The southern terrain is perhaps the most scenic, with the Mexican mountains in the background, and tremendous views down into Indian Creek and Cook Creek with rolling hills and limestone cliff canyon banks. There are 2 large pastures and one trap on this side. Waters are distributed around the ranch by a variety of wells, pipelines, water storage, and water troughs. The extensive landscape of rolling hills, valleys and long canyons, create scenic and vast views. With topography ranging from 1,600 to just over 2,000 feet there are many potential building sites with distant vistas of ranch features.

A wide variety of habitats span the ranch, from ocotillo and sotol, to hackberry, persimmon, black brush and juniper, the ranch represents a crossroads of diverse habitats. The propertys browse and grasslands are in excellent condition, a result of the ranchs evolution from a historic sheep and goat operation into todays recreational uses of hunting, hiking, and enjoyment of scenic beauty. Native grasses, forbs, browse, brush, cacti and trees not only provide excellent habitat for game species such as deer, turkey, quail, Barbados Sheep, and dove, but also for non-game species such as Texas horned lizard, neotropical songbirds, golden eagles, fox, ringtail cat, mountain lion, and many other mammals and birds.

Current management of the ranch has been focused on improving and growing both mule deer and whitetail deer populations. The population is about 50/50 for these two deer types and with the water distribution and excellent cover, this is some of the best Blue Quail hunting around.

The groundwater under Buena Vista Ranch is high quality and is accessed by one large electric well on adjoining property to the north and by two windmills further south. With the extensive water tanks and water pipeline and trough system, water is available across the ranch.