7,000 acres. it also included exclusive access to more than 7,000 acres of adjoining land, so called open range. wayne took a couple of days to show us around. >> the you really need that much property in. >> yes, in this country it takes 320 acre to raise one cow for one year. >> they couldn't afford to purchase the acres, so they paid for their smaller piece of property and at the same time bought the right to water and grazing on the larger spread. that's the way it's been done out here since the 1860s. this these rights have been passed down for more than 100 years and the reason that pine creek is economically valuable. the extra land is public property managed by the forest service and that's where they say their problems began. it's not like they weren't warned.