In 1989, media billionaire Ted Turner bought the 113,613-acre Flying D ranch in Montana, removed its cattle and hundreds of miles of internal barbed-wire fencing, and shifted the land to bison — 37 years later, the property supports about 4,500 of them.

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1. Tue, 1 September 2026

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   • spacedaily.com07:00first to report
     In 1989, media billionaire Ted Turner bought the 113,613-acre Flying D ranch in Montana, removed its cattle and hundreds of miles of internal barbed-wire fencing, and shifted the land to bison — 37 years later, the property supports about 4,500 of them.

     A massive Montana ranch shows how rewilding on billionaire-scale might reshape western land—and what gets left behind in the trade-offs.

2. Thu, 3 September 2026

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   • indiatimes.com03:50
     In 2021, Ted Turner gave nearly 80,000 acres of prairie to his ecoagriculture institute; it is now a living laboratory for bison and wetlands

     In 2021, Ted Turner handed nearly 80,000 acres of prairie in Nebraska and South Dakota to the Turner Institute of Ecoagriculture, turning McGinley Ranch into a vast testing ground for conservation and sustainable land management. The 79,292-acre property lies in the Northern Sandhills, where rolling dunes, native grasslands, wetlands and shallow lakes form one of North America’s most distinctive prairie landscapes.