The ranch adjoining us to the north was sold last year and the 2,400 acres were split in half. A new house was built and the 100 acre lake was redone. The previous owner allowed the alligators to pretty much take over the lake. The new owners wanted to build cabins for children with cancer around the lake. They worked for months to catch all the gators. I wonder if they did. Used to when it rained, small ones would be in the road. smushed roadkill. It is odd, because I do not live in the part of Texas where you normally think of gators being. But they are here. My research showed me that this is part of their original natural habitat. I am between Austin and Bryan-College Station in central Texas.