Word: ranches
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...broiling day in August almost a decade later, Shakur offers me a tour of her newly constructed ranch home in Lumberton, N.C. She shows off a bathroom the size of a small apartment and talks up the 56 acres of farmland where she's growing USDA-certified organic crops and raising animals. That is what her son has left her. And it's easy to see what she gave him. She is excitable and charismatic, and she talks--and curses--freely, laughing in the middle of crying. In the late '60s, Shakur was one of the more outspoken black power...
...leasing the subsurface rights of those so-called split estates at an unprecedented pace to energy companies. Wyoming's abundance of gas reserves makes it especially attractive. The state's citizens have lived through energy booms--and busts--before. But while oil and gas jobs came and went, the ranch remained. This time, ranchers say, the boom risks ruining the land that has always sustained them for the easy-come, easy-go riches below...
Even if that protection holds up, it may not be enough to restore what many ranchers have already lost. Donley Darnell, 58, owner of 64,000 acres of ranch land near Newcastle in northeastern Wyoming, appreciates the royalty checks he gets, but he doesn't see why Wyoming's landowners should subsidize the energy industry for a few thousand dollars a year. And come the next bust, those payments may vanish instantly. The scars on their land...
...President himself is unchanged, say people who spend private hours with him, even as he gears up for the stretch run of the midterm-election campaign, which has Republicans more worried than they have been in a dozen years. His traditional summer sojourn at his ranch was cut from a month to nine days, but he dived into the gritty, sweaty labor that he loves. Each week aides put a new photo album on a credenza outside the door to the Oval Office for the President and visitors to savor; the current edition features Bush in T shirt, ball...
...says. "It was late afternoon, and in the fading sunlight the snow-capped top of Grand Teton looked like molten gold." Floor-to-ceiling window walls ensure guests also enjoy this glittering view. Perched on a butte in Teton Valley and set among the sprawling acres of Spring Creek Ranch, the hotel stands apart from other five-star resorts clustered in the nearby ski village...