Mr. BOB POPPLEWELL (Proprietor, Bayou Bob's Brazos River Rattlesnake Ranch): We're here today to welcome you all to Texas and onboard here at the snake ranch.

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"What happened in Long Branch to achieve Pier Village is an atrocity, " says the 53-year-old Mr. MacCloud, who now lives in Tom's River in a ranch-style home a couple of miles from the water.

WSJ: Battle of the Beach

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.

FORBES: Home On The Ranch

La Estrella is their luxuriously rustic ranch in the Valle California Reserve, set along the river in the Andean foothills.

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Anschutz regularly invites friends, board members and sports teams to his Eagles Nest Ranch, 45, 000 acres on the South Platte River northeast of Denver.

FORBES: Technology

The ranch's 16 restored miles of the Little Snake River now boast some of the West's best trout fishing, and dedicated anglers have been returning for a decade.

FORBES: Magazine Article

The raindrops blown a couple of miles west of our ranch would land in creeks that percolated through the Columbia River system into the Pacific, whereas the water in Feely Creek, our creek, was blessed with the task of traveling a thousand miles more, all the way down to the bayous of Louisiana before spilling through the loamy delta into the Gulf of Mexico.

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In Montana, near the town of Twin Bridges, the 34, 000-acre Hamilton Ranch (also known as G Hanging Dash) was sold to Swift River Investments.

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