Radar
Articles about trends and hot topics from around the land marketplace
Conservation Legacy: Adapting and Overcoming
While many organizations scrambled to create an online presence, the Conservation Legacy team drew from its extensive experience of delivering digital education. TWA has been using the Internet and videoconferencing to reach students across Texas since 2007.
Grazing Matters
Grazing is a powerful tool for improving the health of plants and the soil supporting them when it’s managed correctly.
Wildlife by Design: Bringing the Outdoors Inside Texas Schools
Conservation educators using hands-on experiential lessons bring the outdoors into classrooms—both urban and rural—across the state.
10 Biggest Ranches for Sale in America
As we head into the first quarter of 2019, here's our lineup of the ten biggest ranches currently for sale in America, representing over a million acres of land for sale!
10 Most Expensive Ranches for Sale in America
Heading into the first quarter of 2019, here's our quarterly roundup of the most expensive ranches and land currently listed for sale throughout the United States.
A Primer on Federal Takings
The lessons learned in South Texas as border wall construction proceeds is an ongoing case study of federal taking for landowners throughout the nation.
The Impact of Forestry in South Carolina
American Forest Management was born out of a passion for land and a desire to work with landowners. In fact, our company tagline is “We’re in this Together” because we know our work is all about relationships—the relationships between land utilization and conservation, the relationship between the landowner and property, and ultimately, the relationship between American Forest Management and the clients we serve.
Laborcitas Creek Ranch Receives 2018 Leopold Conservation Award® for Texas
At a time when Texas wild places face threats such as land ownership fragmentation and non-native invasive grasses, Laborcitas Creek Ranch shines as a beacon.
Sites We Like: Google Earth Engine
From aerial-imaging solutions to sophisticated 3D-modeling technology, today's real-estate customers have an array of tools at their fingertips to help them discover and visualize property for sale, including those in the land and rural real estate space.
The Border Wall: Protecting Our Country or Dividing Our Interests?
Because the far-reaching impacts of the proposed Border Wall can’t be accurately distilled into a sound bite, a headline or a Tweet, the Texas Wildlife Association is hosting “The Wall: Protecting Our Country or Dividing Our Interests?”
An Aerial State of the Union
We’ll leave discussion of the country’s direction and progress to the President and his Republican and Democratic counterparts. Instead, here’s an aerial view of the United States by a filmmaker who took a tour across this diverse and beautiful land to capture its best angles from a drone’s-eye view.
Wildfires Wage War on the Wild West
The wildfires that swept the Northwest Region of the United States this past summer will leave a lasting scar across the land and communities affected for years to come.
Airbnb Expands “Experiences” Program to Hawaii
Airbnb announced today the addition of a new “Hawaii experiences” program, extending coverage for its popular Trips platform to 50 markets around the world. The popular community-sharing site continues to enhance new economic opportunities for its network of hosts in more rural parts of the country.
Women in Forestry: Carolyn Mulligan and the Future of the Female Forester
Being relentlessly self-sufficient has been both a character trait and a hallmark of Carolyn's 32-year career as a forester.
Wreaths Across America: Honor the Sacrifice of Veterans this #GivingTuesday
This Giving Tuesday, consider a donation to Wreaths Across America, which is conducting its annual fundraiser for Wreaths Across America Day on December 16.
Good Fences, Good Neighbors: What You Need to Know About Fence Laws
Rural landowners know that fence issues can create extremely strained relationships among neighbors. Here's a guide to staying on the right side of the law.
Harnessing the Sun: A Solar Energy Primer for Farmers & Ranchers
Solar technology helps a Texas couple embrace efficiency and self-sufficiency on their ranch.
Land and its Many Changes
With changing market trends and product demand, landowners continue to reinvent their properties to better serve their need for an increase in returns.
What President Trump’s Executive Order on WOTUS Means for Real Estate and Land Owners
The Executive Order directs the EPA to begin a rewrite of the regulation to adhere more closely to the definition of “waters of the U.S.” under the Clean Water Act and provide a streamlined permitting process.
