Wildlife management that starts with walking your ground.

We come out and walk it with you, on foot, for as long as the property takes. There is no substitute for being on the ground: aerial imagery will not show you browse pressure, bedding sign, or how a drainage actually crosses. We map habitat, record and locate wildlife sign, note water and terrain, and map which ground you can manage versus leased or restricted acreage. You receive an interactive report, a PDF, and a call to walk through it together.

Forty acres is plenty to work with, and small properties often respond faster than large ones because a single change affects a larger share of the ground. What matters more than total acreage is how much of it you are allowed to manage and what surrounds it. We have no minimum.

No. The assessment stands on its own and several of its recommendations cost nothing to act on. When you are ready for more, the assessment is what the management plan is built from. Start with the property assessment.

The property assessment is a fixed fee based on property size, with travel beyond our normal range billed separately. Plans and habitat work vary with what the property needs, so we do not quote them before we have seen the ground. What we will do is tell you which recommendations cost nothing, which are a weekend of your own labor, and which need equipment or a contractor.

Almost always because the property offers bedding but no reason to move during legal light, or because your access route pushes animals out before you ever sit down. Both are fixable, and neither requires more deer. It is the most common problem we are called about and usually the most solvable.

There is no single answer, and anyone who gives you one without a soil test is guessing. Blackland clay, sandy loam, and Cross Timbers soils hold moisture and release nutrients very differently, which changes what will establish and what will survive a dry September. We recommend a soil test first, then a blend matched to the site and to whether you need attraction during season or tonnage through the year.

Placement matters far more than count. Six to eight cameras positioned to answer specific questions will teach you more in ninety days than twenty cameras on feeders. For a population survey the spacing and timing follow a defined protocol; for pattern work you want boundaries, crossings, and staging areas rather than the spots that produce the most photos.

Behavior responds faster than vegetation. Access discipline and camera-informed positioning can change what you see within a single season. Forage establishment is one growing season. Structural cover improvement is a two to three year horizon, and canopy work longer than that. We will tell you which category a recommendation falls into rather than implying everything happens at once.

Yes, and closed-canopy timber with a bare understory is one of the most common limiting factors we find. Deer will travel through it but have little reason to stay. Selective canopy work, edge feathering, and native regeneration can convert low-function timber into cover, but on leased or restricted ground those options may be off the table, which is why we map management authority first.

Yes. For Texas properties we write the plan so it does both jobs: it tells you how to manage the land for the wildlife on it, and it is prepared on the Texas Parks and Wildlife form so it can be filed with your county appraisal district for wildlife tax exemption. How the Texas wildlife tax exemption works.

In short: land that already has an agricultural or timber valuation, a written wildlife management plan, and at least three of seven wildlife management practices carried out and documented each year. Most good habitat work already falls inside those seven. The details are on our wildlife tax exemption page, and your county appraisal district has the final say.

For many Texas landowners it is one of the most valuable things a management plan does, and on larger properties the difference can be thousands of dollars a year. The figure depends on your acreage and your county, so the honest answer for your land comes from your county appraisal district's numbers. We will help you ask the right questions.

We prepare everything the filing needs: the plan, the maps, the practices and how they will be documented. You sign and file as the owner, and your chief appraiser makes the decision. We do not promise an approval, because nobody honestly can, and this is not tax or legal advice.

Yes, and mapping what you are permitted to do on leased or restricted ground is part of every assessment. State lease tracts, easements, and restricted acreage change what is actually possible. We will not recommend clearing, planting, or earthwork on ground where those activities are prohibited, and we flag anything that needs written confirmation from the administering agency.

A contractor installs what you ask for. We tell you whether that is the right thing to install, where, and what has to happen alongside it for it to matter. A food plot in the wrong place relative to bedding and access can make a property harder to hunt, not easier. If food plots turn out to be the right answer for your property, we will say so and tell you why.

Yes. Assessments, management plans, and habitat work are the same on both sides of the river. The wildlife tax exemption is the one piece that is specific to Texas.