
These new landowners are now keeping those Idaho families that used to snowmobile, ski, hunt and fish off their properties. These families being affected now are not liberal types but conservatives who for generations used these lands or crossed them. In many cases, these landowners are denying access to public land as well. The natives are none to happy.
No one disputes that private land owners can keep trespassers off their land or what they are doing is illegal. These landowners are both liberal and conservatives. Regardless of ideology, their views are the same. Stay off!
The question here is it healthy for a nation to have a handful of families control all this land? What the ramifications for the future?
The Wilkes made their fortune in fracking and now own about 700,000 acres in Montana and Idaho.
These new landowners are now keeping those Idaho families that used to snowmobile, ski, hunt and fish off their properties. These families being affected now are not liberal types but conservatives who for generations used these lands or crossed them. In many cases, these landowners are denying access to public land as well. The natives are none to happy.
No one disputes that private land owners can keep trespassers off their land or what they are doing is illegal. These landowners are both liberal and conservatives. Regardless of ideology, their views are the same. Stay off!
The question here is it healthy for a nation to have a handful of families control all this land? What the ramifications for the future?
Yes. It is healthy. It means we have a country where people can spend their own money on whatever they want.
What is the alternative? Limiting how much land a person can own? That just seems really wrong to me.
Treebeard does not believe in ownership of property. What does that tell you about him? What ideology does that align with?
This is an idiotic statement. The story was in the news. If you have nothing intelligent to say or contribute, go back to sleep and leave this discussion to the adults
This is an idiotic statement. The story was in the news. If you have nothing intelligent to say or contribute, go back to sleep and leave this discussion to the adults
How much property tax revenue does 40 million acres of land produce?
And sure, I'll admit I was mistaken about my conclusion if you admit in writing that you are good with private citizens owning land.
This is an idiotic statement. The story was in the news. If you have nothing intelligent to say or contribute, go back to sleep and leave this discussion to the adults
What exactly is idiotic about the poster’s comment? My takeaway is also that you have an issue with land ownership.
I own property. I am fine with property ownership. I believe in it quite strongly. The story is in the news. If one can't start a thread on a controversial subject without being subject to outrageous insinuations, then what is the point. The OP is not about private property per se but the concentration of it in the hands of a few.
As I wrote in the OP it is not lilegal and it is not a pure liberal or conservative issue. All this is a discussion on an issue that is in the news
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