Art Eatman
Staff in Memoriam
A sorta-recent change by the legislature now allows the same evaluation for wildlife land as for livestock land. You don't have to run cows to get the agricultural exemption for land value.
Not many deer around here, but quail and varmints are worthwhile. Javelina have been halfway-plentiful in some areas.
The Terlingua Ranch deal is kinda interesting. One aspect is that large areas of 20- and 40-acre tracts are owned by people who bought back around 1970 to 1975, mas o menos, and have never been to their land. Oh, maybe back when they first bought it, but not since then. So, adjoining owners trespass at will, since it seems obvious that the actual owner doesn't care. Hey, how else do you think I've been meddling around across some 25,000 acres, these last 38 years?
Out of around a thousand landowners in my playground area, there are at most twenty to thirty who ever come out and hunt. They're only here during the sixteen-day deer season. That leaves 349 days for me.
Call it "code of the west". We don't trespass anywhere near where folks actually live, or around an area with a hunt camp. The "regulars" have come to know one another, so we can avoid conflict. So far, so good, for a bunch of years.
Not many deer around here, but quail and varmints are worthwhile. Javelina have been halfway-plentiful in some areas.
The Terlingua Ranch deal is kinda interesting. One aspect is that large areas of 20- and 40-acre tracts are owned by people who bought back around 1970 to 1975, mas o menos, and have never been to their land. Oh, maybe back when they first bought it, but not since then. So, adjoining owners trespass at will, since it seems obvious that the actual owner doesn't care. Hey, how else do you think I've been meddling around across some 25,000 acres, these last 38 years?
Out of around a thousand landowners in my playground area, there are at most twenty to thirty who ever come out and hunt. They're only here during the sixteen-day deer season. That leaves 349 days for me.
Call it "code of the west". We don't trespass anywhere near where folks actually live, or around an area with a hunt camp. The "regulars" have come to know one another, so we can avoid conflict. So far, so good, for a bunch of years.