Editing Ted Turner (section)

==Turner Enterprises==
[[File:Luckie St. Solar Panels.jpg|thumb|Turner Building Solar Array]]
'''Turner Enterprises, Inc.''' (TEI) is a private American company that was founded in 1976 and manages the business interests, land holdings and investments of Ted Turner,<ref name="auto">{{Cite web|url=https://www.tedturner.com/about/|title=About – Turner Enterprises|website=Tedturner.com|access-date=2020-01-28}}</ref> including the oversight of Turner's 24 properties across the United States and Argentina. At two million acres of personal and ranch land, Turner is the second-largest landowner in North America.<ref name="auto1">{{Cite web|url=https://www.tedturner.com/turner-ranches/turner-ranches-faq/|title=Turner Ranches FAQ – Turner Enterprises|website=Tedturner.com|access-date=2020-01-28}}</ref> He owned 19 ranches – 16 in the western U.S. and three in Argentina.<ref name="auto1"/> In January 2016, the [[Osage Nation]] bought Turner's 43,000 acre (170&nbsp;km<sup>2</sup>) Bluestem Ranch in [[Osage County, Oklahoma]]. Turner had purchased the property in 2001 primarily to raise bison.{{citation needed|date=October 2022}}

Through Turner Enterprises, he owns ranches in [[Colorado]],  [[Kansas]], [[Montana]], [[Nebraska]], [[New Mexico]], [[Oklahoma]], and [[South Dakota]].<ref name="tturner">{{cite web|author=Tribune staff|year=2009|title=125 Montana Newsmakers: Ted Turner|url=http://www.greatfallstribune.com/multimedia/125newsmakers5/turner.html|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110711123901/http://www.greatfallstribune.com/multimedia/125newsmakers5/turner.html|archive-date=July 11, 2011|access-date=August 28, 2011|work=Great Falls Tribune}}</ref><ref name="enterprises1">{{cite web|title=Ranches|url=http://www.tedturner.com/enterprises/ranches_Template.asp?page=ranches_faq.html|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090430103340/http://www.tedturner.com/enterprises/ranches_Template.asp?page=ranches_faq.html|archive-date=April 30, 2009|access-date=March 29, 2009|publisher=Ted Turner}}</ref> Totaling {{convert|1910585|acre|km2}}, his land-holdings across America make Turner one of the largest individual landowners in North America (by acreage).<ref name="enterprises1" />

TEI ranches are primarily used for bison ranching. His bison herd, approximately 51,000 animals on 15 ranches, is the largest private herd in the world.<ref name="auto1" /> The company's mission statement is "To manage Turner lands in an economically sustainable and ecologically sensitive manner while promoting the conservation of native species."<ref name="auto1" /> Other important wildlife species on the property include whitetail deer, wild turkey and bobwhite quail.<ref name="Morgan">{{cite news|last=Morgan|first=Rhett|date=February 3, 2016|title=Osage Nation set to buy Ted Turner-owned Bluestem Ranch in Osage County|website=Tulsa World|url=http://www.tulsaworld.com/news/state/osage-nation-set-to-buy-ted-turner-owned-bluestem-ranch/article_6be16608-a1e3-502e-a9c7-c77218db023e.html|access-date=April 7, 2017}}</ref> In addition to bison ranching, TEI ranches are also used for commercial fishing and hunting, as well as limited sustainable timber harvesting, as well as eco-tourism on the New Mexico ranches.<ref name="auto1"/> His biggest ranch is [[Vermejo Park Ranch]] in New Mexico. At {{convert|920|sqmi|km2}}, it is the largest privately owned, contiguous tract of land in the [[United States]].<ref>{{cite web|date=April 14, 2006|title=State, Vermejo Park Ranch Enter Into Agreement Regarding Abandoned Mine Reclamation|url=http://www.allbusiness.com/government/3639644-1.html|publisher=allbusiness}} {{dead link|date=June 2016|bot=medic}}{{cbignore|bot=medic}}</ref>

TEI works closely with Turner's philanthropic and charitable interests, including the founding and ongoing operations of the [[United Nations Foundation]], [[Nuclear Threat Initiative]], Turner Foundation,<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.turnerfoundation.org/|title=Turner Foundation|website=Turnerfoundation.org|access-date=October 21, 2021|archive-date=August 17, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200817180322/http://www.turnerfoundation.org/|url-status=dead}}</ref> Captain Planet Foundation,<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://captainplanetfoundation.org/|title=Captain Planet Foundation – Engaging & empowering young people to be problem solvers for the planet|website=Captainplanetfoundation.org|access-date=October 21, 2021}}</ref> and the Turner Endangered Species Fund.<ref name="auto"/> Turner Enterprises is headquartered in the Turner Building (formerly the [[Bona Allen Office Building]]) in [[Atlanta|Atlanta, Georgia]], also home to the [[Ted's Montana Grill]] restaurant chain, Ted Turner Reserves<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://tedturnerreserves.com/|title=Ted Turner Reserves – Luxury Eco-Tourism|website=Tedturnerreserves.com|access-date=October 21, 2021}}</ref>  and Turner Renewable Energy.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.tedturner.com/turner-renewable-energy/|title=Turner Renewable Energy – Turner Enterprises|website=Tedturner.com|access-date=October 21, 2021}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.tedturner.com/about/bona-allen-building/|title=Turner Building – Turner Enterprises|website=Tedturner.com|access-date=January 28, 2020}}</ref> In 2011, Ted Turner and TEI completed construction of a 25-panel solar array in the company's parking lot, which provides solar power to the Turner Building and its businesses<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.tedturner.com/turner-renewable-energy/|title=Turner Renewable Energy – Turner Enterprises|website=Tedturner.com|access-date=January 28, 2020}}</ref>

Chaired by Turner, TEI's executive leadership also includes CEO & President S. Taylor Glover.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.tedturner.com/about/company-officers/|title=Executive Leadership – Turner Enterprises|website=Tedturner.com|access-date=January 28, 2020}}</ref>