Hundreds of FLDS children are expected to return to the Yearning for Zion Ranch on Tuesday.
Those children have been spread out across Texas. It's been two months since CPS and law enforcement raided the ranch and took more than 400 children into protective custody.
Monday evening, FLDS church leaders took News 8 on a tour of the ranch to show the community they've built.
With dusty roads abound connecting the 1,700-acre ranch, only a locked fence separates County Road 300 from the Yearning for Zion Ranch.
Within the large gate sits more than one dozen multi-story log cabin style homes. A large limestone temple grazes the cobalt blue sky and can be seen from almost any point on the ranch.
Construction is still underway at the ranch. Fruit orchards and fields of potatoes and bails of hay are plentiful.
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Sect's ranch
News 8's Russell Wilde takes an inside look at the Yearning for Zion Ranch.
 
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Church members said when they first arrived at the ranch there was nothing but trees, and several years later, the FLDS have turned the tract of land into a gated community of sorts.
Though the court order allows the parents to return their children to the ranch, some of the parents won't. A lot of the parents have established residences near the shelters where their children were being kept.
Many of the children have been through a traumatic experience and it might not be the best time for them to return to the ranch, church leaders said.
This case is one of the largest custody cases in U.S. history.
At last check, 130 of the more than 400 children, originally taken from the ranch, have been released.
