Texas lets qualifying land be taxed on what it produces instead of what it would sell for. Pick your county, put in your acres and land value, and see a rough yearly range, with every figure behind it.
Like the number? A wildlife management plan is how land that already has an ag valuation keeps it. Talk to us about your property.
Most people call it an ag exemption. Officially it is open-space valuation: the land is taxed on its productivity value, usually a small fraction of its market value.
Land used for cattle, hay, crops, bees and similar uses, at the level typical for the county.
Land managed to grow and sell timber, usually under a timber management plan.
Land that already has an ag or timber valuation, now managed for native wildlife under a written plan with at least three of seven practices a year.
Wildlife management is the one most landowners have never heard of. It lets a place that is used for hunting, wildlife and enjoyment instead of cattle or hay keep its valuation, as long as it is managed for native wildlife under a written plan. That plan is filed with your county appraisal district, and the work it calls for is the same work that makes a property hunt better. Read how the Texas wildlife exemption works.
We use typical county figures and show a range 25% either side. Your school district, your exact value and your district's numbers can move the real figure a lot.
You are likely already getting most of this. Switching to wildlife management keeps that valuation. It does not lower your taxes further.
Wildlife management is only open to land that had an ag or timber valuation the year before, and an ag valuation generally needs a history of agricultural use. The number shows what is at stake, not a saving you can claim this year.
Minimum acreage for tracts that have been split, the plan, the yearly practices and the district's review and approval all apply. Nobody can promise an approval, including us.
Your home site and buildings, city taxes, emergency services districts and any exemptions you already have are not part of the estimate.
If land leaves its open-space valuation, a rollback tax recaptures the difference for the three years before the change.
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.
The valuation is the benefit. The plan is what earns and keeps it. We build ours around the wildlife on your property first, so the work improves the land and the hunting, not just the paperwork.
See what's in a plan, how the assessment works, or who we are.
On foot, so the plan fits your ground: cover, food, water, and how deer and other wildlife use the place.
The practices that fit, mapped and on a calendar, with who does each job and rough costs.
On the TPWD form, ready for your signature, and we help you file it with your county appraisal district.
Records, the yearly practices and the annual report, so the valuation and the land both keep working.
It is a rough range. It uses your acres and land value, a typical 2025 rural tax rate for your county from the Texas Comptroller, and the productivity value your county appraisal district reported to the state. Your own school district and appraised values can put the real figure outside the range.
No. Wildlife management land is valued the same way as ag land. Switching from ag to wildlife keeps the valuation when cattle, hay or crops stop. It does not add savings on top of it.
Not directly. The land has to be in an agricultural or timber valuation the year before it moves to wildlife management, and an ag valuation generally needs a history of agricultural use. If your land has neither, talk to us and your appraisal district about the path first.
A current ag or timber valuation, a written wildlife management plan on the TPWD form filed with the application before May 1, and at least three of the seven practices carried out every year. Tracts that have been split may also have to meet a minimum acreage.
If land with an open-space valuation changes to a non-qualifying use, the district recaptures the tax difference for the three years before the change. It is worth knowing before you buy, sell or build.
Every property is different, so we quote each plan after a short call about your acreage, goals and how much of the work you want to do yourself.
Tell us where the land is, roughly how big, and how it's used today. We'll tell you plainly whether wildlife management fits, what your appraisal district will want to see, and what a plan would take.
A real person reads every inquiry, and you'll hear back within a couple of days.
Counties we serve: Collin, Hunt, Fannin, Grayson, Kaufman, Ellis, Navarro, Freestone, Van Zandt, Wood, Smith, Hopkins, Rains, Henderson, Delta, Lamar, Anderson, Limestone, Hill, Titus.
Maps, practices, a year-by-year calendar, cost estimates, and the forms ready to file.
Read moreTHE FIRST STEPWe walk your land, 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.
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