Real world article
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Nana Visitor and René Auberjonois on location
The Ahmanson Ranch is the former name of Upper Las Virgenes Canyon Open Space Preserve, a park in eastern Ventura County in California, located at Victory Boulevard, Lasky Mesa, West Hills, Los Angeles, California, USA. According to the Star Trek: Deep Space Nine Companion, p. 454 it stood in as the planet Gaia in the Star Trek: Deep Space Nine fifth season episode "Children of Time".
The Ahmanson Ranch was also used as filming location for movies such as Gone with the Wind (1939), The Thundering Herd (1925), The Charge of the Light Brigade (1936), They Died With Their Boots On (1941), Silver Spurs (1936), Santa Fe Trail (1940), Duel in the Sun (1949), and Wild Heritage (1958). [1](X)