Some of the land he is about to buy is already protected with easements that preserve it as a working forest. Over the years, many of the 73-year-old media billionaires biggest deals, such as buying the Atlanta Braves, have helped his companies to cut their tax bills. This purchase made Malone a much wealthier man and it also gave AT&T the means to branch out beyond local phone service to offer high speed internet access too. In a filing last April, Liberty Global disclosed that a U.S. subsidiary will pay at least $7 billion in tax deductible interest to its new British parent over the next decade. He leapt ahead of Ted Turner in 2010 as the country's largest individual landowner in when he made the largest single ranch sale in more than a decade by purchasing the 290,100-acre Bell Ranch in New Mexico. This special publication examines the startup infrastructure in Maine and the resources available to help entrepreneurs at the various stages of the startup journey. Their response was they would, but it would expensive. You can try renaming that file to .htaccess-backup and refreshing the site to see if that resolves the issue. St. Pierre is among a number of Mainers wondering what Malones intentions are. RewriteRule . In this example the file must be in public_html/example/Example/. Secondly, the devaluation of U.S. dollar would seem to be pushing up the value of commodities and commodity-producing assets. He was down in the dumps last time I saw him because he said I still had a lot of dry power and he was pretty tapped out [laughs]. It's official: Jamal Murray, Nuggets are in Phoenix's heads now. It goes back-to-back with Teds [Turner] Vermejo Ranch. Such trusts permit wealthy individuals to avoid tax by using the tax-exempt status of their favorite charity. Please check your email to confirm and complete your registration. Malone made his fortune as a media tycoon, building the company Tele-Communications, Inc, or WebJohn Malone, a Colorado billionaire who earlier this year bought nearly 1 million acres of forestland in Maine, has been named the country's top landowner. I go east from him. The struggling cable company only had 400,000 subscribers and $12 million in annual sales. Malone gave what was described as a generous donation to the Boothbay Region Land Trust at one point to conserve the Ovens Mouth Preserve, next to his own property. Over the years, Malone has also acquired the companies previously mentioned as well as Virgin Media, QVC, Game Show Network, and more. The 2012 Land Report says Malone owns 2.2 million acres of land the equivalent of two Delawares. Work for ME is a workforce development tool to help Maines employers specifically target Maines emerging workforce. The 10 biggest landowners in the United States collectively own more than 13 million acres across the country thats more than 0.5% of America. Amazon founder and CEO Jeff Bezos is not only one of the richest men in the world, with a net worth of $190 billion at the time of this writing, but also he is one of the biggest private landowners in the United States.