The ranch is located at the confluence of four great trout rivers the Ruby, the Big Hole, the Beaverhead and the Jefferson and features four spring creeks.

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Beaverhead County, Montana, covers 5, 600 square miles (14, 400 square kilometres).

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Now, at 43, he and his wife, Julie , have bought two ranches in southwest Montana-the 1, 800-acre Beaverhead Ranch, with 5 miles of the Beaverhead River running through it, and the 2, 000-acre Big Hole Ranch, which rises 1, 500 feet from the Big Hole River up to grazing land for a herd of 400 elk that borders a national forest.

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