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The story begins in 1989 on a bleak Montana hillside, where Turner purchased the 113,000-acre Flying D Ranch. Once teeming with native grasses, the landscape was decimated by decades of intensive cattle grazing, leaving a moonscape and a warning of ecological collapse. Financial advisors questioned the wisdom of spending $22 million on what seemed an irredeemably broken land, and local ranchers dismissed Turner's ambitions.