Albuquerque, NM (KKOB) — Media mogul and conservationist Ted Turner died at age 87 on Wednesday. He was once New Mexico’s largest landowner, with around 1.1. million acres spread across three huge properties, which he saw as integral to his conservation work. He purchased his first ranch in New Mexico west of Truth of Consequences in 1992, about a decade after founding CNN in Atlanta, Georgia. He called the 156,000-acre ranch Ladder, which remains home to bison, elk, Mexican wolf and hundreds of bird species. He subsequently added two other major holdings to his New Mexico portfolio, including the 550,000-acre Vermejo Park Ranch near Raton in northern New Mexico and Armendaris Ranch, which comprises 360,000 acres of Chihuahuan Desert near the state’s border with Mexico.
