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Impressive Snowpack Lifts Many States Out of Drought

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It’s not your imagination: the winter months have delivered a tremendous wallop of moisture, helping erase drought across most of the ...

Locked Out of the Land: Checkerboarding and Public Access in the American West

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The game of Checkers is child's play. But 'Checkerboarding,' a western phenomenon that describes the intermingling of private and public land as if on a gi...

The History of Black Cowboys

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While the Emancipation Proclamation did not immediately end slavery or provide equality for all races, there are examples in the West af...

Ranch owners look to creative solutions to address water shortages

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The good news is that currently nearly every Colorado ski area is reveling in above-average snow. And the U.S. Drought Monitor report of Jan. 19 shows 40% ...

Western winter festivals deliver thrills and chills, fire and ice, and plenty of fun

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LAY OF THE LAND

There’s no disputing that skiing and snowboarding dominate the West when the snow starts to fly. After all, the best ski areas in the ...

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Mirr Ranch Group Top 10 for 2022

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It’s only natural during the holidays to reflect on the past year. At Mirr Ranch Group we’ve been blessed in 2022 to learn so much about the West, whic...

Top 5 Most Popular Land Bulletin Podcast Episodes of 2022

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As we look back on 2022, we are proud of the successful launch of the inaugural season of the Land Bulletin Podcast. Every week, ranch broker Haley Mirr ho...

Balancing wildlife conservation with demand for outdoor recreation

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The outdoor recreation economy roared back to life in 2021. In fact, a U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis (BEA) report revealed that “inflation-adjusted GD...

Land Conservation: Colorado Gives Day & End of Year Charitable Giving Guide

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Colorado Gives Day is running now through December 6th this year. This is a special time in Colorado when a $1.4 Million Incentive Fund increases the value...

Attend the Young Guns ‘Rhinestone Rodeo’ to support western art, National Western Stock Show

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LAY OF THE LAND

The National Western Stock Show (Jan. 7-22, 2023) is one of the region’s preeminent events. The annual gathering in Denver has highlig...

Virtual Fencing Offers a Compelling Option for Cattle Ranchers

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There's no getting around one reality of cattle ranching in the West: you need a lot of fence. That said, it is possible for cattle to get around (and unde...

Agriculture Production in the West Remains Vital Despite Challenges

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LAY OF THE LAND

Agriculture is big business in the West. The 11 states in the Mountain and Pacific regions deliver $95 billion annually to markets. To p...

Must-Reads of the Week

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See what our brokers are reading, watching, and listening to this week.

Ranching Tech

Virtual fencing is an innovative technology that offer...

USDA’s 2022 Land Values Report shows strong growth, but there’s more to the story

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Recession? What recession?

It’s true that recent months have been filled with sobering statistics, such as declining Gross Domestic Product numbers, c...

Western Wildfires Are a Certainty, So Landowners Must Prepare

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LAY OF THE LAND | August 2022

The 2022 wildfire season in the West, since an enormous spring blaze in New Mexico, has been calm. But as recent years hav...

Cowboy Poetry Shares the Language of the West Through the Eyes of Those Who Live Closest to the Land

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The ethos of the West is the sum of many parts, from its stunning landscape to strong-willed inhabitants, especially its cowboys. Whether during cattle dri...

Yellowstone National Park Recovering from Destructive Storm

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LAY OF THE LAND | July 2022

It’s no secret that the West’s magnificent landscape is a major reason why the region is a magnet for both tourism and i...

Summer Festivals, Rodeos, Museums & Events Deliver Entertainment & Education About The West

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The best way to learn about the West is to hit the road and experience it first-hand. And now that school is done for the year and the days are longer, the...

Warmer Weather Brings Anglers to Streams and Lakes Around The West

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LAY OF THE LAND | June 2022

If you’re really gung-ho, any season is a good time to fly-fish. But the advent of warmer weather gets more anglers into t...

Evolving Western Stream Access Laws Impact Ranch Investments

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Stream access has a significant impact on the value of a ranch investment in the western U.S., especially for fly-fishing properties. The rights largely ar...

Cattle Ranching’s Challenges Also Offer Opportunities for The Entrepreneurial Investor

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Cattle ranching has been central to the western region’s economy since the 1850s. Although slowed by the Civil War, the industry exploded out of Texas in...

Pass Creek Ranch in Bloom

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As the Front Range goes from high temperatures to snow within the next 24 hours and the high country will see more significant accumulation, May weather ca...

Live: Conservation Updates with Erik Glenn of CCALT

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Special guest Erik Glenn, the Executive Director of Colorado Cattlemen's Agricultural Land Trust (CCALT) joins Ken and Haley to discuss the latest conserva...

Stay informed on news impacting ranchers & landowners

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LAY OF THE LAND | May 2022

We understand it’s hard to keep up with everything one needs to read. That’s why at Mirr Ranch Group we use alternative p...

Live: Ranches as an Investment

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Jeff Hubbard visited the show this week to discuss everything about ranches as an investment - from how we evaluate a property, to strategically approachi...

Conservation Easements at Risk in Nebraska

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A bill was recently introduced to the Nebraska Legislature prohibiting perpetual conservation easements (CEs), and local land trusts maintain the legislati...

New Legislation Leads to a Conservation Easements Boom in Colorado

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Conservation easements aren’t a new concept in the West. The state of Colorado launched a program in 2000 that enabled landowners to donate land to a cer...

‘Yellowstone’ is fun, but let us help you sort its fiction into ranch facts

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LAY OF THE LAND | April 2022

There’s no question that Yellowstone is a smash hit. After all, more than 9 million viewers tuned in for the final episod...

Live: Water in the West

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Water has become one of the most important topics in our line of work and will continue to be for some time. It not only affects ranch valuations but how w...

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