John Malone Biggest Landowner in the U.S.

[Wealth Report] The 70-year-old cable pioneer and chairman of Liberty Media now owns 2.2 million acres, after purchasing more than 1 million acres of timberland in Maine and New Hampshire earlier this year.

A depressed market is helping fuel a surge in land buying among the richest Americans. Malone claims to be purchasing the land to safeguard it's natural heritage, other a fearful he is simply helping fuel an era of "Kingdom Buyers".