Most rural land in Hunt County is already in an ag valuation for hay or cattle. When that use winds down, wildlife management keeps the valuation and gives you a plan for the deer, birds and habitat on the place.
Last reviewed October 2026. Your appraisal district has the final say, so confirm the details with them.
We walk your Hunt 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 Hunt County Appraisal District. After that we can help with the yearly practices and prepare the annual report from your records.
Hunt County runs from open Blackland Prairie around Greenville, Celeste and Wolfe City to the timbered drainages of the Sabine forks and the country around Lake Tawakoni in the south. Much of it is hay meadow and pasture broken up by fencerows and creek timber.
That mix suits whitetail well when the cover is in the right places. Deer bed in the creek timber and brushy fencerows and feed in the fields. The work is usually about connecting cover, adding food where the property lacks it, and keeping hogs in check in the river bottoms.
Small food plots and managed openings on former crop or hay ground count as supplemental food and pull deer into places you can hunt.
Leaving and thickening fencerow cover is habitat control and shelter, and it costs little.
Trapping and removal of feral hogs counts as predator control and protects the food and cover work.
A camera survey run the same way each year is the census practice and the best record of what the property holds.
Every property is different. These are starting points, and the plan for your land comes from walking it.
Hunt County is in the Blackland Prairie appraisal region. A tract that has been reduced in size since January 1 of the year before has to meet a minimum acreage that the district sets within TPWD's range for that region, 12.5 to 16.7 acres. A tract that has not been reduced has no minimum.
Applications and plans go to Hunt County Appraisal District in Greenville by April 30.
District website: Hunt County 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 Hunt 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, if the land is in an ag or timber valuation now. You file the 1-d-1 application with a wildlife management plan before May 1 and carry out at least three of the seven practices each year. We prepare your plan and help you file it with Hunt County Appraisal District.
There is no minimum unless the tract got smaller since January 1 of the year before. For a reduced tract, Hunt CAD sets a minimum within TPWD's Blackland Prairie range of 12.5 to 16.7 acres. Ask the district for its current figure.
A new owner has to file a new 1-d-1 application. If you won't keep cattle or hay going, a wildlife management plan filed with that application is how you keep the valuation. File before May 1.
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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 Hunt 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.