Wood County is lake, timber and pasture country, and much of its rural land sits in an ag or timber valuation. Both can convert to wildlife management, which suits owners who are there for the deer, the turkey and the woods.
Last reviewed October 2026. Your appraisal district has the final say, so confirm the details with them.
We walk your Wood 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 Wood County Appraisal District. After that we can help with the yearly practices and prepare the annual report from your records.
Around Quitman, Mineola, Winnsboro and Hawkins, the county mixes pine and hardwood timber with improved pasture, and it is full of water: Lake Fork, Lake Quitman, Lake Holbrook, Lake Winnsboro, and the Sabine River along the south.
Timbered land with pasture and water has what deer need. Plans here usually manage the timber with wildlife in mind: thinning, openings, and burning or mowing to keep food growing under the trees.
Thinning pine stands and creating openings lets sunlight in and grows browse. It counts as habitat control.
Plots in openings and on pasture edges are supplemental food.
Nest boxes for wood ducks and songbirds near the many ponds and creeks.
Camera surveys and turkey or deer counts, repeated each year.
Every property is different. These are starting points, and the plan for your land comes from walking it.
Wood County spans the Post Oak Savannah and Pineywoods regions, and both carry the same TPWD range for a tract made smaller since the year before: 12.5 to 16.7 acres. A tract that has not been reduced has no minimum.
Wood County Appraisal District in Quitman posts its agricultural, timber and wildlife guidelines and the TPWD forms on its website.
District website: Wood 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 Wood 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, just as ag land can. You file the 1-d-1 application with a wildlife management plan before May 1.
No. A wildlife plan can include timber management, as long as the primary use of the land is managing for wildlife and you carry out three practices each year. Thinning done for habitat often counts as one.
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.
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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 Wood 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.