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The Hunters' Guide to a Successful Hunt Lease Agricultural Extension Service The University of Tennessee PB1709 The Hunters’ Guide to a Successful Hunt Lease 1 The Hunters’ Guide to a Successful Hunt Lease Advertisements can lead to more Craig Harper, Assistant Professor hunting spots. Department of Forestry, Wildlife and Fisheries, University of Tennessee Mike Black, Registered Forester Sequatchie Forest and Wildlife, Jasper, TN FARMERS: Are you losing money ost information concerning hunt leases is directed toward landowners and how they because deer are M might find the “right” hunting group to earn additional income by leasing the hunting eating your rights on their property. Unfortunately, little information is available to help you (the hunter) soybeans? I will pay YOU to help find and/or manage a hunt lease. Many hunting clubs have disbanded because of disputes get rid of some of with landowners, each other and/or neighboring clubs or groups. Still more have had high the deer! (phone expectations for their club, only to be disappointed when attempts to manage the club and number) associated lands fail. If you fall into one of these categories, or plan to lease land for hunting in the near future, HOMEOWNERS: continue reading. Following the steps listed below should help you meet your goals and Are deer eating enjoy a quality hunting experience. Before starting, it is important to realize that some steps your flowers and are more applicable to certain properties than others, and that each lease has its own set of shrubbery? Call “problems.” For example, properties leased for hunting vary widely, from a 100-acre farm for help! (phone tract with 75 percent open ground surrounded by suburbia, to a 10,000 (or more)-acre tract number) of unbroken forest, to a three-acre beaver pond leased for duck hunting. Are BEAVERS flooding your Finding the “best” property crops or timber? I will help recover your loss by inding the right piece of property to with landowners regularly and are reliable F lease for hunting can be difficult. sources of information. County Extension paying to duck Landowners rarely advertise their wish to agents, in particular, may be familiar with hunt! (phone lease property for hunting in the local farmers who are interested in earning number) newspaper, but that should not keep you additional income through “alternative” from advertising your desire to lease prop- sources, such as a hunt lease. Another Interest among erty for hunting. Deer hunters may be contact for deer/duck hunters is the local landowners really surprised at how many calls they get from Farm Bureau office. This office may have an increases when farmers or homeowners who are having up-to-date list of landowners in the county they realize the their soybeans or azaleas eaten by deer. who are experiencing problems with crop income from a Duck hunters can do the same, asking depredation and flooding. Also, visit corpo- duck lease is landowners if beavers are flooding their rate timberland offices to obtain information usually higher than crops or timberland. Interest among land- on their hunt lease arrangements. the monetary value owners really increases when they realize A common mistake many hunters make of a few acres of the income from a duck lease is usually is leasing the first property that becomes lost timber or corn! higher than the monetary value of a few available. Disappointment usually follows acres of lost timber or corn! when they find little game or problems Another approach to finding potential associated with poaching, trespassing and/ properties is to visit with county Extension or access. Some hunters fail to walk the agents and district conservationists with the property before signing a lease agreement Natural Resources Conservation Service and are surprised when they discover the (NRCS). These professionals are in contact topography is a series of hogback ridges 3 with steep ravines that provide little area for (if that is a goal) or stable wild turkey food plots or old field management. You populations already exist. If you are a duck should always walk over the property to hunter, look for areas within established evaluate it for yourself before entering into a flyways – naturally, this is where most of the lease agreement. ducks are going to be found in any given It is also important to find out if the year. If this is not possible, or you wish to Lessee = you, property has been leased in the past. If so, stay near home, there are other factors to the hunter. by whom? Why is the property not leased consider as well. now? Calling those who leased the property You will not find quality hunting in areas Lessor = the previously will provide additional information with poor habitat or land-use practices that landowner. to make your decision. Some clubs cannot offer a low carrying capacity and poor maintain a lease for more than a year nutrition. Extensively forested areas with without internal problems splitting the group. little early successional habitat do not For those inter- At the same time, some landowners do not support the number of deer, turkeys, quail or ested in a quality make good partnerships, regardless of how rabbits found in areas with a diversity of deer management accommodating the lessees are. Checking habitat types. These areas offer ample food (QDM) program, on the past history of property that has been and cover resources throughout the year. property size is a leased is important and can help you in Usually, a mix of mast-producing hardwoods primary making an informed decision. The county interspersed with agricultural crops (e.g., consideration. wildlife officer also may be able to provide corn, soybeans and/or alfalfa), old fields and If a tract of appro- useful information. Next, visit with adjacent brushy cover offer quality hunting for a priate size and property owners and lease holders. See variety of species. shape is not what kind of land and wildlife management For those interested in a quality deer available, you practices they are implementing and ask if management (QDM) program, property size should consider poaching and trespassing are real problems. is a primary consideration. [Note: for those forming a QDM This may impact your final evaluation. interested in QDM, refer to Quality Deer cooperative Consider the region in which you would Management: Guidelines for Implementa- agreement with like to lease property. For example, deer tion, PB 1643, available at your county surrounding hunters shouldn’t expect to see mature deer Extension office.] Properties that are not landowners/ in areas where they are uncommon! Study large enough to encompass several indi- lesees. harvest records available from the wildlife vidual buck home ranges (at least 2,000 agency in the state you wish to hunt and find contiguous acres), that are linear in shape the region or counties where mature deer or that are bisected by county roads and highways may produce less than anticipated results. If a tract of appropriate size and shape is not available, or you and your hunting buddies cannot afford to lease an area this size, then ask property owners adjoining the tract you are considering what type of deer management is implemented on their property. You may be able to form a QDM cooperative agreement. Certainly, you will be more satisfied with property sur- rounded by like-minded neighbors or where hunting is not allowed (e.g., a state park). One final consideration is the land- owner. It is paramount that lessees get along with and communicate with the landowner. Remember, you do not own the land, but are only paying for the right It is important to remember that you do not own to access and hunt on it. A good relation- the land, but are only paying for the right to access ship with the landowner can improve your and hunt on the property. A good relationship with leasing situation substantially. For example, the landowner will help ensure a successful cooperation might mean the difference in hunting lease. 4 getting spring turkey hunting rights included actually needed to maintain an obvious along with deer hunting in the lease agree- presence on the property. After 2 – 3 years, ment. By working with the landowner, trespassing pressure usually subsides and helping when and where appropriate, and membership can be lowered. not abusing the lease agreement, he or she will be much more willing to allow you (and perhaps even help) to implement habitat Trespassing is a improvement practices. Cultivating a good perennial problem relationship with the landowner can be just for most hunt clubs as productive as cultivating the land when it and leased proper- comes to meeting your management goals ties. It is essential and objectives. For deer hunters, construct- that the boundary ing a successful hunt club lease can be analogous to building a house. The relation- lines of the property ship with the landowner is the footer; be identified and property management is the block founda- marked appropri- tion; club management is the subfloor; ately with paint and habitat management is the frame and roof; Posting boundary signs and monitoring signs explaining the and deer (population) management is the large acreages is much easier if an ad- land has been interior finish. equate road system (including ATV trails) leased and identify- exists. Marking boundaries can be a prob- ing the club (or Property management lem on tracts that are vastly forested, landowner) with a especially in mountainous terrain. A lack of contact address roads or trails may make certain areas of nce you have found the “perfect” the property inaccessible to some club and/or phone property, it’s time to set the guide- O members and definitely limits habitat number.
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