Turner purchases more grazing land in Nebraska

The North Platte Telegraph :

A decade ago, billionaire bison rancher Ted Turner said his appetite for buying more grazing land in Nebraska was likely satisfied.But now the state’s largest private landowner, and second-largest individual landowner in the U.S., has surprised some people by purchasing another Sandhills ranch, putting his holdings in Nebraska past the half-million-acre mark.Turner’s ranching enterprise recently bought the 15,055-acre Kime Ranch, a Sandhills spread surrounded on three sides by other ranches owned by the founder of CNN, including the first property he bought in Nebraska 23 years ago, the Spikebox Ranch.With the purchase, that ranch now encompasses 141,149 acres, and his seven holdings in Nebraska total 506,935 acres, the Omaha World-Herald reported. That is area more than twice the size of Douglas County.