Hunt the Hunter

J.B. Hunt, the patriarch of the nation’s largest publicly-traded trucking company, is forming a hunting club on 2,000 acres in Missouri.

Hunt acquired the land from Tim Graham, a former vice president with Hunt’s trucking company and now an agent with Dykes Bassett Mix & Associates Inc. of Fayetteville. Hunt traded Graham 55 acres of his Southfork housing development in Lowell for the land in Missouri.

Plans for the land include building 12 cabins and a lodge and conference room suitable for corporate retreats. The property is being stocked with elk, deer, quail and pheasants, all to provide game for hunting. In addition to the memberships that Hunt intends to sell to the hunting club, the facilities will be available to companies and individuals for a fee.

Graham will develop the 240 lots on the land in Lowell and plans to begin selling them in October or November. He also will manage the hunting club for Hunt.

Southfork is a 400-acre, 970-lot housing development that Hunt is building on a cattle ranch in Lowell.