Montana Ranch Property for Sale: 30,654± Acre Cattle Ranch near Geyser, Montana

[Music] [Applause] hard grass native grass deep-rooted and strong the Great Plains billows and gathers itself into gentle hills cut through with creeks and streams ancient volcanic sills hint at this lands violent birth and the rich soils beneath its surface mountains ring this lush Basin and nourish it with countless cascading streams running Swift with melted snow and everywhere the grass grows here on the eastern slope of the high wood mountains the historic strand ranch spreads across what is arguably some of the finest grassland in central Montana thirty thousand 654 contiguous acres in all it is rare to find such a large holding rarer still to find one that has been so well conserved for 75 years The Strand family has stewarded this land and grown its value the result is an exceptional working range with tremendous water and grass resources that support cattle and big-game alike strand Ranch is located about 60 miles east of Great Falls and 50 miles west of Lewistown in Shoto and Judith Payson counties geyser a small farming community named for its historic mud Springs is about 16 miles south of the ranch while Geraldine is 16 miles to the north the geyser Geraldine Road provides year-round access to ranch headquarters the Great Falls International Airport has direct flights daily to Denver Phoenix and other hubs Lewistown Municipal Airport houses a solid FBO and accommodates regional private jet series aircraft the Lewis and Clark National Forest orders the range to the west round Butte the iconic and singular peak that's so mesmerized Charles Russell Rises dramatically from the rolling plains at the center of the ranch on the northeast border of the ranch square Butte another favorite rustle subject punctuates the horizon the peaks stand as reminders today of the rich history of this region from the Native Americans and Lewis and Clark to the earliest Montana settlers and 19th century sheep rancher Henry McDonald strand range traces its roots to McDonald's Holdings acquired in 1887 by the famed LNM ranch company and then by the legendary Hawley Ausmus a Norwegian sailor who it is said amassed more than 23,000 acres without borrowing a dime Oswald strand and his sons bought the land from oznas Cattle Company in 1944 Leroy strand operated the ranch until his death in 2016 at the age of 97 Leroy strand lived modestly and focused exclusively on conserving and approving its natural assets knowing is all good ranchers know that water and grass are everything Cottonwood Creek twists and turns through the heart of the ranch providing water for irrigated hay meadows along its banks five more streams flow through the ranch which along with seeps Springs and ponds water the summer pastures [Music] there's so much fresh water in fact that in most pastures clean clear sources are no more than a half mile apart with plentiful water throughout the ranch cattle can be rotated easily from pasture to pasture to prevent over grazing the ranch has more than a thousand acres of irrigated meadows and sub irrigated bottom land 600 acres of irrigated hay meadows can produce up to 2 tons of grass hay per acre from one cutting per season enough to support the current herd through a typical winner the range currently runs about 1100 mother cows cattle graze the foothills of the Highwoods in the summer and winter and the protected coolies at draws on the east side of the ranch working Corral's to calving sheds the fairbanks-morse scale and silencer shoot supported an efficient cattle handling operation the ranch managers home and staff housing are located at the headquarters compound along with barns shops and storage buildings this is L country and strand ranch is no exception resident L grow large and healthy here finding cover on the timbered slopes and forage in the lush riparian bottomlands and hay meadows in September the air rings with the bugling of the Bulls and later on the heels of the first snow the elk population swells with migratory animals coming down from the high wood mountains deer and antelope abound throughout the ranch round Butte is home to about three dozen native mountain goats and then there are the upland game birds magnificent Hungarian partridge ringneck pheasant and sharp-tailed grouse [Music] The Strand family deliberately kept their footprint small while growing the ranch large in all the best ways the result is a place out of time where operations are lean and cattle or fat creeks run clean and native grasses wave in the wind [Music]

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Length: 6min 24sec (384 seconds)

Published: Wed Sep 11 2019