“I consider the whole planet my home,” the founder of CNN and one-time largest private landowner in the US once told AD. But where did Ted Turner live before his death on May 6, 2026, at the age of 87? The media mogul, who launched the first 24-hour news station in 1980 and called it his “greatest achievement,” spent his final years living on one of his Montana ranches, where he enjoyed fishing. A conservationist and environmentalist, he once owned the most land in the United States, and was still one of the country’s top landowners at the time of his death, with roughly 2 million acres to his name and an estimated net worth of $2.8 billion, per Forbes . The majority of his land was spread across numerous sprawling ranches located in Nebraska, Colorado, Kansas, Montana, New Mexico, and South Dakota, as well as Argentina. Turner was also the owner of the largest privately managed bison herd in the country, numbering over 51,000, according to CNN .…