[man] The Ranch, we often joke, isn't rocket science,
but it's got a whole lot of moving parts.
And to keep all those moving parts in sync with one another,
especially when production comes to town, can be really complicated.
My name's Steve Sligh, and I oversee operations
and the production aspect here at Disney's Golden Oak Ranch.
And we make movies.
[Sligh] Walt liked the property due to the fact of where it's located.
He negotiated a deal
and the Walt Disney Company ended up with the Golden Oak Ranch.
A lot of the films that were shot here were Old Yeller, one of the first,
Parent Trap,
Herbie Goes Bananas.
A lot of Pearl Harbor,
Pirates of the Caribbean.
I started here at the Golden Oak Ranch back in 1992,
so it'll be 27 years this September.
When I started my job, I lived on property for about 18 years.
I really enjoyed that.
I could go and have dinner in the evening, jump on a Gator
and plan what we were going to do the next day.
But along the road we had children.
That became a little more cumbersome.
I remember one day walking out into the backyard
when my son was just a toddler,
and I heard this noise, and I thought, "I know what that is,"
and then it clicked, it was a rattlesnake buzzing.
So I no longer live on property.
Covered Bridge is the most iconic of all our sets here.
It's one of those sets that has passed the test of time.
It was built back in 1962 for an episode of Bonanza
and has been here ever since.
-That entire area. -Yeah.
And then we wanna pull the cart down the other side of the Boneyard
and get those and make sure that we haven't got anything showing up there.
[Sligh] Marvel came in for Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.,
and they needed to do a really large special effect.
That's exactly what we expect to go on here on the Business District.
It's designed for filming,
and if a window goes out, a window can be repaired.
This area with those, then we should do all our prep work now.
-Get all those trees under. -[man] Okay.
Get the rest of the hoogleberry, get that second hoogle in up there.
My staff, they all come ready to take on what their responsibility is
and to cover for their teammates.
We're looking at ripping out all those pines that are there.
One of the troubles we have is helicopters...
Everything we do is really based on land management.
Where do we go next?
How do we make sure that we keep the balance in place?
Our base of operations is agriculture
and that's known throughout the film industry.
The vegetables that we grow here end up down in our commissaries.
It's a connection between us and our peers down in the city at the studios.
It's looking pretty good.
Our hay pastures, which remain green year-round,
that's an incredible draw to the film industry
in arid Southern California.
Crews that need to duplicate other parts of the United States,
they need the green, they need the pine trees,
the things that we've brought in, the things we've done here.
And again, all of that is based on agricultural principles.
We get to be involved in so many different things.
The thing that brings the most satisfaction
is to look out and realize
we've established this balance between the environment and our production.
I would argue with anybody that said I didn't have the best job in the company.
We remain one of the busiest production locations in Los Angeles County,
yet we have to stop to let the deer cross the road.