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Hunting Leases

Overview

Few hunting, conservation, or land-use issues are as controversial as the ongoing trend toward “lease hunting.” This is not a new concept. Hunting leases have been a common practice in some states for over half a century. For landowners, farmers and ranchers, hunting leases are a means by which to generate additional income from wildlife resources that the landowners sustain through their crops and habitat maintenance. For the sportsperson, the growing number and prevalence of lease arrangements are an indication of diminishing public access opportunities and “highest-bidder” price wars that could exclude access to a lot of private land. Additionally, thriving game populations of many species rely on hunting to maintain their populations within the biological carrying capacity of the habitat. Also, big-game lease-hunting tends to target trophy animals, requiring “cull” hunts or similar strategies for population control and removal of less desirable animals. January 2008 . . . Hunting Leases

Other Links

Developing a Forest Land Hunting Lease - This website provides a tutorial and guide on preparing a hunting lease for an individual hunter or hunting club to use.
Developing a Hunting Lease: Considerations, Options and Realities, Clemson University, 1998 - Guidelines to developing a lease, examples of different leases and ways to find responsible hunters.
Dove Lease Information - Sample dove hunting lease form and a sample Release of Liability and Acknowledgment and Acceptance of Dangers, Risks and Hazards of Hunting Lease contract.
Hunting Lease Agreement, Michigan Farm Bureau - Provides a sample hunting lease.
Hunting Leases and Permits, Auburn University, 1994 - Alabama-related information on developing a lease and permits for hunters. The site contains links to a sample access permit, sample short-term hunting lease and sample season hunting lease.
Hunting Leases in Kansas, Agricultural Marketing Resource Center, Kansas State University, 2003.
Suggestions for Developing Wildlife Recreational Enterprises, Texas A&M University and Texas Parks and Wildlife Department, 1998 - Guidelines to developing a lease, examples of different leases and marketing the lease.

Links checked February 2008.

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