I am looking for information about transferring property from agricultural tax exempt, to wildlife tax exempt. I am slowly preparing for applying in 2020, and there seems to be dozens of ways to handle it. I am wondering if anyone had experience with which options might be the least cost prohibitive in regards to the yearly improvements needed to meet an approved management plan.
The property sits in central Fannin County and is 40 acres of blackland clay. As small as it is, I know there will be a lot of limiting factors. i.e. I cant make quail a management goal, because the property won’t sustain a population.
My personal goals are to eventually restore a majority of the property to native blackland prairie, add a decent chunk of hard and soft mast trees, provide supplemental forage to deer via about 4ac of food plots, and increase dove usage. The prairie restoration will take time, financially, to get to and I don’t want a plan approved with that specifically listed. That way, if we are unable to afford a project of that scale in time, we haven’t violated the exemption’s management plan.
I have heard some people mention songbirds as being a fairly easy management plan, with little capital needed. But, I am not sure how easily a plan like that would get approved. I plan to have discussions with the NRCS before any decisions are made, but figured I would see if anyone here had direct experience with the process and could give me any reccomendations.
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The property sits in central Fannin County and is 40 acres of blackland clay. As small as it is, I know there will be a lot of limiting factors. i.e. I cant make quail a management goal, because the property won’t sustain a population.
My personal goals are to eventually restore a majority of the property to native blackland prairie, add a decent chunk of hard and soft mast trees, provide supplemental forage to deer via about 4ac of food plots, and increase dove usage. The prairie restoration will take time, financially, to get to and I don’t want a plan approved with that specifically listed. That way, if we are unable to afford a project of that scale in time, we haven’t violated the exemption’s management plan.
I have heard some people mention songbirds as being a fairly easy management plan, with little capital needed. But, I am not sure how easily a plan like that would get approved. I plan to have discussions with the NRCS before any decisions are made, but figured I would see if anyone here had direct experience with the process and could give me any reccomendations.
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