In 1989, media billionaire and CNN founder Ted Turner bought the enormous Flying D Ranch in Montana for about $21 million. Instead of continuing it as a traditional cattle operation, he removed the cattle, pulled out hundreds of miles of internal barbed-wire fencing and began transforming the property around bison.
Nearly four decades later, the ranch looks very different from the operation Turner acquired. It now supports about 4,500 bison across 113,613 acres of southwestern Montana.
