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Great Brown County Ranch Real Estate

This ranch is 981 acres and the best Brown County has to offer! This ranch the ideal income and recreational property with one of its best features being a 29 acre lake. The lake has crystal clear water and great tree covered shorelines. The lake has a rocky, rugged shoreline with countless oaks and elms and another more flat shore with grassy tree covered areas. Clear Creek, a live water creek, runs completely through the property. In one area the creek bottom is solid rock with one side of the creek draw having high bluffs with beautiful rock formations jutting out with mixed native vegetation and trees providing cover along the creek. The peace and tranquility along the creek area is something one must experience to appreciate. Again, this is a great piece of Texas land for sale!

In addition to Clear Creek, another creek gently winds through the property with several deep pools of water for the deer, turkey, wildlife, and livestock. The ranch has a very diverse terrain including the ridge that offers tremendous views across the countryside, deep draws, and two areas of cultivation that are ideal for food plots. The grasses are very good on the ranch making it a great place for cattle. The tree cover is excellent with live oaks, post oaks, elms, and mesquites being the predominate trees found on the ranch. A good variety of native brush high in protein for the white-tailed deer can be found here on the ranch. There is an abundance of deer and turkey on the ranch along with quail and dove, making for a truly awesome hunting experience. If you are looking for a place to get into deer or turkey management, this ranch is for you!

The history-rich ranch is one of the finest ranches offered for sale in Texas. It has everything a true Hill Country ranch can offer. The ranch is priced at $4,267,350.00. Contact the real estate agent today for a showing or more information.

First Choice Properties

The residential buyer’s agents of First Choice Properties work with buyers to locate homes and waterfront properties in the Highland Lakes area and the central portion of the Texas Hill Country. Their farm and ranch buyer’s agents specialize in locating farm and ranch properties throughout Texas. The real estate agent will perform custom searches to match your individual “Wish List” and will notify you as soon as they find the property of your dreams! Simply tell them what you are looking for by filling in the requested information on their site. Also, you can search the Hill Country Listings by contacting them at:

Vanderpool Ranch For Sale in Bandera County

This 521-acre Bandera County gem of a ranch is ready for hunting! This recreational hunting ranch offers a variety of post oak country, views big deep canyons and draws, great road system, a three-bedroom, two-bath home, caretaker’s house, equipment barn, well, electricity, five executive deer blinds and feeders, piped water, paved access and all of it ready to go and priced to sell fast. In addition, this Bandera County property has free-roaming exotics and great deer hunting. This ranch is a rare find and great deal, so contact the agent and get more information about this wonderful piece of Hill Country real estate now!

Kinney County Ranch Real Estate

This 1,650 acre piece of Kinney County ranch real estate is situated in one of one of the most desirable counties for recreation and hunting in Texas. The property is located just 45 minutes northwest of Uvalde and is a comfortable drive from San Antonio. This ranch is partially high-fenced and is located in the upper south Texas ecological area in the transition zone below the Edwards Plateau with a gently rolling to undulating terrain with spectacular views throughout the ranch. The entire ranch is covered with native south Texas brush including mesquite, granjeno, blackbrush, guajillo, cenizo, and acacia. There are also numerous live oak mottes scattered throughout the ranch. There has been limited brush control professionally conducted at various locations on the ranch.

Native wildlife populations found on the Kinney County ranch property include white-tailed deer, turkey, dove and quail. A wildlife management program is in place under the guidance of Texas Parks and Wildlife Department. This ranch is well watered with 2 solar powered water wells, 3 tanks, 2 seasonal springs, and 4 small water holding areas in the drainages. There is completely renovated and remodeled 2 BR/2Bath ranch house, a beautifully landscaped swimming pool, equipment barn, livestock pens with 2 covered barns, as well as 2 caliche materials pits located on the ranch. There is an excellent road system throughout ands ome minerals available, so contact the land agent now to get much more information.

Bandera Ranch With Live Water For Sale

This 239 acre Bandera County property is located near the apple capital of the Hill County — Medina, Texas. It’s just minutes to Kerrville and only 45 minutes to San Antonio, but it has the gorgeous cypress tree- lined Medina River with rapids and deep holes. In addition to highway access, a nice 50 acre field for horses, or a hay crop, or grazing. This ranch has big trees with deep soil and 360 degree views of the Texas Hill County. In addition to great Hill Country habitat, this ranch has a small rustic house, hunters cabin, water well, electricity and unique pasture land that is rare to the normally rocky hill county. Free roaming exotic animals such as axis, blackbuck antelope, sheep, and native white-tailed deer are found on the property. Contact the ranch real estate agent if you’re interested.

32 Acres For Sale In Comal County

This 32 acres of Comal County is simply a great property for all seasons! This small ranch has lots of beautiful mature live oak trees and wildlife galore. White-tailed deer, Rio Grande turkey, roadrunners, fox, and even the rare ring-tailed cat are present. The adjacent neighbors are an 8,000 acre ranch and a 1,200 acre ranch, so there is plenty of solitude for wildlife to congregate both on and around this property.

This place was built for fun with a 4 bedroom, 2 1/2 bath home! Both you and guests enjoy exploring the canyon or having a Cowboy Cookout! Nothing is more enticing than the smell of Texas cedar (Juniper) logs burning in the fall. This is a great piece of real estate located in the finest area of the very rugged Devil’s Backbone escarpment in Comal County. It is close to everything the Hill Country has to offer, plus all the amenities of San Marcos, New Braunfels, and lovely Wimberley and Gruene.

Price: $574,999.00

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Providing Supplemental Food for Wildlife Valuation

Most wildlife environments have some natural food, but in many cases additonal food can benefit native wildlife populations. An owner supplies supplemental food by providing food or nutrition in addition to the level naturally produced on the land. Grazing Management, Prescribed Burning and Range Improvement can be used to provide supplemental food. Other ways to provide supplemental food to meet wildlife exemption requirements include:

  • food plots
  • feeder and mineral supplements
  • managing tame pasture, old fields and croplands

Food plots are one way to establish locally adapted forage to provide supplemental foods and cover during critical periods of the year. Livestock should be generally excluded from small food plots. The shape, size, location and percentage of total land area devoted to food plots should be based on the requirements of the targeted species.

Feeders and mineral supplements also can help dispense additional food to selected wildlife species during critical periods. Feeders should not be used except to control excessive numbers of deer and/or exotic ungulates as defined within a comprehensive wildlife management plan with a targeted harvest quota that is regularly measured. Harmful aflatoxin in feed should not exceed 20 parts per billion.

Mineral supplements also may be supplied to wildlife in several ways, however, this practice must be a part of an overall habitat management plan that addresses all animal groups and considers the habitat’s carrying capacity.

Managing tame pasture, old fields and croplands can increase plant diversity, provide supplemental food and forage and gradually help convert the land to native vegetation. Recommended practices may include:

  • overseeding or planting cool season and/or warm season legumes (for example, clovers, vetches and peas) and/or small grains in pastures or rangeland
  • using plants and planting methods appropriate to the county
  • shallow tillage (discing) that encourages habitat diversity, the production of native grasses and forbs or increases bare ground feeding habitat for selected species
  • no till or minimum till agricultural practices that leave waste grain and stubble on the soil surface until the next planting season—which provide supplemental food or cover, control erosion and improve soil tilth

Legumes should be planted annually until all pastures are shifted to native vegetation.

Providing Supplemental Water for Wildlife Valuation

Natural water exists in all wildlife environments. However, supplemental water is provided when the owner actively provides water in addition to the natural sources. This category of wildlife management activity includes providing supplemental water in habitats where water is limited or redesigning water sources to increase its availability to wildlife. For the purposed of wildlife valuation, wildlife water developments are in addition to those sources already available to livestock and may require protection from livestock. Some examples of recommended practices include:

  • marsh or wetland restoration or development
  • managing well, trough and windmill overflow
  • spring development and/or improvements

Marsh or wetland restoration or development can provide supplemental water in the form of shallow wetlands for wetland-dependent wildlife, even in areas where inadequate water does not limit wildlife. Owners may include seasonally available water such as:

  • greentree reservoirs
  • specific shallow roost pond development
  • seasonally flooded crops and other areas
  • moist soil management
  • cienega (desert marsh) restoration, development and protection
  • maintaining water in playa lakes

Based on the wildlife’s needs and the suitability of the property, managing water levels annually is desirable. To be effective, a minimum of at least one marsh/wetland should be restored or developed every five years.

Managing well, trough and windmill overflow can provide supplemental water for wildlife and provide habitat for wetland plants. Owners also may drill wells if necessary and/or build pipelines to distribute water. Building devices—known as wildlife water guzzlers—to collect rainfall and/or runoff for wildlife in areas where water is limited also helps protect wildlife, but these devices must be a part of an overall habitat management program.

Spring development and/or improvements can be designed to protect the immediate area surrounding a spring. Excluding and/or controlling livestock around springs may help to maintain native plants and animal diversity. Other ways to protect areas include moving water through a pipe to a low trough or a shallow wildlife water overflow, making water available to livestock and wildlife while preventing degradation of the spring area from trampling.

Improvements also could include restoring a degraded spring by selectively removing appropriate brush and revegetating the area with plants and maintaining the restored spring as a source of wildlife water. Maintaining critical habitat, nesting and roosting areas for wildlife and preventing soil erosion must be considered when planning and implementing brush removal. This practice should be planned and implemented gradually and selectively over a period of time.

Predator Managment for Wildlife Valuation

Predator management refers to practices intended to manage the population of predators to benefit the owner’s target wildlife population. Predator control is usually not necessary unless the number of predators is harmful to the desired wildlife population. It really depends on your goals under the management plan you draft for your wildlife valuation. 

Predator control and management should not be counted as one of the seven wildlife management activities necessary to qualify for agricultural use appraisal unless it is part of a comprehensive wildlife management scheme or plan. Some types of predator management and/or control are:

  • mammal predator control
  • fire ant control
  • brown-headed cowbird control
  • grackle or starling control

Mammal predator control may be necessary to increase the survival of the targeted species. Key native predator species may include: coyotes; raccoons; bobcats and mountain lions; while exotic predators may include wild house cats, wild dogs and wild hogs.

Fire ant control (imported red fire ants) can be used to protect native wildlife species or their food base. Treatments should comply with the label instructions and should cover at least 10 acres or one tenth of an infested area each year—whichever is more.

Controlling brown-headed cowbirds to decrease nest parasitism of targeted neotropical bird species (for example, endangered songbirds) also may be part of an overall planned program.

Grackle/starling control can be undertaken as part of a planned program to reduce bird diseases and overcrowding, which can harm the population of white-winged dove and/or other neotropical birds.