Limestone County runs from Blackland farm ground around Mexia to post oak and the Navasota River in the east. It is cattle and hunting country, and many tracts here are good candidates to move from ag to wildlife.
Last reviewed October 2026. Your appraisal district has the final say, so confirm the details with them.
We walk your Limestone 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 Limestone County Appraisal District. After that we can help with the yearly practices and prepare the annual report from your records.
Around Groesbeck, Mexia, Coolidge and Thornton, the west side of the county is Blackland Prairie farm and pasture, and the east side is post oak, sandy pasture and creek bottoms draining to the Navasota. Lake Mexia and Lake Limestone add water.
The two halves need different work. Prairie ground needs cover put back. Post oak ground usually needs brush and yaupon opened up so there is browse under the trees.
Brush and yaupon control under post oak is habitat control.
Native grass and brushy edges on open farm ground.
Food plots and pond work where the property lacks them.
Trapping in the river bottoms and a yearly camera survey.
Every property is different. These are starting points, and the plan for your land comes from walking it.
Limestone County Appraisal District sits in the Post Oak Savannah and Blackland Prairie 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 Limestone County Appraisal District in Groesbeck by April 30.
Contact details for Limestone 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 Limestone 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 it is appraised for agriculture now. You file a wildlife management plan with the 1-d-1 application before May 1, then carry out three of the seven practices each year.
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.
Not always. Managed grazing can be part of a wildlife plan as a form of habitat control. But the land's primary use has to be wildlife management, not a cattle operation.
More questions and answers · How the Texas wildlife exemption works
Maps, practices, a year-by-year calendar, cost estimates, and the forms ready to file.
Read moreTHE FIRST STEPWe walk your Limestone 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.