reporter: sandy and russ lyon are the kind of landowners that know every detail of their property. since 1992, the california transplants have spent their days stewarding these 306 acres of ranch land in southwest oregon. they've raised their son here, plus a small number of livestock. and they've worked to restore the salmon habitat in the cree that cuts through their land. >> and the spawning salmon cop mingn hide under those logs. >> reporter: the lyons say they moreved to ruraln because they wanted to live in nature, away from things. but irin 2005, despite test efforts, they learned that a bit of the odutside world was ind coming in, or, in their case, coming under their land. >> we got a letter inail. and with the letter, there was a mhoapng where it would go. >> reporter: the letter conceerned what is now called jordan cove energy project. it's a proposed 229-mile natural gas pipeline that would serve as ection between existin pipelines in the rocky mountains and a liquid nural gas export rminal that would be built on the oregon coast. the nepiline would run right through th