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[man] The Ranch, we often joke,
isn't rocket science,

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but it's got a whole lot of moving parts.

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And to keep all those moving parts
in sync with one another,

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especially when production comes to town,
can be really complicated.

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My name's Steve Sligh,
and I oversee operations

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and the production aspect here
at Disney's Golden Oak Ranch.

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And we make movies.

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[Sligh] Walt liked the property
due to the fact of where it's located.

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He negotiated a deal

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and the Walt Disney Company
ended up with the Golden Oak Ranch.

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A lot of the films that were shot here
were Old Yeller, one of the first,

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Parent Trap,

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Herbie Goes Bananas.

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A lot of Pearl Harbor,

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Pirates of the Caribbean.

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I started here at the Golden Oak Ranch
back in 1992,

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so it'll be 27 years this September.

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When I started my job,
I lived on property for about 18 years.

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I really enjoyed that.

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I could go and have dinner in the evening,
jump on a Gator

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and plan what we were going to do
the next day.

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But along the road we had children.

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That became a little more cumbersome.

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I remember one day
walking out into the backyard

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when my son was just a toddler,

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and I heard this noise,
and I thought, "I know what that is,"

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and then it clicked,
it was a rattlesnake buzzing.

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So I no longer live on property.

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Covered Bridge is the most iconic
of all our sets here.

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It's one of those sets
that has passed the test of time.

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It was built back in 1962
for an episode of Bonanza

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and has been here ever since.

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-That entire area.
-Yeah.

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And then we wanna pull the cart down
the other side of the Boneyard

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and get those and make sure that
we haven't got anything showing up there.

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[Sligh] Marvel came in
for Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.,

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and they needed to do
a really large special effect.

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That's exactly what we expect to go on
here on the Business District.

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It's designed for filming,

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and if a window goes out,
a window can be repaired.

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This area with those,
then we should do all our prep work now.

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-Get all those trees under.
-[man] Okay.

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Get the rest of the hoogleberry,
get that second hoogle in up there.

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My staff, they all come ready
to take on what their responsibility is

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and to cover for their teammates.

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We're looking at ripping out
all those pines that are there.

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One of the troubles we have
is helicopters...

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Everything we do
is really based on land management.

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Where do we go next?

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How do we make sure
that we keep the balance in place?

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Our base of operations is agriculture

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and that's known
throughout the film industry.

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The vegetables that we grow here
end up down in our commissaries.

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It's a connection between us and our peers
down in the city at the studios.

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It's looking pretty good.

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Our hay pastures,
which remain green year-round,

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that's an incredible
draw to the film industry

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in arid Southern California.

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Crews that need to duplicate
other parts of the United States,

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they need the green,
they need the pine trees,

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the things that we've brought in,
the things we've done here.

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And again, all of that is based
on agricultural principles.

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We get to be involved
in so many different things.

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The thing that brings
the most satisfaction

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is to look out and realize

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we've established this balance between
the environment and our production.

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I would argue with anybody that said
I didn't have the best job in the company.

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We remain one of the busiest production
locations in Los Angeles County,

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yet we have to stop
to let the deer cross the road.