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- BUSINESS, Page 41Business NotesREAL ESTATETed's Home On the Range
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- When cable-TV titan Ted Turner bought a 110,000-acre Montana
- cattle ranch for $22 million earlier this month, his new neighbors
- suspected ulterior motives. They imagined that Turner, who earlier
- had bought 21,000 acres nearby, might carve up the scenic Rocky
- Mountain property for homesites or even sell part of it to a New
- Age cult.
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- But the Atlanta-based businessman denies any such intentions.
- He told a Bozeman town meeting last week that he would sell rights
- to hunt elk on his property and plans to replace the ranch's 3,000
- head of cattle with buffalo, which produce low-cholesterol meat.
- But Turner refuses to allow campers to cross his land. Says he: "I
- bought the place because I wanted to get away from people. We live
- in an increasingly overcrowded world, and I'm becoming a hermit."