Freestone County is post oak hunting and cattle country between Richland-Chambers and the Trinity. Many tracts are bought for deer and held in an ag valuation. A wildlife plan suits both.
Last reviewed October 2026. Your appraisal district has the final say, so confirm the details with them.
We walk your Freestone 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 Freestone Central Appraisal District. After that we can help with the yearly practices and prepare the annual report from your records.
The county is Post Oak Savannah: sandy loam, post oak and blackjack woods, improved pasture and creek bottoms draining to the Trinity River on the east and Richland-Chambers Reservoir on the north.
Post oak country holds deer, but it closes in. Yaupon and brush shade out browse within a few years, so the most useful work is usually opening the understory, adding openings and food, and controlling hogs.
Mechanical work or prescribed fire to open the woods is habitat control and grows browse.
Small openings and plots in the timber are supplemental food and good places to hunt.
Trapping in the bottoms is predator control and protects the plots.
A repeatable camera survey shows what the deer herd looks like year to year.
Every property is different. These are starting points, and the plan for your land comes from walking it.
Freestone County is in the Post Oak Savannah appraisal region. For a tract made smaller since January 1 of the year before, the district sets a minimum within TPWD's range of 12.5 to 16.7 acres. A tract that has not been reduced has no minimum.
Applications and plans go to Freestone Central Appraisal District in Fairfield by April 30.
District website: Freestone Central Appraisal District.
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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 Freestone 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.
As a new owner you have to file a new 1-d-1 application before May 1. If you are not running cattle or cutting hay, a wildlife management plan filed with it is the usual way to keep the valuation.
Yes. Prescribed burning to improve habitat is one form of habitat control. It needs a burn plan and the right conditions, and it should be in your written plan.
No minimum unless the tract was reduced since January 1 of the prior year. For a reduced tract the minimum falls within TPWD's Post Oak Savannah range of 12.5 to 16.7 acres.
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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 Freestone 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.