Situated inside the Dixie National Forest of Southern Utah, near the township of Enterprise. Our ranch is one of just two private ranches homesteaded within the three-thousand acre valley under the high mountain ridgelines that surround us on all sides. Homesteaded in the early 1880's by Mormon Pioneers on the St. George mission in search of additonal grazing land for the swiftly expanding needs of the settlers North in the Great Salt Lake basin. Our ranch and one additional ranch in the valley were settled and privatized through the United States Homestead Act of 1862. In 1905 the federal government established the nearly two-million acre Dixie National Forest. Our ranch fell within those newly established boundries well more than one-hundred years ago now. This meant that our ranch along with the one other in the valley would forever be grandfathered in as private deeded parcels, wholly surrounded by protected public lands. Never again allowing private ownership of land in the valley. Due to the topography surrounding our ranch and the singular roadway into and out of the valley, our ranch is very much removed from the hustle and bustle of todays world. Chosen at inception by the homesteaders for its abundent clean and cool water from ancient artesian springs. The settlers chose our ranch as one of the two most beneficial plots of land in the valley for successful husbandry of their animals. Today it is still that same artesian well that has flowed unchanged likely for thousands of years that is the foundation for our beef production. Without abundant, clean and clear water to support vegitation in this high desert enviroment there could be no viable ranch. Water is truly the most valuable resource on the planet and it is the cornerstone of our operations at the ranch today as has been for more than a century.