Wildlife Management Plan

Objectives

1. 40% of the mature buck harvest will score 125 BC
2. 80% fawn crop
3. Buck Harvest Recommendations:
   
   • Only one mature buck per 500 acres
   • Antlerless by permit

Habitat Management Recommendations

1. General:
   
   • Control and remove huisache.
   • Plant of maintain small clusters of brush at 130-yard intervals throughout open areas.
   • Implement a burn plan.
     • Cut and maintain twenty-foot wide fire lanes around fences and roadways.
     • Burn 20% of range land annually.
2. Vegetation:
   • Disk areas prior to spring green-up to promote forb growth.
   • Disk areas on a three year rotation (one third of the strips each year).
     • Roadsides
     • Right-of-ways
     • Along fences
     • Strips in open areas
3. Livestock Recommendations:
   
   • Rotational Grazing System.
   • Move cattle when no more than 50% of selected grasses have been consumed.

Supplemental Feeding/Food Plots Recommendations

1. Plant 1 – 3 % of property in food plots. It is better to have 10 one acre food plots than 1 ten acre food plot.
2. Plots should not be over 20 acres in size.

Population Characteristics

1. Deer:
   • 1 adult deer per 15 acres.
   • Doe to buck ratio of 2:1.
   • 80% fawn crop.
2. Coyotes:
   
   • Eliminate (Additional effort needed prior to May of each year).
3. Feral Hogs:
   
   • Eliminate

Methods Used to Determine Population Density and Composition

1. Incidental Observations (August)
2. Spotlight Survey (August)
   

Records Management

1. Harvest Data
   
   • The number of bucks and does harvested (Minimum data required to remain eligible for antlerless permits).
   • Reported and submitted on TPWD LMA Site no later than April 1.
2. Incidental Observations (August)
   
   • Reported and submitted on CDCWMA worksheet, postmarked no later than September 1.

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