Anderson County is timber and pasture country between the Trinity and the Neches, around Palestine. Many tracts are hunted and held in ag or timber valuations, both of which can move to wildlife management.
Last reviewed October 2026. Your appraisal district has the final say, so confirm the details with them.
We walk your Anderson County property, look at what the deer and other wildlife are using and what they lack, and write a plan around that. The plan names the practices, where they go and when, and who does each job.
We prepare your plan and help you file it with Anderson County Appraisal District. After that we can help with the yearly practices and prepare the annual report from your records.
Around Palestine, Elkhart, Frankston and Tennessee Colony, the county mixes post oak and pine-hardwood timber with improved pasture. The Trinity River runs along the west and the Neches along the east, with big bottomland on both.
This is strong deer and turkey country. The work is usually about the timber: thinning, openings and fire or mowing to keep food growing, plus hog control in the bottoms.
Thinning and prescribed burning are habitat control and grow browse under the trees.
Supplemental food in small openings.
Protecting hardwood bottoms and trapping hogs along the rivers.
Repeated camera and turkey counts, recorded each year.
Every property is different. These are starting points, and the plan for your land comes from walking it.
Anderson County Appraisal District sits in the Post Oak Savannah and Pineywoods regions. Those regions share the same TPWD range for a tract made smaller since January 1 of the year before: 12.5 to 16.7 acres. A tract that has not been reduced has no minimum.
Applications and plans go to Anderson County Appraisal District in Palestine by April 30.
Contact details for Anderson County Appraisal District are in the Texas Comptroller's appraisal district directory.
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LVG Wildlife Solutions prepares wildlife management plans and supporting records. We are not attorneys or tax advisors, and nothing on this page is legal or tax advice.
Plug in your acres and land value. The estimator uses Anderson County's typical 2025 rural tax rate and the productivity value its appraisal district reports, then shows a rough yearly range and every figure it used.
Remember what it measures: the difference between full market-value taxes and an ag or wildlife valuation. If your land already has an ag valuation, a wildlife plan is how you keep that difference, not add to it.
See what goes into a wildlife management plan or ask us about your property.
Yes. Land appraised as timber land can convert to wildlife management use. You file the 1-d-1 application with a wildlife management plan before May 1.
No minimum unless the tract was reduced since January 1 of the prior year. For a reduced tract the minimum falls within TPWD's range of 12.5 to 16.7 acres.
Yes. Burning to improve habitat is one form of habitat control. It needs a burn plan and the right conditions, and belongs in your written plan.
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Maps, practices, a year-by-year calendar, cost estimates, and the forms ready to file.
Read moreTHE FIRST STEPWe walk your Anderson County property, find what it's short of, and tell you straight what would help most.
Read moreTHE PROCESSFrom the first call to the site visit, the plan, filing help and every year after.
Read moreSERVICESAssessments, plans, annual reports and habitat work, in the order your land needs them.
Read moreWHY USWhitetail and habitat specialists who walk every property and stay with you after the plan.
Read moreGET STARTEDTell us the county, the acreage and your goals. Plans are quoted to the property.
Get in touchTell us the acreage, how it's used now and what you want from it. We'll tell you plainly what would help most and what it would take.