LandThink

Since the dawn of civilization, land ownership and its use have consumed human thought and driven our politics. In an important political year like 2012, the topic of land ownership is equally vital.

I am not going to work with every person that calls or emails me about buying land. Because time is our most precious and limited resource, land agents have to be selective about who we put in the truck and go look at properties with.

Last week I, along with fellow LandThink Contributors Jonathan Goode and Randall Upchurch had the opportunity to attend a RLI course at Mt. Cheaha State Park in Delta, Alabama called “Timberland: Identifying and Evaluating Timberland as an Investment”.

Technology is awesome. For example, the pinpoint accuracy of storm data can save a family in Kansas because they watched the radar and saw that a F-4 tornado was bearing right down on top of them so they fled and a good thing because their home was…

Likely you know the words to a famous American folk song written by Woody Guthrie. “This land is your land, this land is my land… This land was made for you and me.” Those words immediately sprang to mind when I read this headline in my Archdiocesan paper…