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Green land is Forest Service, blue is state and yellow is BLM property. BILLINGS -- The big just keep getting bigger. Montanaâs largest private landowners â Dan and Farris Wilks â moved up six notches in an annual survey of the nationâs largest landowners. The Wilkses jumped to No. 22 on the recently released The Land Report 100, compiled by editor Eric OâKeefe and sponsored by Fay Ranches, a real-estate brokerage headquartered in Bozeman.
Land remains a hot investment, and America's wealthiest individuals are snapping up property at breakneck speed. The 100 biggest private landowners in the U.S. added 700,000 acres to their holdings in the past year, according to CNBC's Robert Frank. That means they now control more than 30 million acres, or 2% of America's land mass. The Land Report has just released its list of America's biggest private landowners for 2013. Media tycoon John Malone, who owns 2.2 million acres â more than twice as much land as the state of Delaware â tops the list for the third year running.