LINCOLN, Neb.—Media mogul and billionaire bison rancher Ted Turner is donating an 80,000-acre ranch he owns in western Nebraska to his own nonprofit agriculture ecosystem research institute and says he might do the same with four other ranches in Nebraska’s Sand Hills. But he’ll continue to pay taxes on the land, much to the relief of local officials and Nebraska leaders, the Omaha World-Herald reported Thursday. “I believe that local property taxes provide essential support for services on which our ranches and communities depend,” Turner, 82, said in a news release last week announcing the new institute. “The Institute will continue to pay its share of taxes to support the local communities.” State officials had feared Turner—Nebraska’s largest landowner with nearly 500,000 acres of western Nebraska ranchland—might turn over the land to a nonprofit and remove vast tracts of land from property tax rolls. The prospect of such a large …
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