Leopold Live: Small Acreage Management

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Texas wildlife tax exemption rules are ridiculous, I purchased 80 ac in the high plains that is in terrible condition as far as water storage drains . The sad part is that is was not in previous ag because it was in such bad condition from history of failed farming/ ranching. The problem I have is I can’t afford are have the time left to put my property in a 5 yr ag exemption test period to change over to wildlife exemption. My only happy note to it is that my wife and I have put a lot of time and money into it to recover it 2 fold from where it was. But it was extremely expensive between taxes and the upgrades. We do get to enjoy some Awsome whitetail, dove , quail and a little turkey hunting . We have created wildlife waters station supplemented feed food plots just don’t work with less then 23 inches of rain a year . Lots of tractor work improved grasses and wild flowers improvement. We will sale this place in the future with no at exemption somehow and pray the new owners will continue the hard blue collar work.