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CAN WILDLIFE MANAGEMENT INCREASES THE MONETARY VALUE OF YOUR LAND
By: Allen “horntagger” Morris
LOCATION, LOCATION, and LOCATION
The three most important items in real estate is LOCATION, LOCATION and LOCATION, or is it. As our lives get busy, as the cities get larger, and as our workdays get longer. Individuals and families are constantly trying to get away from it all.
Hunting, fishing and the great outdoors is an American tradition that millions celebrate daily throughout the country. With all the new equipment that comes out year after year only one thing is constant. We all need a place to go to enjoy hunting, fishing, or just to enjoy the outdoors.
Not only is LOCATION, LOCATION and LOCATION important but LOCATION, MANAGEMENT and WILDLIFE can become important also.
CAN QUALITY WILDLIFE EQUALS INCREASE LAND VALUE
Can more quality game animals a landowner has on his property, the more money the land is worth. How can this be true for something that can roam off your property onto the other?
Take for example two areas of land equal in size and land features and even adjacent to each other. They should appraise equally to each other.
Now, start managing for wildlife on one of the tracts of land, which means the landowner, will manage the basic three requirements for wildlife. Food, cover and water and in turn the quality of the land and habitat itself will change. The value of the land will change for what you want to enjoy.
Landowner will manage the timber on the property to increase mast production, or to increase the cover on the property by harvesting the timber on the property. The land might be lacking tree so the landowner plants pines, oaks, or an orchard.
Worthless fescue fields become native grass pastures and food plots for year-around food sources for the wildlife.
There is no way to calculate how valuable an acre of land is worth to a hunter who has a quality hunting experience or to someone that just enjoy nature.
But, anyone that leases quality hunting land with quality wildlife can and will get more per acre. If you build it they will come holds true with lease land. If the land is not managing those customer will go down the road to the next lease.
The real estate market also recognizes the value of water on your land. That is just the markets point of view on how valuable water is to land. The market does not even take into account the conservation value of it.
Watering holes or ponds become a drive thru for most of the wildlife in the area. This is even with rivers are a ½ mile away and a large pond is a ½ mile away in the other direction. By having a year round water source on your property the wildlife, don’t have to travel that ½ mile to get a drink. Instead they come to a little oasis on your land. Just think about it this way, if gas is the same price would you fill up next door or around the block if you had that choice.
June of 2004 in a REALTREE® poll on www.realtree.com. The following question was asked. “Do you feel that quality game management adds value to property?” A total of 1,341 votes where cast. 86 percent said yes and 14 percent said no. This just one example to the right person value is different.
But the real value that will never be paid with a coin. The fact that we have left the land in better shape for future generations of wildlife and future generations of us.
DEVELOPING A WRITTEN WILDLIFE AND LAND MANAGEMENT PLAN
Sorting all this out can be confusing, this is why developing a written wildlife management plan should be the first thing any landowner should do.
Developing a management plan your forest or farmland is a wise investment of time and money. Also some state and federal agency will also assist you for free in writing or reviewing a wildlife and land management plan. You can even get free brochures from them on guidelines in writing one. Even private timber companies will assist you in writing one.
If you are looking for one of the best resource in the country you need to look into the Master Wildlifer Program or Quality Deer Management Association - Deer Steward II program.
CONCLUSION
The truest statement today is “Quality game management adds value to property for a segment of the population.” The real question is how much value is added and how big a segment of the population it will be.
Hope to see you in the woods or on the water. Horntagger.
The three most important items in real estate is LOCATION, LOCATION and LOCATION, or is it. As our lives get busy, as the cities get larger, and as our workdays get longer. Individuals and families are constantly trying to get away from it all.
Hunting, fishing and the great outdoors is an American tradition that millions celebrate daily throughout the country. With all the new equipment that comes out year after year only one thing is constant. We all need a place to go to enjoy hunting, fishing, or just to enjoy the outdoors.
Not only is LOCATION, LOCATION and LOCATION important but LOCATION, MANAGEMENT and WILDLIFE can become important also.
CAN QUALITY WILDLIFE EQUALS INCREASE LAND VALUE
Can more quality game animals a landowner has on his property, the more money the land is worth. How can this be true for something that can roam off your property onto the other?
Take for example two areas of land equal in size and land features and even adjacent to each other. They should appraise equally to each other.
Now, start managing for wildlife on one of the tracts of land, which means the landowner, will manage the basic three requirements for wildlife. Food, cover and water and in turn the quality of the land and habitat itself will change. The value of the land will change for what you want to enjoy.
Landowner will manage the timber on the property to increase mast production, or to increase the cover on the property by harvesting the timber on the property. The land might be lacking tree so the landowner plants pines, oaks, or an orchard.
Worthless fescue fields become native grass pastures and food plots for year-around food sources for the wildlife.
There is no way to calculate how valuable an acre of land is worth to a hunter who has a quality hunting experience or to someone that just enjoy nature.
But, anyone that leases quality hunting land with quality wildlife can and will get more per acre. If you build it they will come holds true with lease land. If the land is not managing those customer will go down the road to the next lease.
The real estate market also recognizes the value of water on your land. That is just the markets point of view on how valuable water is to land. The market does not even take into account the conservation value of it.
Watering holes or ponds become a drive thru for most of the wildlife in the area. This is even with rivers are a ½ mile away and a large pond is a ½ mile away in the other direction. By having a year round water source on your property the wildlife, don’t have to travel that ½ mile to get a drink. Instead they come to a little oasis on your land. Just think about it this way, if gas is the same price would you fill up next door or around the block if you had that choice.
June of 2004 in a REALTREE® poll on www.realtree.com. The following question was asked. “Do you feel that quality game management adds value to property?” A total of 1,341 votes where cast. 86 percent said yes and 14 percent said no. This just one example to the right person value is different.
But the real value that will never be paid with a coin. The fact that we have left the land in better shape for future generations of wildlife and future generations of us.
DEVELOPING A WRITTEN WILDLIFE AND LAND MANAGEMENT PLAN
Sorting all this out can be confusing, this is why developing a written wildlife management plan should be the first thing any landowner should do.
Developing a management plan your forest or farmland is a wise investment of time and money. Also some state and federal agency will also assist you for free in writing or reviewing a wildlife and land management plan. You can even get free brochures from them on guidelines in writing one. Even private timber companies will assist you in writing one.
If you are looking for one of the best resource in the country you need to look into the Master Wildlifer Program or Quality Deer Management Association - Deer Steward II program.
CONCLUSION
The truest statement today is “Quality game management adds value to property for a segment of the population.” The real question is how much value is added and how big a segment of the population it will be.
Hope to see you in the woods or on the water. Horntagger.