Montana
Asking $72 Million: A Private Island on Montana’s Flathead Lake
A non-public island on Flathead Lake in western Montana is coming in the marketplace for $72 million.
Spanning round 350 acres, Cromwell Island incorporates an unfinished villa measuring roughly 45,000 sq. ft, in response to itemizing agent Invoice McDavid of Corridor and Corridor.
The vendor is Anne Brockinton Lee, widow of Robert M. Lee, the founding father of the bags and leather-based items retailer Searching World. The couple purchased Cromwell Island within the Nineteen Eighties, Mrs. Lee stated.
The island incorporates an unfinished, roughly 45,000-square-foot villa.
Corridor and Corridor
The property additionally has a roughly 5,000-square-foot visitor home.
Corridor and Corridor
The island is on Flathead Lake, the most important freshwater lake west of the Mississippi River. The property has a dock with 5 boat slips.
Corridor and Corridor
The Lees found the island, which has about 3 miles of shoreline, throughout a fishing journey, she stated. Driving from British Columbia to their house in Reno, Nev., they stopped at Flathead Lake and began properties. When their agent requested if they might think about an island, “we went, ‘Bingo!” Mrs. Lee recalled.
She stated she didn’t recall how a lot they paid in 1989 for the island, which had three separate homeowners on the time. Additionally they bought a house on the mainland of Flathead Lake, and supposed the island to be a nature protect. However after shopping for a ship and spending extra time within the space, Mrs. Lee stated they drew up plans for a full-time residence with 5 bedrooms on the island that they might fill with antiques; Mr. Lee was an avid vintage, gun and automotive collector. A part of the imaginative and prescient included driving his 1929 Mannequin A truck and different vehicles across the island, she stated.
Mrs. Lee stated her husband, being the “sensible, eccentric man” that he was, wished the home to have the ability to stand up to storms and earthquakes. As a substitute of wooden framing, the home is made from poured concrete and clad in Montana limestone. It has a terra-cotta tile roof and mahogany home windows and doorways with stable brass hinges. The island additionally has a 5,000-square-foot guesthouse and a big dock with 5 slips, together with one that may accommodate a 70-foot boat.
The Lees introduced energy to the island by way of underwater cables, and there’s a backup generator able to producing off-grid energy for 8 to 12 weeks. Additionally they excavated area for an underground taking pictures vary between the villa and the guesthouse.
The outside of the principle home is now accomplished, however the inside isn’t. Mrs. Lee stated by the late Nineteen Nineties the couple wished a break from the challenge, which had develop into a full-time job. In 1999, the 12 months Mr. Lee bought 80% of Searching World, they purchased a house in Lake Tahoe and moved there full-time. “We began having a lot enjoyable at Lake Tahoe that we type of didn’t look again,” she stated. He later bought the remainder of the corporate, though Mrs. Lee wouldn’t say the value.
Mr. Lee died in 2016. Following her husband’s loss of life, Mrs. Lee stated it’s an excessive amount of of an enterprise for her to finish the home on Cromwell Island, which she stated is “too immense” for one individual. Her main house is in Reno, the place the couple’s 200-plus automotive assortment is situated. She has bought the Lake Tahoe home however nonetheless has properties in Charleston, S.C., and New York, in addition to a working cattle ranch in Montana and property on Flathead Lake’s mainland.
Flathead Lake is the most important pure freshwater lake within the contiguous U.S. west of the Mississippi. Spanning roughly 200 sq. miles, the lake has about 185 miles of shoreline dotted with log cabins in addition to bigger properties that promote for tens of millions of {dollars}.
Former NBA participant and coach Phil Jackson has a home on Flathead Lake, and in 2018, billionaire Ron Burkle paid $10.5 million for Shelter Island, a 22-acre non-public island on the lake.
Though Shelter Island is seen from Cromwell Island, Mr. McDavid stated it’s not a comparable sale since it’s a lot smaller, and traded earlier than property values skyrocketed through the pandemic. He stated over the previous 12 months, the common sale value for lakefront properties was slightly below $3 million, and the common dimension of bought property was 3.13 acres. The costliest sale was $21 million, he stated, including that there’s nothing else “of this magnitude” on the lake.
Mr. McDavid stated a potential purchaser may alter the ground plan of the Lees’ home and preserve it as a single-family home, or discover one other use for it.
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Week Six Of Summer Giveaway Fun In Montana!
We are so excited to be teaming up with our friends over at Kenyon Noble and having our annual 100 Days Of Summer event.
The most asked question during this event is: “What are the prizes?!” Hold your horses, my friends, I am about to show you. Every week I will let you know what is up for grabs that week and how you can get qualified to win. Hint hint…you will have multiple opportunities to score these prizes.
Week Six Prize:
Weber Q 1200 Grill
Go hiking in nature with a grill as vibrant as the scenery. Travel on or off the beaten path, camp in the woods or near the water. Explore the world with big taste and your Q 1200 portable gas grill by your side.
With Kenyon Noble’s garden center open, you will be able to find all of the most colorful flowers you desire. They even have starter plants for peppers, peas, tomatoes and more. You can grab all the supplies you need for your home or garden, or shop at Kenyon Noble.
Every week we will let you know what prize is up for winning and how you can quickly get in on the fun. All you have to do is, download the XL Country App so you are on top of our 100 Days of Summer Code Words, listen for the keyword, and then enter it in. That’s it! You can also enter your key word below! Good Luck!
cc: Kenyon Noble, Kenyon Noble Summer 2024
The Best “Old School” Diners In Montana
For those who love a walk down memory lane, Montana has more than a couple of “Old School” diners that have been serving locals and visitors across The Treasure State for decades. We take a look at the very best.
Gallery Credit: Derek Wolf
Montana
Court Halts Massive Illegal Old Growth Logging Project in Montana's Little Belt Mountains
On June 27, 2024, a federal court halted an illegal logging project on federal public lands in the Little Belt Mountains of Montana.
The Alliance for the Wild Rockies and Native Ecosystems Council filed their lawsuit to stop the Horsefly project in the Helena-Lewis and Clark National Forest in April 2021. The project called for cutting and burning trees on 10,343 acres, which is more than 16 square miles. To enable the logging, the agency planned on bulldozing a stunning 40.7 miles of new logging roads in the Little Belt Mountains north of White Sulphur Springs, Montana.
The scope of the massive Horsefly landscape-altering proposal is alarming and because the project violated federal law, it had to be enjoined.
The Forest Service used a number of euphemisms in a transparent attempt to disguise what used to be more honestly called logging. For instance, the agency called 3,278 acres of commercial logging ‘intermediate treatment,’ 1,049 acres of clearcutting ‘regeneration harvest,’ 409 acres of clearcutting and possible burning ‘meadow restoration,’ and 465 acres of non-commercial logging ‘rearrangement of fuels’. They’re ‘rearranging’ them alright: from forest ecosystems to stump fields.
This is an ecosystem, not a private tree farm, and so we have to maintain the habitat for sensitive wildlife species. One of those species is the northern goshawk, which has been declining in population, and which the forest plan lists as an old-growth forest management indicator species. Due to the importance of this species, the law requires 100% of goshawk nets to be monitored annually.
In 2018, the entire Forest was surveyed for goshawks and the Forest Service found an alarming 47% decline in active goshawk nests, which the agency failed to disclose to the public in violation of the National Environmental Policy Act and the National Forest Management Act. The agency also ignored its own Forest Plan requirement to issue an evaluation report if active nests decline by 10%.”
The Court’s ruling was very straightforward on the failure of the Forest Service to follow the law. As the Order reads: “The Court agrees with Alliance that the Forest Service’s failure to disclose and evaluate the decline in active goshawk nesting territories violated both NFMA and NEPA. . . . Federal Defendants all but concede that the Forest Service’s failure to disclose the decrease in active goshawk nesting territories to the public in the EA and failure to comply with the Forest Plan requirement to conduct an evaluation report if active nests decline by 10% amounts to a violation of NFMA.” Yet the Forest Service continues to log the last remaining mature and old growth forests and goshawks are in trouble.
The Court’s order remanded the project authorization to the agency, and enjoined the project pending compliance with federal law. We follow the law every day, and the Forest Service must also follow the law. When a government agency violates the law, it must be held accountable in court. It’s not easy to fight the federal government, which has far more resources than we do, but nonetheless we are committed to making the government follow its own laws to protect our native wildlife and public land ecosystems. Despite attacks by politicians, intimidation tactics, and misinformation campaigns, we won’t be stopped. We are determined to continue with this critical work.
Please consider helping us continue to fight to protect old growth forests and make the Forest Service follow the law.
Montana
Search underway for a missing boater in Flathead Lake
MISSOULA — The search for a boater in trouble on Flathead Lake continues.
Lake County Sheriff Don Bell has identified the missing person as 34-year-old Chad Hansen from Missoula.
He was last seen in the area north of Little Bull Island and south of Safety Bay.
Hansen became separated from his boat and witnesses who tried to help him weren’t able to.
Based on the accounts gathered from witnesses it is believed that he has died of drowning, a news release states.
Teams from Lake County, Flathead County, Missoula County, and Kootenai County, Idaho, are searching Flathead Lake in an effort to find Hansen.
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