Our Ranch landscaping is all-natural with fragrant sagebrush (Artemisia tridentate, the Nevada State flower), juniper, aspens and a variety of other indigenous plants.

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Cattle graze on native grasses and drink from our many natural springs. Occasionally we help “mother nature” with a windmill.

The Nevada state tree is the Single Leaf Piñon and Bristlecone Pine (Pinus Monophylla / Pinus Aristata).

The ranch log cabin is surrounded by these breathtaking views.

The nearest town to the ranch is Cedarville, CA, settled in around 1864, but was originally called Deep Creek. It was a camping place for emigrant wagon trains.

Northwestern Nevada is the home to portions of the National Conservation Area and is natural horse country. Riders find solitude and expansive country to enjoy. These same lands, inhabited by some of Nevada’s wild, free-roaming horses and burros, are protected by federal law and managed by the Bureau of Land Management (BLM).

North out of Vya is the Sheldon Antelope Refuge, a federally protected 575,813 acre refuge for large herds of pronghorn antelope native to this northern part of the Great Basin. The refuge, consisting of high desert wildlands, also provides habitat for the mule deer, California bighorn sheep, sage grouse, coyotes, bobcats and numerous species of migratory birds.

Sheldon, since the 1930’s, has been a National Wildlife Refuge that benefited from the attention of the depression-era Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC), put to work in this part of Nevada to build roads and fences. In fact, some of the beautiful old stone buildings built for the caretakers of the refuge still stand today and are maintained and occupied by rangers and wildlife biologists.