Wildlife Tax Exemption

Our Wildlife Biologist can convert your agricultural exemption to a wildlife exemption.
In 1995, Texas voters approved Proposition 11,  which allowed for the agricultural appraisal for land used to manage wildlife.  This allowed Texas landowners the option of converting their current agricultural exemption to a wildlife exemption if certain conditions were met.

The Tax Code, defines wildlife management as:

Actively using land that at the time the wildlife management began was appraised as qualified open-space land under this subchapter in at least three of the following ways to propagate a sustaining breeding, migrating, or wintering population of indigenous wild animals for human use, including food, medicine, or recreation:

(A) habitat control;

(B) erosion control;

(C) predator control;

(D) providing supplemental supplies of water;

(E) providing supplemental supplies of food;

(F) providing shelters; and

(G) making census counts to determine population.