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TABLE OF CONTENTS:
1. Expert Opinion: Energy Opportunities for Land Owners
2. Hunting Leases - Just the Basics
3. Famous Farmers: Beatrix Potter
4. Recent Properties
The Western Governors Association and the US Federal Government are studying making Arizona a solar-energy "colony" for 11 other states. The Governors are considering how much of the West's land could be set aside (zoned) to accommodate the massive plants and other facilities required to deliver sun and wind power.
Under California law, PG&E needs to get 20% of its electricity from renewable sources (not including big hydro) by 2010. Stirling Energy Systems has recently applied to build "Solar One" an 850 MW power plant in the Mojave Desert 30 miles east of Barstow, California.
The Mojave desert is one of the world's best spots for solar power. The Solar One project will occupy about 8,230 acres when both Phases are complete. Brightsource Energy has been contracted by PG&E to deliver 500 MW and has submitted an application to build 3 new solar-thermal power plants, also in the Mojave.
Just two of the windiest states, North Dakota and South Dakota, have the potential to generate half the nation's electricity from wind turbines. Large-scale wind farms planned for the Great Plains on the back burner for years are now under the spotlight. Unfortunately given the national grid configuration half the country would have to move to the Dakotas in order to use the power.
In the northeast, Maple Ridge Wind farm invested $320 million in upstate New York installing 200 wind turbines, Unfortunately regional electric lines are so congested, Maple Ridge is continuously being forced to shut down. According to federal figures, electrical generation is growing four times faster than transmission.This is about to change.
In many parts of the nation land values will be impacted significantly by renewable energy development. The grid today comprises 200,000 miles of aging power lines owned by 500 different companies. Big transmission upgrades in America involve multiple companies and most state governments. Rural land owners in windy, sunny places need to understand America's new energy policy. Most States government web sites have good information about what is being planned.
Changes to the grid create opportunities for property owners. For the first time American land owners will be able to establish renewable energy resources along the new grid and sell power into a national system. Thousands of square miles of land considered to be of little value just a few months ago will be sought after by a new generation of 'power' brokers.
Phil Robinson is Lead Strategist for LandMerchants.ca, a real estate marketing company that specializes in marketing recreational land and homesites on the web since 1996.
Leasing your land to hunters is a good way to generate extra income. But land owners should know that hunters, just like other tenants, should be under a lease.
We aren't lawyers and we'd expect you to have a lawyer or other professional help you out with this, but we found some resources on the web that can get you started on what goes into a hunting lease.
The Alabama Cooperative Extension Service has an older document online (from 1994 it appears) that is a pretty good summary of what should go into a hunting lease.
About.com also has a pretty good page on hunting leases for forest owners, including a sample lease document.
Howstuffworks.com has a few appropriately titled pages on How Hunting Leases Work.
We think that should get you started!
Children's author Beatrix Potter, who created characters like Peter Rabbit and Tom Kitten, used royalties from her first writing sales to buy not one, but two, 17th century farms in Cumbria, which is a county in northwest England (http://www.visitcumbria.com/amb/hilltop.htm).
Potter bought her first farm, Hill Top, in 1905, which she visited often, but never lived in full-time. When she was not at Hill Top, which she often used as the scenery in her stories, Potter lived in London.
Four years later, Potter bought nearby Castle Farm, where she often worked. Characters like Jemima Puddleduck and Tom Kitten were created at Castle Farm.
Over the years, Potter bought several more farms in Cumbria, including Castle Cottage, where she moved in 1913 after marrying William Heelis.
Potter kept the landscaping of her home consistent with tradition. "Old-fashioned" flowers like honeysuckle, peonies and lavender grew in the yard and roses surrounded the front door. Even today, Castle Cottage's gardens are still active with strawberries, raspberries, currants, gooseberries and rhubarb growing. It would be enough produce to keep Peter Rabbit happy.
Potter died in 1943 and left her Hill Top home to the National Trust, with one condition: It had to be kept how she left it, including keeping her furniture and china. Today, Potter's fans visit Hill Top, making it one of Cumbria's top tourist attractions.
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Sample of Recent Properties
40 Ac In Flagler County (pasture) 40 acres.
Bunnell, Florida
240 Ac 20 Min To The Beach (residential land) 240 acres.
Bunnell, Florida
216 Acres Big Bucks Hunting (hunting property) 216 acres.
Ottumwa, Iowa
253 Acres Charlton County,GA (forest - planted) 253 acres.
Georgia
2.5 Acre Deepwater Lot (waterfront) 3 acres.
Georgia
Rustic Home In Country Setting (residential land) 28 acres.
McKenzie, Tennessee
44 Acre Cooks Dream (organic uses) 44 acres.
North Carolina
MH on 3 Ac just N Of The Gulf (residential land) 3 acres.
Steinhatchee, Florida
Private Equestrian Estate (horse farm) 12 acres.
Stillwater, New Jersey
266 Lunenburg County Virginia (forest - planted) 266 acres.
Victoria, Virginia
Edgewater Lake Front Golf Comm (waterfront) 15 acres.
LANCASTER, South Carolina
300 Acres Into Tracts (forest - natural) 300 acres.
Strunk, Kentucky
Lovely And Rolling (horse farm) 26 acres.
Red Boiling Springs, Tennessee
The Home Place (recreational property) 40 acres.
Georgia
Hunting Propertytn (hunting property) 43 acres.
McKenzie, Tennessee
6.48 Private Sanctuary Nc (residential land) 6 acres.
North Carolina
Africa Game Cattle Sheep Farm (livestock operation) 4,192 acres.
Humansdorp, Eastern Cape, South Africa
Fifteen Mile (recreational property) 40 acres.
Marietta, Ohio
Wonderful Acreage (horse farm) 38 acres.
Minden , New York
2.50 AC UNFINISH CABIN, BARN,CK,PASTURE (residential land) 3 acres.
GAINESBORO, Tennessee
Oceanfront Real Estate Auction (waterfront) 5 acres.
Ocean Isle Beach, North Carolina
64 Ac. Farm On Buffalo River (residential land) 64 acres.
Summertown, Tennessee
Pretty 60 Acre Farm (residential land) 60 acres.
Looneyville, West Virginia
River Log Cabin Furnished (waterfront)
Moorefield, West Virginia
Commerical - Industrial Property (commercial land) 28 acres.
Washington, Georgia
Tillable or Development (row crops) 353 acres.
Russell, Kansas
Trout Fishing Getaway on the Cumberland (recreational property) 1 acre.
Burkesville, Kentucky
4.6 Ac Perry Cty Ohio (residential land) 5 acres.
Junction City, Ohio
Build Your Adirondack Camp (residential land) 7 acres.
Russia , New York
Wooded Home Site (recreational property) 19 acres.
Oppenheim, New York
25 Ac w/ 2 Lakes Perry Cty OH (residential land) 25 acres.
Junction City, Ohio
Tatman Coe (recreational property) 101 acres.
McDermott, Ohio
Magificent Distant Views (residential land) 28 acres.
Schuyler , New York
Exceptional Site (pasture) 28 acres.
Boonville, New York
274 Ac Retreat On The Santa Fe River (waterfront) 274 acres.
High Springs, Florida
Auction 56 Ac. Wv Farm (horse farm) 56 acres.
Alderson, West Virginia
Going Green (alternative energy) 12 acres.
Cherry Valley, New York
45 Acres Abolute Auction (horse farm) 45 acres.
Princeton, Kentucky
Goolsby On Pea Ridge Road (recreational property) 408 acres.
Georgia
Idyllic Country Scenery (historic) 216 acres.
Otego, New York
Historic Village Jewel (historic) 7 acres.
Morris, New York
Home On 5 Wooded Acres (residential land) 5 acres.
Eminence, Missouri
Pea Ridge Farm (hunting property) 198 acres.
Jasper, Alabama
Auction New Mexico Dev Land (commercial land) 124 acres.
Eagle Nest, New Mexico
View Home in Leona Valley (orchard) 3 acres.
Leona Valley, California
15 Acres ,4bd Home and Barn (hunting property) 15 acres.
Pottstown, Pennsylvania
Union Chapel Road North (recreational property) 119 acres.
Georgia
Minifarm (residential land) 25 acres.
Hohenwald, Tennessee
Beautiful 13.5 Acres (commercial land) 14 acres.
Burlington, North Carolina
Paradise Valley U1 B123 Lot 4 (undeveloped land) 20 acres.
Winnemucca/Paradise Hill, Nevada
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