1 Billion to conservation?

[Oak]

I'd make every domestic sheep producer in W. Colorado an offer they couldn't refuse, and then I'd go back to the beach.

 

[rwc101]

I could have that unlimited gas card I always talk about.

Don't need a billion for that.

 

[bullbugle307]

Buy ranch, enroll ranch in long term conservation easement, sell ranch to the right buyers, rinse, lather, repeat...

 

[bullbugle307]

Better do a little tire kicking just to make sure they're "well heeled" while your at it...

Edit:supposed to be a reply to wllms comment on page 1.

 

[Gerald Martin]

So what you are saying is you would all act like billionaire landowners if you were a billionaire landowner…

You do realize that the lump sum is only like 600 mil? A billion doesn’t go as far as it used to.

I would pay off my mortgage. Figure out how to help some of the folks and causes meaningful to me. Travel a lot. Invest a lot.

 

[Ben Lamb]

So what you are saying is you would all act like billionaire landowners if you were a billionaire landowner…

You do realize that the lump sum is only like 600 mil? A billion doesn’t go as far as it used to.

I would pay off my mortgage. Figure out how to help some of the folks and causes meaningful to me. Travel a lot. Invest a lot.

 

[hank4elk]

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...but the 15k acres would be open to the public to hunt. That way I can still keep the peons off my 140.

 

[AvidIndoorsman]

Invest a lot.

There wouldn't be a dime left when I hit the dirt.

Did you miss out on this seminal work of American cinema depicting the difficulty of the task?

 

[Sytes]

All I can say is...

After that, I'm goin' fishin'.

 

[AvidIndoorsman]

I'd make every domestic sheep producer in W. Colorado an offer they couldn't refuse,

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This + bucket biology some G-bears into the SJs

 

[MtnElk]

Anyone else wondering what Hunt Talk Man would do here... Let's hope he shows up and delivers.

 

[Irrelevant]

I recently had a bit of time on my hands and thought about this.

I'd buy dilapidated properties in every eco type, restore them, then donate them back to the public. I'd keep busy actually trying to do the conservation work, or at least the contracting, bidding, designing, and construction admin, call that my "job". I'd start with tall grass in MN and short grass in MT.

 

[Ben Lamb]

This + bucket biology some G-bears into the SJs

They don't fit in buckets that you can carry, FYI.

 

[AvidIndoorsman]

They don't fit in buckets that you can carry, FYI.

I bet I could tow that with the Sub

 

[Irrelevant]

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I bet I could tow that with the Sub

what about a corrola?

 

[Ben Lamb]

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I bet I could tow that with the Sub

Crosstek or Outback?

 

[AvidIndoorsman]

what about a corrola?

... maybe

see he's the thing you gotta give your stable of lawyers some plausibility to work with...

It's plausible that you purchased a piece of land in Amarillo to use as a exotic bear sanctuary, and were just transporting bears from MT to TheUnBearableState, when the worst happened and you broke down in CO and they escaped.

Less plausible with a fire damaged corolla, with 3 years of east coast rust damage.

 

[AvidIndoorsman]

Crosstek or Outback?

What kinda commie do you take me for?

 

[BirdManMike]

Id probably end up blowing it all on Magic: The Gathering cards. Oh how I loathe my addiction to this paper crack.

 

[AvidIndoorsman]

Id probably end up blowing it all on Magic: The Gathering cards. Oh how I loathe my addiction to this paper crack.

Roll up with 4 alpha black lotus in your deck without sleeves