Paradise Valley man has sustainable vision for his land

Wade Dokken admires Ted Turner, the flamboyant billionaire environmentalist who has preserved hundreds of thousands of acres of private land in the United States, simply by buying it and banning development.

"But not everybody can be Ted Turner," Dokken said recently as he led a tour of a pretty impressive piece of land he’s purchased in Paradise Valley.

So Dokken has another idea, one that hasn’t been implemented before in Montana. Dokken’s goal is to preserve and enhance most of the 11,000-acre sweep of open meadows, Douglas fir forests, vertical limestone cliffs and aspen stands he owns today. The property south of Livingston, once known as the Bullis Creek Ranch, rises 4,000 feet, from the floor of Paradise Valley to the top of Wineglass Mountain.

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