Interesting....very interesting! If you're like me, you've never thought about the fact that companies and people own this much land.

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I stumbled across a list put together by World Population Review earlier this year. This list names the largest landowner in each state.

Like I said, I knew that people buy houses with a lot of land and that businesses buy acreage for their own purposes - but not this much!

I am surprised by the largest private landowner in Minnesota...

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Why? Because it's a company based in a different state! Molphus Woodlands Group owns about 286,000 acres in the state of Minnesota.

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Instead, the company is based in Ridgeland, Mississippi! They buy, sell and lease land all over the country. They call themselves one of the oldest timber-related companies in the country.

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However, they do have a Minnesota office. The office is located in International Falls. I guess this is a little Minnesota connection but it's still interesting they are located in a different state.

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They also have offices in Alabama, Arkansas, New York and Texas, among others. According to the Minnesota DNR, about seventy-percent of lands in Minnesota are privately-owned.

Breaking that down even further, the Department Of Natural Resources itself manages about five-point-six million acres, making up another good portion of the land in the state. I have never paid much attention to things like this. It's pretty interesting!

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