Texas LAND Winter 2015

ON THE COVER

BARREL SPRINGS RANCH EXPANSIVE VIEWS CHARACTERIZE THE 30,770-ACRE RANCH ENCOMPASSING JEFF DAVIS, PRESIDIO & DAVIS COUNTIES THE DUPERIER TEXAS LANDMAN

SHOWCASE BROCHURE MORRISS RANCH

3,100 ACRES SPANNING REAL & EDWARDS COUNTIES HOOD REAL ESTATE INC

SHOWCASE BROCHURE STRINGFELLOW RANCH

10,500 ACRES SITUATED IN BREWSTER COUNTY STRINGFELLOW RANCH SALES

CATALOG 420+ EXCEPTIONAL LISTINGS FROM ALL OVER TEXAS

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LIFESTYLE JOSHUA CREEK RANCH

THE KERCHEVILLE FAMILY HAS WROUGHT THEIR RANCH INTO ONE OF THE CROWN JEWELS OF TEXAS HUNTING

LOCAL FOOD, LOCAL RANCHERS

TEXAS RANCHING OPERATIONS THAT ARE SELLING DIRECTLY TO CONSUMERS AND RESTAURANTS

BACCHUS CAVES

BRINGING ONE-OF-A-KIND LUXURY CAVES TO TEXAS

THE STARS ARE BIG AND BRIGHT IN TEXAS LANDSOFAMERICAMAGAZINES.COM

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AN ENJOYMENT OF LIVING IN THE COUNTRY IS ABUNDANT CLEAR NIGHT SKY

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Serving agriculture for over 36,317 days

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THE LIFESTYLE ISSUE WINTER 2015 FEATURES

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STEWARDING A SHARED VISON

GAS AND OIL GONE GREEN

Despite a 30-year age difference, David Burgher and Harlan Ray, principals in the Dallas-based BurgherRay Ranch Sales Group at Briggs Freeman Sotheby’s International Realty, are remarkably similar when it comes to the things that matter most.

Did you know there are ways to balance oil and gas production with conservation?

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Ron and Susi Bell, founders of Wildgoose Manufacturing in Ingram, Texas, love outdoor experiences and outdoor people.

LOCAL FOOD, LOCAL RANCHERS If you live in the Lone Star State and you prefer food grown here, you’re not alone. More and more consumers are seeking locally sourced produce and meats. And some are even willing to pay extra for food raised within a few counties of home.

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Recognizing that natural resource illiteracy was an active threat to the future of the state’s natural resources, TWA initiated Conservation Legacy, an education program designed to reach Texans of all ages.

BORN IN SCOTLAND RAISED IN TEXAS If any state in the union owns up to family sagas, it’s Texas. And that’s where we met the Kerchevilles while shooting pheasant, chukar, quail and Hungarian Partridge at their Joshua Creek Ranch.

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Preparing for bowhunters is a different challenge than preparing for rifle hunters. Find ways to meet the needs of any bowhunters who may be hunting on your property.

BACCUS CAVES: BRINGING LUXURY CAVES TO TEXAS

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Since 1997, Bacchus Caves founder, David Provost and his team of experienced underground professionals, have continuously developed the one of a kind luxurious experience of cave building and design.

WOTUS STAY: WHAT DOES IT MEAN? On October 9th of this year the United States Court Of Appeals for the 6th Circuit Court issued an “Order Of Stay” for the entire United States.

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STARS ARE BIG AND BRIGHT IN THE COUNTRY

YOUR BRAND IS MORE THAN A MARK

An enjoyment of living in the country is abundant clear night sky, usually more than seen in urban settings.

As most of us look at the multitude of bright stars twinkling in a black sky, we suddenly want to know more about them.

You know what it takes build a strong business. Hard work. Long hours. Delivering value. Building trust.

Whether you work with livestock or the land you love, your brand is more than just a mark.

SHOWCASE

BROCHURE

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The 3,100±-acre Morriss Ranch, located 45 minutes from Kerrville, is a living legacy to pioneering stewardship. (Following page 48)

Expansive views characterize the 30,770-acre Barrel Springs Ranch, located just 18 miles northwest of Marfa and 20 miles west of Fort Davis, Texas.

LIVING LEGEND: MORRISS RANCH

BARREL OF OPPORTUNITY: BARREL SPRINGS RANCH

BROCHURE

RANCHING TRADITION: STRINGFELLOW RANCH This 10,500-acre, West Texas ranch is located in the majestic Davis Mountain Range. (Following page 96)

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FROM THE EDITOR

Hold Tightly....

“Learn to hold loosely all that is not eternal.”

- A.M. ROYDEN

TOM ALEXANDER Publisher LAURET JARVIS Editor-in-Chief & Creative Director SYLVIA DANG Project Manager & Designer BRITTANY GILLEN Project Manager & Designer ELIZABETH STONE Project Manger & Designer

CAMERON STEWART General Manager ANDREW CAMPBELL Sales Manager DANIEL SHORT Lead Developer FRANK RODRIGUEZ Partner Manager JASON ADAME Territory Manager KELLY BAILEY Territory Manager DON BARKS Advertising Sales NICHOLE BUECHLER Senior Operations Manager ANTHONY CHAPPELLE Senior Territory Manager PHIL EVANS Territory Manager DUSTIN FREDLEY Client Services

It’s winter, but I’m on my deck watching the sun push its way above the horizon.

The only thing more spectacular than the blanket of colors unfolding across the sky is the steaming cup of coffee in my hand.

BRANNON HIGHTOWER Software Engineer

It’s quiet, but not silent. As the world wakes up, Mother Nature cranks up the volume. The breeze rattles empty limbs. Birds, the ones who didn’t leave, fuss.

To my soul, it’s a symphony rising to a grand crescendo.

ANDREW SHOWELL Quality Assurance

The moment will disappear, but the memory—and the land upon which it was made—will remain. The land is where legacies come to life. The land is where the love of family and friends is expressed. The land is eternal.

JEFF NIVIN Software Developer KEVIN MORGENSTERN Territory Manager KAREN SETTER Client Services JUSTIN SIMONS Senior Territory Manager TODD POWERS Territory Manager GRANT TAYLOR Product Manager NICHOLAS VRABEL Territory Manager LYNNE ZAROSKY Client Services

Find your perfect piece of property. Hold tightly to it—and to the people with whom you choose to share it.

This holiday season, count the blessings of open spaces and open arms.

Celebrate the lifestyle born of the land.

Lauret Jarvis Editor-in-Chief Lauret@LandsofAmerica.com

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Expansive views characterize the 30,770-acre Barrel Springs Ranch, located just 18 miles northwest of Marfa and 20 miles west of Fort Davis, Texas.

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arrel Springs, named by settlers who would fill their water barrels here on the way out west, is located on the northeast side of the ranch in the foothills of the Davis Mountains and drains in a southerly direction through the property.

A true working cattle ranch, Barrel Springs, through decades of intensive habitat management and infrastructure planning, has developed an ecosystem beneficial to livestock, wildlife, and recreational use alike.

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The terrain of the ranch is characterized as somewhat rugged along the foothills and turns to gently rolling hills as you travel west-southwest into the Ryan Flats.

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ON THE COVER

Improvements include a main house, swimming pool, two guest houses, vintage school house, vehicle barn, foreman’s house, barn with horse stalls, equipment barn, aircraft hangar, 3,500-foot paved runway, and two additional homes. The ranch is fenced into 37 pastures and includes 72 watering stations strategically placed throughout the ranch for the benefit of livestock and wildlife. Wildlife species include mule deer, pronghorn antelope, aoudad, and quail.

DETAILS PROPERTY BARREL SPRINGS RANCH 30,770± Acres // Jeff Davis, Presidio and Davis Counties CONTACT FOR PRICE CONTACT THE DUPERIER TEXAS LANDMAN Trip duPerier / Broker // (830) 755–5205 // Texas-LandMan.com view all properties: LandsofTexas.com/member/34454

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CONTRIBUTORS

LORIE WOODWARD CANTU has worked as a writer and public relations practitioner exploring the intersection of agriculture, natural resources, and public policy for almost 30 years. Her career, which has included stints in the public and private sector, has taken her across the country and around the world, where she has been enthralled by the people of the land and their stories. She is the president of Woodward Communications and co-owner of The Round Top Register, a regional magazine focused on life in the rolling bluebonnet hills of central Texas where country meets city. Cantu was reared on a ranch near Lexington, Texas, but now makes her home in San Angelo with her husband, Ruben, who is a wildlife biologist, and their two children, Kate and Will.

MIKE CIESIENSKY is the owner of LandBrokerWebsites.com, a Crystalcore.net division. His passion to simplify our lives with technology was fueled by more than 10 years of writing internetbased applications in the late 90’s and early 2000s. Launching his own website development company in 2010, land and ranch brokers, who make up nearly half of his client portfolio today, value his ability to understand their business objectives and create websites to meet them. Mike has led more than 12 global expeditions to Romania, developing teams of teenagers and adults to serve and minister to orphans and others in need. Mike lives in Dallas with his beautiful wife, Kasey, and their three children.

FARM CREDIT BANK OF TEXAS, headquartered in Austin, Texas, is a cooperatively owned wholesale bank that is part of the nationwide Farm Credit System.

Their mission is to enhance the quality of life in rural America by using cooperative principles to provide competitive credit and superior service to our customers. Find out more at FarmCreditBank.com.

IRWIN GREENSTEIN is the publisher of Shotgun Life, the first online magazine dedicated to the best in wing and clays shooting.

ROBERT FEARS was raised in Texas where he worked as a cowboy on various ranches during high school and undergraduate studies.

He holds a BS degree in agricultural sciences from Sam Houston State University and a MS in Range Ecology from Utah State University.

Robert spent two years as livestock manager for the Government of Guam and 33 years in product development for Dow AgroSciences.

After retirement from Dow, he chaired the Williamson County Appraisal Review for six years and developed a freelance writing business with his wife, Janelle. The couple writes magazine and newsletter articles, product literature and web material.

DR. CHARLES GILLILAND currently holds an appointment as a Research Economist with the Real Estate Center in the Mays School and an appointment as Adjunct Associate Professor of Agricultural Economics at Texas A&M University. In addition, Dr. Gilliland is Helen and O.N. Mitchell Fellow of Real Estate and a Clinical Professor of Finance teaching real estate investment analysis for the Master of Real Estate program in the Mays School at Texas A&M University.

SHOTGUN LIFE is the first online magazine devoted to the great people who participate in the shotgun sports. Their goal is to provide you with the best coverage in wing and clays shooting. That includes places to shoot, ways to improve your shooting and the latest new products. Everything you need to know about the shotgun sports is a mouse-click away.

That’s because Shotgun Life is your dynamic resource for the most current and useful information as it becomes available. You no longer have to wait months to receive quality articles about the shotgun sports. Instead, their goal is to make Shotgun Life efficient, entertaining and enlightening -- giving you the information you need instantly. Shotgun Life is free and you can see it at ShotgunLife.com.

GREG SIMONS received a B.S. degree in Wildlife and Fisheries Sciences in 1987 from Texas A&M University and soon after formed Wildlife Systems, Inc., a company that currently manages hunting operations on over 800,000 acres of private land in Texas and New Mexico. He is also co-owner of Wildlife Consultants, LLC, providing technical assistance to landowners and other entities on habitat management and other wildlife-related issues. Greg served as President of Texas Wildlife Association through July 2015.

DAN HATFIELD grew up in the small rural community of Medina in western Bandera County, Texas. He attended both Texas A&M University and the University of Texas where his primary studies were in Political Science. He is an avid outdoor enthusiast, hunter, fisherman, kayaker, camp cook, photographer, etc.

JIM SULLIVAN currently serves as the VP of Business Development for Forever Forests, a land conservation firm based in the Greater Atlanta area. As a private conservation project manager, Forever Forests serves Land Owners, Family Offices and High Net Worth Individuals in realizing the tax savings benefits of preserving meaningful open spaces for generations to come. With over $600 million in real estate asset values placed in conservation, Forever Forests is a leader in the strategic structuring of land conservation projects. They employ a creative approach to achieving the varied objectives of their clients while helping them receive all the economic benefits they deserve. As VP of Business Development, Jim intersects with the broader financial services and “Impact Investing” community to advance the cause of conservation, assisting families, individuals & corporations in realizing the best economic outcomes associated with Land Conservation. Find out more at ForeverForests.net.`

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BROKER SPOTLIGHT

Stewarding a Shared Vision Despite a 30-year age difference, David Burgher and Harlan Ray, principals in the Dallas-based Burgher-Ray Ranch Sales Group at Briggs Freeman Sotheby’s International Realty, are remarkably similar when it comes to the things that matter most.

WRITTEN BY LORIE WOODWARD CANTU

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ur core values are faith, family and friends,” said Burgher, who founded the Ranch & Land Division at Briggs Freeman in 2011. “Our business principles, which are built on honesty, integrity and respect, reflect the tenets of our faith— and we try to treat our clients like family and friends, striving to put their needs first at all times.”

They also share a passion for the land, especially Texas.

“I can’t think of a higher privilege than owning land and being a steward, especially in Texas with our storied heritage and legacy of private ownership,” Ray said. “As ranch brokers, we bring people the rare opportunity to make sound financial investments that are also investments in lifestyle and their own personal legacies.”

One of Burgher’s favorite activities is introducing clients to the state’s diversity.

“When we get people out of the city, especially those who aren’t native Texans, the diversity of the state blows their minds,” Burgher said. “Most people are used to being in a place where you can have one or two ecosystems, so when they get to choose from the Pineywoods, the Panhandle, the Trans-Pecos, the Hill Country, the Brush Country, the Coast and Central Texas it’s eye opening.”

While they consider property within a three-hour drive of Dallas, the firm’s “back yard,” the ranch sales group does business across the state.

The Similarities The similarities don’t stop with their love of the land. Both men are lifelong Dallas residents. Burgher’s ancestors arrived in the area in the 1840s. Ray is the third generation to call Dallas home.

After raising their five children in Dallas, Burgher and his wife, Pam, now split their time between their country place in Bosque County and the city. Ray got his taste for country life in Bosque County on his

grandfather’s ranch near Valley Mills.

“A perfect day ends with an awesome sunset with a big sky,” Burgher said. “There’s something about being in the country that allows you to focus on what’s important and be at peace. Plus, when you live on the land, you have to deal with the things at hand, so you’re constantly learning new skills and becoming more self-reliant, which is empowering.”

And then there is their passion for the outdoors. In a perfect world, Burgher and Ray would spend every day afield. They are avid hunters with wing-shooting being a particular passion for both. After a lifetime of hunting, Burgher laughingly admits to being “a lot less mad at big mammals than I once was.” Ray is a serious saltwater fly fisherman who has convinced his wife of two years, Melissa, to select their vacation spots based on fly fishing opportunities. Burgher is learning the art of fly fishing from his son who is a professional fly fishing guide.

“Hunting and fishing is less about what you take and what you catch and more about what you get to see when you’re outdoors,” Ray said. “Nature is full of wonders if we stop and pay attention to the intricacies. It’s incredible to witness.”

They both enjoy horses, but through very different disciplines. Burgher’s wife Pam practiced the English disciplines of hunter jumper and dressage, but has switched to western pleasure so she can enjoy horseback riding with her husband. Ray is a team roper. He took the advice of a mentor and “focused on one end of the steer” becoming a header. To date, he hasn’t a lost finger to an errant dally, a well-known hazard of the sport. This is important because he’s also a gifted guitar player.

And for the record, they truly appreciate their wives.

“We’re able to do what we do because of the love and support of our wives,” Ray said. “They understand the unpredictable nature of this business and make it possible for us to meet the needs of our clients.”

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Warren and Ray riding on the banks of the Brazos in Palo Pinto County, TX

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The Beginning With so many things in common, it was almost inevitable that Burgher and Ray’s paths would cross. They did thanks to the persistence of Michael Stewart, who is Burgher’s brotherin-law and a volunteer with Ray at Young Life, a weekly ministry for teens. He knew both men would connect through real estate as well as many other interests.

“Stewart kept saying, ‘You need to meet Burgher. You guys have a lot in common,’” Ray said. “I had a great job working in commercial real estate in my dad’s firm, so I just kept putting it off. I wasn’t looking for something else.”

Ray’s father Robert Ray, also a long-time real Dallas estate broker, had known Burgher for several years and encouraged his son to meet with Burgher after he started the Briggs Freeman Ranch & Land Division.

When Burgher and Ray finally met for coffee, the meeting lasted for several hours and the conversation ranged from professional goals to faith, family, friends, hobbies and the world situation. They discovered they were standing on a lot of common ground including varied real estate experience.

Between the two of them, they had experience in commercial and ranch real estate, appraisals, development, and oil and gas.

“We had a wealth of diverse experience that we could

bring to bear on the ranch real estate industry,” Burgher said.

“Life is about continually learning new things and applying your knowledge in new arenas.”

Soon after, Burgher who was managing the Ranch & Land Division at Briggs Freeman, offered Ray a job.

“When I told my dad, who I was working with at the time, about the offer, he said, ‘What are you going to do with that great opportunity?’” Ray said. “I answered, ‘I believe I’ll do it.’”

Burgher and Ray quickly gravitated toward one another and began working on deals together.

“From the beginning, it was just easy,” Burgher said. “I knew he would handle clients and business the way I would handle clients and business. We didn’t force the relationship, we inherently trusted each other.”

And, they enjoyed each other’s company.

“We laugh a lot—and sometimes it’s not even appropriate,” Ray said. “We take our work seriously, but ourselves not so much. When your job is fun, no day ever seems like work.”

After several years of managing the Briggs Freeman ranch team, Burgher wanted to get back to selling real estate. When Burgher stepped down as manager, he and Ray agreed the next logical step for them both was formalizing their working relationship.

“We envisioned a group that could deliver the customer service of a tiny boutique agency and the marketing power of an internationally recognized firm, so the Burgher-Ray Ranch Sales Group was born,” Burgher said.

Today, the Burgher-Ray group has grown to include their assistant Barbara Kurilecz and Ranch Sales associates Tyler Thomas and Clayton Warren.

“We’ve expanded so we can all back each other up and provide clients’ top-notch service at their convenience,” Ray said.

They couple this with the marketing power of Sotheby’s International, which offers avenues unavailable at other brokerages. Sotheby’s International offers an international website, exclusive New York Times and Wall Street Journal websites, as well as the Biggs Freeman network. In addition, there is access to a cadre of 400 residential agents affiliated with Sotheby’s International, which is a prime source for referrals.

The combination has proven effective. The group earned Top Producing Ranch Sales Team 2014; individual Top Ranch Sales Associates in 2012, 2013 and 2014; and D Best Realtors in 2012, 2013 and 2014. Their clients have included international buyers from Australia, Mexico and China. Plus, a host of out-of-state buyers who are interested in staking claim in Texas.

Success has not brought complacency nor arrogance.

“Every day is different. Every client is different. Every

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David Burgher FAVORITE STRETCH OF HIGHWAY IN TX: HWY 6 between Clifton & Meridian FAVORITE LOCAL EATERY: Mitchell’s - Clifton, TX FAVORITE THING TO DO OUTSIDE: Horseback with my wife

Harlan Ray FAVORITE STRETCH OF HIGHWAY IN TX: HWY 22 between Hamilton & Meridian FAVORITE LOCAL EATERY: Lone Star Bar & Grill - Canyon, TX FAVORITE THING TO DO OUTSIDE: On horseback or fly fishing

Barbara Kurilecz FAVORITE STRETCH OF HIGHWAY IN TX: SH 16 from PK to US 180 west of Palo Pinto FAVORITE LOCAL EATERY: Hammonds’s BBQ - Glen Rose, TX FAVORITE THING TO DO OUTSIDE: Bike riding & kayaking

Clayton Warren FAVORITE STRETCH OF HIGHWAY IN TX: HWY 118 between Alpine & Terlingua FAVORITE LOCAL EATERY: La Familia Mexican Restaurant - Junction, TX FAVORITE THING TO DO OUTSIDE: Riding fine horses through new country

Tyler Thomas FAVORITE STRETCH OF HIGHWAY IN TX: HWY 337 between Medina & Camp Wood FAVORITE LOCAL EATERY: Pecan Lodge - Dallas, TX FAVORITE THING TO DO OUTSIDE: Fish & Hunt

Thomas bass fishing in Bosque County, TX

property is different,” Burgher said. “We approach each client and each property individually with the expectation of success.

To do that, we strive to make the most of our talents and gifts while using our clients’ best interests as our guiding force.”

While the team has scored notable successes like the sale of the 35,643-acre Bitter Creek Ranch in Donley and Hall counties, the brokers steer the conversation away from the particulars of a deal to the unique features of the property or the outstanding characteristics of the people involved. They talk animatedly about the “high-end horse property just 45 minutes from downtown Dallas,” the Robinson Ranch that was “homesteaded in 1885,” the ranch that was “the site of Indian raids described in Empire of the Summer Moon [a novel by S.C. Gwynne],” and that “beautiful place on the Brazos River with the lodge decorated in Ralph Lauren featuring mounts from all over the world, and the clients who were incredible to work with and have become dear friends.” But they conscientiously protect the privacy of all involved.

“Our business is taking care of people, which includes being discreet,” Ray said.

Burgher added, “If you take care of clients and put their needs at the top of the heap, then everything else falls into place—including referrals.”

While they are in the business of helping clients buy or sell real estate, they also serve as a bridge between urban and rural Texas. Burgher and Ray are a repository of knowledge that can help new landowners prepare to become land stewards.

“If you’ve never managed rural property before, there are a lot of questions,” Burgher said. The duo familiarizes themselves with the resources in any given area to help point

their clients toward the most reputable fence builders or bull dozer operators or building contractors. They know the local expert agency professionals who can answer questions about hunting and fishing, range management, livestock management or construction. And they can point people in the direction of the best local cuisine.

“Sometimes people just want to know where to find the best cheeseburger in town,” Ray said. “Little things can make a big difference.”

The duo believes the long-term outlook for ranch real estate in Texas strong.

“While there may be ups and downs in the market, we believe the long-term demand for rural real estate is going to remain strong,” Ray said.

One reason is simply supply and demand. In 1950 there were 7.7 million people in the state, but by 2012 there were 26.2 million people in Texas. By 2050, populations is expected to reach northward of 50 million people.

“As our cities grow, so does the demand for places for people to get away from it all,” Burgher said. “And the slice of rural land available will continue to get smaller, translating into the potential for a significant return on investment.”

While the team never loses sight of the business side of ranch real estate, they focus on a much bigger picture.

“We’re called to be good stewards of time, of finances, of land and natural resources, and of relationships,” Ray said.

“The responsibility of stewardship doesn’t encompass just one thing. When you pick up the mantle of stewardship, it challenges you to be all you can be in every facet of your life and to bring your best to bear for others.”

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DEEP TEXAS ROOTS, MULTI-GENERATIONAL, THE NAME IN TEXAS RANCH SALES The Burgher-Ray Ranch Sales team was formed with the intention of serving our clients to the best of our ability with over 50 years of combined real estate experience. With backgrounds in Oil & Gas, Appraisal, Development, Commercial, Ranch and Residential real estate, the Burgher-Ray Team brings real-life knowledge to the table when assisting their clients. Combining cutting-edge marketing that includes sophisticated mapping technology and professional photography to showcase property with the old-fashioned art of building relationships is the hallmark of the multi-generational Burgher-Ray Team. Led by David Burgher and Harlan Ray, this premier Ranch Brokerage Team is a part of the Briggs Freeman Sotheby’s International Realty firm.

BARBARA KURILECZ

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HARLAN RAY

214.908.7770 hray@briggsfreeman.com

DAVID BURGHER

214.213.8715 dburgher@briggsfreeman.com

CLAYTON WARREN

214.493.1056 cwarren@briggsfreeman.com

TYLER THOMAS

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LIFESTYLE

trends TEXAS IS CHILI COUNTRY A Brief History with Recipes

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Texans love to eat, and one dish they can’t get enough of is chili—so much so that chili con carne is Texas’s state meal. Texas Is Chili Country is a brief look at the favored fare—its colorful history, its many incarnations, and the ways it has spread both across the country and the world. Published by Texas Tech University Press • www.ttupress.org

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Four cowboys ride 16 Mustangs 3,000 miles through the wildest terrain in the American West to inspire conservation efforts and prove the worth of 50,000 wild horses and burros living in holding pens.

UNBRANDEDTHEFILM.COM FINDING THE GREAT WESTERN TRAIL

by Sylvia Gann Mahoney

Finding the Great Western Trail is the documentation of a multi-city, multi-state project to mark the Great Western Cattle Trail from South Texas to Canada. The forthcoming publication of Mahoney’s book is particularly timely, as the Great Western Trail and the Chisholm Trail are the subjects of an ongoing Feasibility Study and Environmental Assessment. The feasibility study, to be completed by the National Park Service, will meet the intent of legislation passed by Congress to consider adding the Chisholm and Great Western cattle trails to the National Trails System. If successful, the Great Western and Chisholm trails will be the first cattle trails to be designated as National Trails.

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Local Food, Local Ranchers

This holiday season, will the turkey on your table come from Texas? Will your wine be made from West Texas grapes and your sweet potatoes grown in East Texas? And don’t forget Ruby Red grapefruit from the Rio Grande Valley.

Mark Matson

If you live in the Lone Star State and you prefer food grown here, you’re not alone. More and more consumers are seeking locally sourced produce and meats. And some are even willing to pay extra for food raised within a few counties of home.

“As consumer awareness is growing about the value of knowing where your food comes from — and its impact on your personal health, the health of your family, the health of your local economy and ultimately, the health of our planet — more people are embracing local food producers and artisans as a verification of authenticity and food security,” says Marla Camp, founder and publisher of Edible Austin magazine, which has championed the Central Texas local-foods scene since 2007.

Jim and Kay Richardson

Richardson Farms Rockdale, Texas

It’s a trend that’s not lost on restaurants, farmers and ranchers. Edible Austin’s website lists nearly 90 Austinarea restaurants that use predominantly local food in their cooking. As more and more restaurants tout the sources of their ingredients, an increasing number of producers — from traditional large ranches to new, small-scale farms — are stepping up to directly supply this market.

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Learn about three Texas ranching operations that are doing just that — selling directly to consumers and restaurants, instead of marketing through the typical channels.

As a veterinarian, Dr. Jim Richardson understands animal behavior. He knows, for instance, that pigs like their space — that they need to root and wallow and that they become stressed if they are crowded. He is also keenly aware that a growing number of consumers care about how their food is raised.

Thus, when he and his wife, Kay, started marketing their hormone-free, pasture-raised pork, beef and poultry at farmers markets and restaurants, they invited chefs and customers to visit their Milam County agricultural operation.

Today, Richardson Farms meats are served in 22 Central Texas restaurants. Their products, including free-range eggs and heirloom cornmeal, are also sold through 10 stores or delivery services from Houston to Fredericksburg to Dallas, as well as at farmers markets in Houston, Austin, Georgetown and Waco.

“We realized that there was a growing consumer demand for wholesome, homegrown products. So we listened,” Richardson says. “Our customers can come to our farm and see what we do.

They trust us, and they appreciate what we do.”

It’s an approach that the Richardsons’ agricultural lender, Lone Star Ag Credit, applauds.

“They recognized a demand for locally produced food, and implemented the production practices and creative marketing plan necessary to successfully serve this sector,” says Justin Wiethorn, regional president with Lone Star Ag Credit.

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Ranger Cattle Austin, Texas

While taking a course in entrepreneurship at the University of Texas, cattle producer Josh Eilers, 27, developed a new plan for marketing his high-value Wagyu beef: He would sell the finely marbled meat directly to restaurants and cut out the middleman.

“I wanted to raise the cattle on Austin grass, feed them Austin grass, have them processed here and sell them to Austin restaurants,” says Eilers, a U.S. Army Ranger veteran who leases pastureland on the edge of Austin for his Wagyu seedstock and beef operation.

But shortly after he started calling on local restaurants in 2014, Eilers found himself in a predicament: He had more beef orders than he could fill. To meet the demand, he quickly purchased several head of finished Wagyu cattle and began to expand his breeding herd with financing from Capital Farm Credit.

Jason Jacoby, second from right, at Jacoby’s Café in Melvin

Jacoby’s

So far, the ranch-to-restaurant recipe is a win-win for Eilers and his customers. After all, it doesn’t get any more local than beef raised just 25 minutes from the Texas State Capitol.

At Jacoby’s Restaurant and Mercantile in East Austin’s emerging dining district, manager Adam Jacoby and his staff make it a priority to tell patrons where their stuffed Salisbury steak and seasonal lamb specials come from.

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Now, just over a year later, Wagyu beef from his Ranger Cattle operation is served at five Austin restaurants: Barley Swine, Hasler Brothers Steakhouse, Hill Country Galleria Restaurant, Odd Duck and Posse East. He also sells Wagyu beef online and at a farmers market.

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“People are definitely curious. They want to know that the animal was taken care of and fed the right way,” says Adam, who grew up showing and caring for livestock on his family’s farm and ranch at Melvin, Texas.

With the opening of the restaurant last year, the Jacoby family took the phrase “ranch to restaurant” to a new level. The longtime ranchers not only produce the lamb and beef, they also own and operate the restaurant.

It is a part of a vertically integrated agricultural business run

by Jason Jacoby and sons Holden, Reece, Dylan and Adam.

Over the years, their operation has expanded to include agribusiness enterprises and the Jacoby’s Café in Melvin, which Adam remodeled after graduating from college.

It was the success of the café that convinced them to start an urban restaurant, where they could highlight vegetables from Austin farms and their own Jacoby Brand dry-aged beef from Melvin — an idea supported by their lender, Central Texas Farm Credit.

“It is important to me that the servers tell our guests where the ranch is, what the family is about and where the beef is coming from,” says Adam. “People have been so welcoming and have given us a chance to tell the Jacoby story. They have really embraced it.”

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BORN IN SCOTLAND RAISED IN TEXAS Wingshooting at the Beretta Trident Joshua Creek Ranch

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BROKER SPOTLIGHT LIFESTYLE WRITTEN BY IRWIN GREENSTEIN ORIGINALLY PUBLISHED IN SHOTGUN LIFE

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f any state in the union owns up to family sagas, it’s Texas. And that’s where we met the Kerchevilles while shooting pheasant, chukar, quail and Hungarian Partridge at their Joshua Creek Ranch.

By sheer force of will and two generations of commitment to the land and its clientele, the Kercheville family has wrought their ranch into one of the crown jewels of Texas hunting. The architecture, cuisine and furnishings elevate the spirit of Texas Hill Country into a hunter’s gift.

What you discover is that Joshua Creek is not just a family business. The Kerchevilles feel blessed to share their labor of love with other hunters. Joe, Ann and their son Joseph live and breathe Texas hospitality on a grand scale. No detail is too small, no request is too large, in the pursuit of 100 percent client satisfaction.

“I think the level of repeat business speaks to that, because of our attention to detail and commitment to excellence,” said Ann. “We receive cards, letters and emails telling us what a wonderful time our guests have here and we share those with our employees. And I tell our employees that our guests don’t owe us this.”

The attention to detail is really quite impressive. I stayed in the Covey Haus, and looking up at the vaulted ceiling I noticed that the rail on the track lights and the registers for the air conditioning had been painted a matching wood finish. Dinner arrives at the table as though it has been styled for a photo shoot. You’d return from dinner and a blaze would be waiting for you in the fire pit outside the Covey Haus – ready for your cigar and single malt from the built-in bar where the ice cabinet was always full.

Georgia Pellegrini and I had arrived at Joshua Creek Ranch on assignment to check out the synthesis of food, hunting and lodging as executed at the highest level of achievement in our industry: the designation as a Beretta Trident Lodge.

What we didn’t expect, though, was the backstory of the Kercheville family – how Joe and Ann carved Joshua Creek Ranch from raw, Texas Hill Country acreage dotted with long-standing buildings.

When you meet Joe and Ann, they seem like the most unlikely couple of entrepreneurs to roll up their sleeves and tackle a project like Joshua Creek Ranch. Joe has a fondness for expensive British automobiles and Italian shotguns. Ann is the picture of grace and elegance with long willowy dresses, tailored jackets and striking cowboy boots.

But once you understand the Kerchevilles, you can appreciate their vision – especially from the two hilltop cottages at Joshua Creek Ranch. Georgia stayed in the Porch Haus. While the German spelling of the domiciles honors the region’s pioneers, the interiors are pure Texas opulence as expressed in wood, stone, leather and requisite hunting trophies. Start your morning in either residence and you’re greeted by a

OPPOSITE: The dogs at Joshua Creek worked as hard as the guides to provide a bountiful pheasant hunting experience. ABOVE: One of the spectacular Texas Hill Country vistas at Joshua Creek Ranch.

sprawling view. Turn on the music, brew a pot of coffee and you whet your appetite watching game birds streak across the river valley below from the wide back porches. And you never give a thought to how the place had been nurtured and loved like a master tending a bonsai tree.

You could argue that the vision for Joshua Creek actually germinated in Scotland.

“The inspiration for us was the driven pheasant shooting in Scotland, but the fact is in Southwestern Texas people want quail hunting and we saw immediately that we could offer it all,” explained Ann. Joe and Ann had purchased the original 360 acre parcel in 1986. But after bird-hunting expeditions to Scotland in 1988 and 1989, Joe realized that Texas could provide American sportsmen with comparable shooting on this side of the Atlantic. And today, you would be hard-pressed to disagree with him following a weekend of walk-up shooting at Joshua Creek Ranch.

The original 360-acre parcel was intended for Longhorn cattle. Joe and Ann brought in a bulldozer crew to fell the rampant cedar trees. As the land became exposed to the sun and the vistas gradually unfolded, Joe and Ann realized that the property was adorned with stunning live oaks, grasses, wood pastures bluffs and ridges.

Over the ensuing years they planted grasses for bird-hunting habitat and acquired adjacent property to round out the current 1,200-acre ranch. Joe consulted with biologists to discover what would be best for the birds – because it gets hot and dry during the summer. Switchgrass, kleingrass, bluestem grass, Wilman lovegrass –grasses that proved hearty and drought tolerant to provide enduring cover for the birds.

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By 1990, Joe and Ann decided to open the property to hunting – fulfilling their inspiration from bird shooting in Scotland.

While you may not confuse Texas Hill Country with Scotland, Joshua Creek Ranch compresses myriad landscapes into different hunting experiences.

The condensed mix of vegetation, topography, rivers and streams actually contribute to the perception that Joshua Creek Ranch is far larger than it measures. For hunters, the payoff is a spread that’s convenient for quail, pheasant, chukar, and Hungarian Partridge in both traditional walkup, Continental Shoots, and driven shoots where the birds appear from the bluffs and ridges. The property is also home to whitetail deer and the big-rack Axis, as well as Rio Grande turkey.

“None of the hunting areas are more than 10 minutes from the lodge, but when you get there you feel far away from the lodge,” explained Joseph, the eldest son who is preparing to assume day-to-day management of Joshua Creek Ranch. “You can travel from one side of the ranch to the other. It doesn’t feel like 1,200 acres, it feels like 10,000 acres.

You can take a short 15 minute drive and feel like you’ve covered a lot of acreage.”

“We’ve got incredible diversity in the habitat,” Ann added. “You go to some other places and hunt 5,000 acres and it’s all the same kind of terrain – brush country, tundra, or whatever.”

That horizon-to-horizon sensation still enthralls Joseph, even though he first set foot on the property as a tender one year old. After her successful career in corporate finance, Ann found herself as the mother of both Joseph and his younger brother, Joshua, standing at the crossroads of a new, personal challenge. Bottom line? If you’re raising two young boys why not also raise a ranch?

“The full-time commitment, the day-to-day operating responsibilities of Joshua Creek Ranch, have been mine from the beginning,” Ann said.

“Joe has been my mentor, counselor, banker…he’s really the quality control barometer. As far as the cover, the dogs, the birds, the quality of our food service, hunting guides, he’s watching all that very carefully and constantly advising us.”

Her first undertaking was the flagship Cypress Lodge. It originally stood as an old ranch house, built in 1950 from the native limestone rock that was quarried on the ranch. Ann started renovating it in 1986 and today it serves as the main dining room and dramatic great room, along with two large guests rooms, with the pro shop and office just across the patio in what was once a guests house. The outdoor patio and barbeque served us well on the glorious days we ate lunch outside.

She then embarked on an architectural makeover of the existing buildings. A stunning example of a period stable was converted into guest rooms now called the Long Haus.

In a series of five-year plans, building projects continued through 2007 with the construction of Covey Haus where I stayed. Covey Haus, along with the Porch Haus and other lodgings on the property, initially housed the family as they spent an increasing amount of time there developing the ranch. Finally, the Kercheville’s build their own permanent residence on the ranch in 2008.

“The culture of Joshua Creek, of our sons, it all grew up here,” Ann said. “They learned early on that we are a service company. The TV had to be tuned to what the guests enjoyed, not what two little boys would enjoy.

They grew up with a mentality of guests first.”

In 2007, after Joseph graduated with a degree in finance from the McCombs School of Business at the University of Texas at Austin, he tried to resist the siren call of Joshua Creek Ranch. He started working in his father’s investment business, Kercheville & Company in San Antonio.

“I worked there for about a year, and I realized my heart wasn’t in it,” Joseph said. “And so I switched career paths to operating Joshua Creek Ranch.”

Joseph started full time at Joshua Creek Ranch in 2009 with an eye toward assuming full management. He’s totally immersed in the operations, hunts and marketing of the business.

“I’m excited for the future for Joshua Creek,” he said, and about the Beretta Trident affiliation. I’m excited where I can take this.”

A strong indication of the Kercheville family commitment to the future of Joshua Creek Ranch is the fact that in 2003 they set into motion a plan to systematically put conservation easements on the property, preventing its development in perpetuity. “We feel really good about the idea that this ranch will always look like it does today,” said Joe, “especially with all the development we see going on around us in this beautiful Texas Hill Country.”

For Georgia and me, Joseph put together an itinerary of walk-up hunting, deer hunting and sporting clays. Ann, meanwhile, organized a video with Georgia to promote a new Joshua Creek cook book.

Georgia took advantage of the rental guns, opting for a 28-gauge Beretta. Like the other Beretta Trident venues, the safes are stocked with Beretta shotguns in 12, 20 and 28 gauge just in case it’s not convenient for you to bring your own. I had packed my 12-gauge Beretta Silverhawk

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LEFT: Georgia Pellegrini with Irwin Greenstein hunting birds at Joshua Creek Ranch. ABOVE: The author’s Beretta Silverhawk, manufactured in 1960, with a pair of the many Ringnecks it brought down at Joshua Creek Ranch.

manufactured in 1960. The shotgun is in mint condition, an absolute gem, and extremely accurate. I always relish the idea of walk-up shooting with it.

Georgia and I started with a morning shoot over English setters. Birds are introduced into the habitat continuously during the hunting season, and as you can imagine those that elude the hunters begin to revert. They gain their orientation and pick up speed on the ground.

The birds flushed early and fast, providing long quartering shots over tall grasses. The dogs pointed and we crept up on the quarry, and then those spunky little English cockers would flush the birds from the cover – low, quick and evasive.

Joshua Creek Ranch takes tremendous pride in their field dogs. All of them – retrievers, flushers and pointers – are professionally trained and handled by veterans of upland bird hunts. Hunters are also encouraged to use their own dogs. Joshua Creek Ranch can board them and offers an innovative training program that ultimately includes the possibility of their guides working your dogs in the Joshua Creek Ranch hunting program.

The dogs worked hard and skillfully for us, to the extent that we worked up a powerful appetite come lunch time. We gathered on the patio for gourmet burgers under a sun that felt much warmer than reported on the thermometer.

Our afternoon hunt turned to flushing dogs in rows of cut corn. With

Georgia on one side, and me on the other, few birds managed to escape.

Here, the shots were easier: higher and closer. Afterwards, Georgia hunted Axis deer with Joseph. She saw a few bucks, but no shots became available. I opted to head back to the lodge for a frosty Corona, and found myself laughing it up with several of the guides as we leaned against their big Texas pick-up trucks parked under a few shade trees.

Afterwards, we enjoyed cocktails and a hearty dinner in the Cypress Lodge.

The following morning, Georgia went to film the cooking video while I shot a round of sporting clays with Joseph. Joshua Creek Ranch designed the sporting clays course to simulate bird hunting rather than throw presentations that you would rarely see in the wild. That prevailing philosophy is embodied in the stations made of found wood from the surrounding trees.

The 12 stations are fully automated. The guests receive an access card to operate the traps. Many high targets were thrown: a mix of quartering and crossing outgoers and incomers. Several stations that offered spectacular views threw targets into valleys and gullies. The menu called for all reports, but it would be easy to ratchet up the difficulty by throwing true pairs, of which nearly every station could be broken by an aboveaverage shooter. Ideally, you’d want to go for a round of sporting clays before bird hunting, but the course was so scenic it would even make for a picturesque after-dinner stroll.

And the Kercheville family would have it no other way.

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ince 1997, Bacchus Caves founder, David Provost and his team of experienced underground professionals, have continuously developed the one of a kind luxurious experience of cave building and design. Bacchus Caves excavates and designs unique caves for private and commercial clients with a multitude of uses. Bacchus Caves has established a premium reputation for creating a wide range of singular caves designed to fit your every desire.

Bacchus Caves prides itself on creating a streamline process from site selection, engineering, permitting, excavation, all the way to the final build and design. David Provost, founder, and his team of experienced underground professionals have perfected Cave Customization for any project of your dreams.

Whether you are a home owner or a business owner, the Bacchus Caves professional team can provide you everything you need from beginning to end to complete the ultimate project. Regardless if you are looking to build a creative underground getaway, media room, wine storage, or multipurpose room-to a business-say a Hotel looking to add a luxurious spa area unlike anything else. Anything is possible underground!

A veteran of the mining industry for two decades, David Provost is known for his expertise, energy, straightshooting attitude and uncompromising commitment to doing a job well. Working with him is a team that has earned a reputation for its innovative excavation methods, exceptional workmanship and on site professionalism.

Some of Bacchus Caves’ previously completed projects include The Meritage Resort - The Estate Cave and Spa Terra, a 22,000-square-foot underground spa, tasting room, and massive reception area; Baldacci Family Vineyards, a 6,500-square-foot barrel storage cave; and many private home projects.

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Bacchus Caves brings a one-of-a-kind underground luxury design to build experience to commercial and residential builders and owners throughout the United States, including the always innovative Texas market.

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Anything is possible underground. Bacchus Caves is presently looking at carving caverns throughout the entire United States—from sunny California to the East Coast, including Hill Country Texas in between. Caves are all individually customized and vary in function including, but not limited to: music production studio, art gallery, luxury spa retreat, dramatic dining chamber, wine storage site, complete winery, shooting range, bowling alley…..use your imagination and Bacchus will put it underground.

For more information, please reach out to David Provost at David@BacchusCaves.com or visit them online at BacchusCaves.com.

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Stars are Big and Bright in the Country

WRITTEN BY ROBERT FEARS

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n enjoyment of living in the country is abundant clear night sky, usually more than seen in urban settings. As most of us look at the multitude of bright stars twinkling in a black sky, we suddenly want to know more about them. We might have forgotten the answers to simple questions like: What are stars? Why are some brighter than others?

To refresh our memories, a star is a luminous sphere of plasma held together by its own gravity. The nearest star to Earth is the Sun. Other stars are visible from Earth during the night, appearing as a multitude of fixed luminous points in the sky due to their immense distance from Earth.

Alan MacRobert, Senior Editor of Sky and Telescope asks, “Did you know you can see a galaxy 2½ million light years away with your unaided eyes and craters on the moon with binoculars? Countless wonders await you on a clear night. The first step is simply to look up and ask, ‘What’s that?’ Begin gazing at the stars from your backyard, and you’ll be taking the first step toward a lifetime of cosmic exploration.”

How and where to look?

For the casual observer, locating stars, planets, and other astronomical objects in the night sky is most easily accomplished with the help of a star map, according to The University of Texas McDonald Observatory. “Many good books

are available containing extensive maps of star positions for the entire sky, while magazines such as StarDate, Astromomy, and Sky & Telescope provide monthly maps that show locations of the planets.

To get started in learning about the starry sky obtain an evening sky map, locate a compass to help align your sight in the right direction and practice identifying planets, individual stars and constellations. For the first few star gazing sessions, it might be beneficial to ask another amateur astronomer to join you.

“Ransack your public library for astronomy basics,” recommends MacRobert. “Astronomy is a learning hobby. Its joys come from intellectual discovery and knowledge of the cryptic night sky. But you have to make these discoveries, and gain this information by yourself. In other words, you need to become self-taught.

“The public library is the beginner’s most important astronomical tool. Comb the astronomy shelf for books about the basic knowledge you need to possess, and guidebooks that show what you can see in the wide universe. Read about those stars and constellations you’re finding with the naked eye, and about how stars change through the night and seasons. If the library doesn’t have enough material, cruise the bookstores.”

“Of course the web is a tremendous resource, although it is a hodgepodge,” MacRobert adds. “There are excellent

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beginner’s sites; but what you need is a coherent, well-organized framework in which to put your increased knowledge as you grow in your new hobby.”

“Binoculars make an ideal first telescope—for several reasons,” suggests MacRobert. “They have a wide field of vision, making it easy to find your way around; whereas, a higher-power telescope magnifies a tiny, hard-to-locate bit of sky. Binoculars show a view that’s right-side up and straight in front of you, making it easier to see where you are pointing.

“For astronomy, the larger the front lenses, the better. High optical quality is also important, more so than for binoculars that are used on daytime scenes. Modern image-stabilized binoculars are a tremendous boon for astronomy, although they are expensive. Any binoculars lying in the back of your closet are enough to launch an amateur astronomy career.”

What you can see?

“What you see in the night sky depends on your location, the season, and the time,” say McDonald Observatory Outreach and Education staff. “Planets orbit the Sun, so they change position when compared to the stars. The planet Venus, sometimes called the evening star or morning star, is the second brightest object in the night sky – only the Moon is brighter.

Jupiter, Mars, and Saturn are sometimes referred to as the morning or evening star, but they often appear later in the night than Venus. Planets reflect a steady light, unlike the twinkling stars, which are much farther from Earth.

“When either the morning or evening star appears close to the Sun as viewed from Earth, sunset or sunrise watchers are treated to star-like brilliance of one of our planetary neighbors. The morning star may be brighter than any of the true stars in the sky at one time of the year and then later, as its orbit carries it behind and to the other side of the sun, it appears as an evening star.”

“Binoculars will reveal dozens of star clusters, galaxies, and nebula,” continues MacRobert. “Binoculars will show the everchanging positions of Jupiter’s moons and the crescent phases of Venus. They can aid in the identification of dozens of craters, plains and mountains on the Moon. You can split scores of interesting double stars and follow the fading and brightening of

numerous variable stars.”

A few terms in the above paragraph may need to be defined for those of us who are unschooled in astronomy. Nebula is a cloud of gas and dust in outer space, visible in the night sky either as an indistinct bright patch or as a dark silhouette against other luminous matter. A double star is a pair of stars that appear close to each other in the sky as seen from Earth; whereas, variable stars change brightness by as much as twenty magnitudes over periods of a fraction of a second to years, depending on the type of variable star.

“The starry girth of the Milky Way is one of the most spectacular and awe-inspiring sights in the night sky,” say McDonald Observatory educators. “The best time for viewing the Milky Way is mid-to-late summer and again in midwinter, when the diffused glow of hundreds of star clouds arch almost directly overhead in the early evening hours. Dark locations—as usual— are preferable, but the bright swath of the Milky Way is visible even from urban areas.

“Under dark skies, you may be able to see one or several of the hundreds of artificial satellites orbiting Earth almost any night of the year. Look for a faint star-like object moving steadily across the sky. Because light from a satellite is entirely reflected from the sun, they will frequently blink in and out as they rotate and as different areas of their surface face the sun. As they pass into the darkness of the Earth’s shadow, they appear to vanish altogether.

Spotting geostationary satellites, whose positions remain fixed above Earth, is a bit trickier and requires exact location data.”

Look for the International Space Station. It is also visible from Earth.

Star gazing is a nice after-dinner event that is relaxing and a great way to spend the evening with family and friends. Parties focused on star gazing can be a lot of fun, especially when guests are given a list of heavenly bodies to identify and a prize is awarded to the person that identifies the most. Some land owners make their property available to the public for star gazing and charge a fee which serves as an additional revenue stream.

Beautiful night skies is definitely one of the pleasures of living in the country.

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INDIAN HOT SPRINGS RANCH 6,400± ACRES | HUDSPETH COUNTY

Indian Hot Springs Ranch is home to a historical monument and is listed on the National Register of Historic Places due to an encounter between Native Americans and African-American Buffalo Soldiers on the property.

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n Texas, many secret places long thought forgotten to

warm springs, provided both access and enjoyment of

the pages of history lie open and waiting for the curious,

the therapeutic waters. Later, the Indians made use of

the ambitious and, often times, the adventurous.

the natural stone “bathtubs” for bathing in the waters

These unique venues not only invite visitors with their

and considered them to be enchanted liquids capable of

breathtaking landscapes and wealth of amenities, but

miraculous healing. For centuries, Indian warriors came

also with elements significantly less tangible. Beyond

to recover from their battles and rest up from their forays

the modern luxuries, the native Indian folktales weave a

across both sides of the border. Centuries later, many

greater magic, a sense that the spirit of the land—and

visitors over the years have written testaments to the to the

the window to history itself—still survives. Stories passed

hot springs’ soothing, calming and even healing effects

down through generations of historic battles and magic

while they were guests

healing waters stir the imagination, invoke a sense of

at the ranch.

adventure and welcome all who find their way to Indian Hot Springs Ranch.

Ranging between 117°F and 81°F, the eight springs that give Indian Hot Springs Ranch include: Soda Spring, a

Sited between Fort Davis and El Paso, just a short distance

cold spring, lies on the northernmost end of the ranch;

from the world-famous waters of the fabulous Rio Grande,

Beauty or Horse Trough Spring lies north of the hotel

Indian Hot Springs Ranch is a ranch without equal. Nestled

building near the entrance; Chief Spring, the largest

in a small valley formed by the Rio Grande’s cut through

spring, is pumped into the bathhouse; Squaw Spring was

the Quitman Mountains in Hudspeth County, the ranch is

used by Indian women; Dynamite Spring was dynamited

rich in history, easily accessible and almost completely

in the 1970s in an attempt to increase the flow; Stump

surrounded by the majestic mountain range. This prime

Spring is used in the wading pools; Mexican Spring was

mountainside locale offers a combination of serene and

used for many years by people crossing the nearby Rio

restful beauty in an invigorating, smog-free valley of the

Grande; and Masons or Fishing Hole Spring is the farthest

Rio Grande, remote from the hustle and bustle of big-city

east of the springs. In addition to the springs, two wells

pollution—a perfect place to call home.

supply fresh water to the ranch along with Rio Grande

From behind the Indian Hot Springs Hotel, the mountains of

water rights for two large duck ponds.

Mexico rise from the horizon in a stunning natural backdrop

Though no minerals are available, the ranch offers a

mirrored in the natural native elements showcased through

wealth of native vegetation and wildlife. The diverse foliage

the handcrafted architecture. Originally constructed

includes plenty of salt cedar, mesquite and cacti, along

in the 1920s and partially restored in recent years, the

with many varieties of grasses and shrubs that provide

masonry hotel is within a stone’s throw of the Rio Grande

wonderful cover for the plentiful game that call Indian

and once connected to the small quaint Mexican village of

Spring Ranch home. Aoudad, javelina, whitetail deer, mule

Ojo Caliente on the Mexican side of the river via swinging

deer, bobwhite quail and dove roam the ranch, and a wide

bridge. Electricity is provided by Rio Grande Electric Coop

variety of migratory birds use the ponds as they traverse

and Dell Telephone currently serves the ranch with fiber

the West Texas flyway. This well-maintained ranch has

optic cable buried and ready to be powered. In addition to

been slightly hunted and has an excellent feeding program

the two homes, the ranch also affords two adjacent duplex

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apartments and a privates cantina (saloon) for guests to enjoy and relax amidst the beauty of the Rio Grande Valley.

Even with the majestic beauty of the distant mountains, the plethora of native wildlife and the prime Rio Grande

Featuring 6,400 breathtaking acres and an elevation of

locale, the area of Indian Hot Springs Ranch has long been

over 3,000 feet, the Indian Hot Springs Ranch is more

coveted not just for its physical amenities, but the spirit of

than just a place to see, but a place to experience. At the

its springs. From generals who led Buffalo Soldiers across

hotel spa, one will find picturesque landscapes, intriguing

the valley to modern doctors of El Paso interested in their

historical sites and naturally heated waters that flow

healing properties, the mystery of the ranch’s waters has

throughout the property. When the first white explorers

inspired many to invest in this area and discover the truth

came to this part of the valley of the Rio Grande, they

behind the legend. This unique opportunity allows you to

found stone troughs that were hand-dug by prehistoric

discover the beauty— and perhaps the mystery—of Indian

people. These troughs, strategically located around the

Hot Springs Ranch.

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DETAILS PROPERTY INDIAN HOT SPRINGS RANCH // 6,400± Acres Hudspeth County // Property ID: 2327690 OFFERED AT $5,750,000 CONTACT HOOD REAL ESTATE INC Howard W. Hood, Broker Howard@HoodRealEstateInc.com (830) 739-3815 P. O. Box 295093 // Kerrville, Texas 78029 www.HoodRealEstateInc.com view all properties: LandsofTexas.com/member/39718

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SUPER M RANCH 1,791± ACRES | KERR COUNTY

The Super M Ranch landscape combines spectacular hills with open pastureland in close proximity to one of Texas’ most highly prized towns.

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ocated 10 miles southwest of Kerrville on 1,791 acres, the Super M Ranch is the largest live-water ranch for sale in Kerr County. The landscape combines spectacular hills with open pastureland in close proximity to one of Texas’ most highly prized towns. Multiple springs bubble from the ground eventually feeding Turtle Creek, which has a natural waterfall. The springs also fill several impoundments, the largest of which is a stocked

lake of about five acres. Two working windmills can be used to provide additional water for wildlife.

The high-fenced ranch is home to white-tailed deer turkeys, elk, fallow deer, axis deer, sika deer, blackbuck antelope, and aoudad sheep. The wildlife infrastructure includes eight deer blinds, eight corn feeders, six protein feeders and a processing shed with a walk-in cooler and freezer. There are also two equipment barns (40’x130’ and 25’x100’), a horse barn and livestock pens.

Good ranch roads provide easy access. The main house features three bedrooms and threeand-a-half baths with extensive cherrywood decking. The grounds include a state-of-the-art outdoor kitchen, an outdoor fireplace, a large fire pit, and a spring-fed swimming pool and waterfall as well as a small lake visible from the master bedroom. Also, there is a 3,000± squarefoot, three-bedroom, two-bath guest house with a large dining room and great room. Water wells with submersible pumps supply the main and guest houses. Call Howard W. Hood to experience the Super M for yourself.

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DETAILS PROPERTY SUPER M RANCH // 1,791± Acres Kerr County // Property ID: 2523094 OFFERED AT $19,950,000 CONTACT HOOD REAL ESTATE INC Howard W. Hood, Broker Howard@HoodRealEstateInc.com (830) 739-3815 P. O. Box 295093 // Kerrville, Texas 78029 HoodRealEstateInc.com view all properties: LandsofTexas.com/member/39718

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EL PAPALOTE RANCH 2,002± ACRES | LA SALLE COUNTY

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Los Olmos Creek is a large wet weather creek that enters the property from the Callaghan Ranch on the west and traverses the Creek Pasture. The ranch also has two stock tanks as well as four supplemental water troughs designed to provide water for wildlife.

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very inch of El Papalote Ranch’s 2,002± acres

Los Olmos Creek a large wet weather creek traverses

in La Salle County, approximately 16 miles east

the Creek Pasture. The ranch also has two stock

of Encinal, is authentic South Texas. Situated in

tanks as well as four supplemental wildlife waterers.

the heart of Texas’ famed Golden Triangle, El Papalote is the perfect location to enjoy ranching

with a recreational focus.

The main house, a sprawling Spanish-style hacienda, is sited about one mile off of Coquat County Road. The five-bedroom/four-bath hacienda

This ranch originally served as the Caiman Ranch’s

features a traditional courtyard and expansive

headquarters.

porches. The nearby guest house has four bedrooms, two baths as well as a kitchen, living

The ranch is bordered by a low-fence on two sides. The

room and laundry room.

diverse mix of native protein-rich brush and forbs combined with deliberate, conscientious management has yielded

Other ranch improvements include: a large multi-

good populations of white-tailed deer and bobwhite and

purpose metal building; feed storage room with an

blue quail. Dove, turkey, bobcats, coyotes, javelinas, feral

elevated loading dock; a tool shed and work room; a

hogs and other species abound.

game processing area; and a large walk-in cooler.

The deer herd has been managed under TPWD’s

To experience the authenticity of El Papalote for

Managed Lands Deer Permit Level 3 for approximately 20

yourself, contact Howard W. Hood at (830) 739-

years. All feeders (corn and protein) and blinds convey.

3815. The ranch is available for $2,395 per acre.

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DETAILS PROPERTY EL PAPALOTE // 2,002± Acres La Salle County // Property ID: 2721874 OFFERED AT $4,784,780 CONTACT HOOD REAL ESTATE INC Howard W. Hood, Broker Howard@HoodRealEstateInc.com (830) 739-3815 P. O. Box 295093 // Kerrville, Texas 78029 HoodRealEstateInc.com view all properties: LandsofTexas.com/member/39718

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he 3,080.10± acre Morriss Ranch, located 45 minutes from Kerrville on The Divide near Garven’s Store, is a living legacy to pioneering stewardship. After 106 years of family ownership, a portion of this Hill Country ranching stronghold is for sale for the first time. The ranch, which features rolling pastures resplendent with native grass and fields suitable for culti-

vation, is a testimony to the Morriss family’s ongoing care. Numerous windmills and an extensive water trough system meet the needs of livestock and wildlife. This land sustained herds of cattle, sheep, and goats for generations, and responsible management has conserved a sprawling natural habitat—home to both native white-tailed deer and turkeys as well as trophy axis deer and black buck antelope. The ranch infrastructure includes barns and working pens. A small portion of the ranch is high-fenced, but the majority is low-fenced. Almost two miles of private, paved road leads you from Highway 41 to the handsome ranch headquarters nestled in the ranch’s heart. The compound features two main ranch houses, a wrangler’s house, barns, gated pens and equipment sheds. Just over an hour and a half from the San Antonio International Airport, Morriss Ranch offers rare Hill Country beauty, large-scale landscapes with convenient interstate access to Kerrville and San Antonio. Call Howard W. Hood at (830) 739-3815 to discover the land that inspired A.G. Morriss 106 years ago. The Morriss Ranch can be yours for $1,950 per acre. Property ID: 2526656

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DOUBLE J RANCH 754± ACRES | REAL COUNTY

The incredible views remind you of being in Colorado, where you can see for miles.

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he Double J Ranch consists of 754Âą acres, all under high fence, which fronts on Highway 337 between Leakey and Vanderpool, very close to Lost Maples State Park. This ranch can truly be your home on the range with the scenic terrain from mountains to canyons and the crystal-clear water.

The incredible views remind you of being in Colorado, where you can see

for miles. Double J Ranch has numerous springs and one nice lake with several more lake sites. Improvements are nestled in the canyon with an ultimate sense of privacy.

Improvements include two lodges, one with three bedrooms and two baths, and the other with four bedrooms and two baths. Enjoy the stunning new 52.67- by 31.67-foot swimming pool and hot tub, fireplace and 19.42- by 19-foot outdoor kitchen with grills and sink. Also included is a large barn with a walk-in cooler. Amazing wildlife cover this ranch with whitetail deer, turkeys and exotics, including axis, aoudad, fallow and blackbuck. This home on the range has huge possibilities for a corporate retreat, family getaway or hunting ranch. Call today for a showing.

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DETAILS PROPERTY DOUBLE J RANCH // 754± Acres Real County // Property ID: 914150 OFFERED AT $5,000,000 CONTACT HOOD REAL ESTATE INC Howard W. Hood, Broker Howard@HoodRealEstateInc.com (830) 739-3815 P. O. Box 295093 // Kerrville, Texas 78029 HoodRealEstateInc.com view all properties: LandsofTexas.com/member/39718

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MAYO RANCH 59± ACRES | KERR COUNTY

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he Mayo Ranch is nestled into the heart of the Texas Hill Country. Within its high-fenced borders, you can experience the full spectrum of Hill Country beauty: diverse native hardwoods, gently rolling hills, oak pastures with abundant grass, a variety of native wildlife, two spring-fed creeks and rich bottomland. Only minutes from Kerrville’s amenities, this property, outfitted with its own private security gate, fronts on Highway 16. Enjoy a peaceful picnic on the banks of the large pond

located in the pasture area or in the shaded tranquility of 1,750± feet of the beautiful spring-fed Lower Turtle Creek. Improvements include a two-bedroom, two-bath, two-story wood cabin, remodeled in 2002 and featuring antique pine floors and a rock fireplace. A large 16x40 barn, gazebo, and bunkhouse with covered porches overlooking the two creeks complete the hospitality infrastructure. Here you will experience the Hill Country’s most desirable landscape features without ever leaving your ranch.

Call Howard W. Hood for a private showing.

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DETAILS PROPERTY MAYO RANCH // 69± Acres Kerr County // Property ID: 1187419 OFFERED AT $2,200,000 CONTACT HOOD REAL ESTATE INC Howard W. Hood, Broker Howard@HoodRealEstateInc.com (830) 739-3815 P. O. Box 295093 // Kerrville, Texas 78029 HoodRealEstateInc.com view all properties: LandsofTexas.com/member/39718

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Morris Killough/Broker | PO Box 827, Utopia, Texas 78884

WE SPECIALIZE IN PREMIUM LIVE WATER R ANCHES RECRE ATIONAL R ANCHES C AT TLE R ANCHES HUNTING R ANCHES RETIREMENT PROPERTIES INCOME PRODUCING PROPERTIES INVES TMENT R ANCHES MINER AL PROPERTIES

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• Over 50 closed transactions!

• Over $1,000,000 in sales per week!

• 15 contracts in title in one month!

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SADDLE MOUNTAIN RANCH 1,6 8 8 ± AC R ES | U VA L D E C O U N T Y

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DETAILS PROPERTY SADDLE MOUNTAIN RANCH // 1,688± Acres Uvalde County // Property ID: 2598336 CONTACT TEXAS LAND & RANCH CO. Morris Killough / Broker MBKillough@SWTexas.net (210) 415–9850 // (830) 966–2334 fax PO Box 827, Utopia, Texas 78884 TexasLandandRanch.net view all properties: LandsofTexas.com/member/14814

canyons loaded with wildlife, a dozen valleys and canyons covered

7,200-square-foot main home, a 3,200-foot airstrip, 2,000-square-

with huge hardwoods and encircled by awesome limestone bluffs and

foot lodge, game cleaning and processing building, foreman’s house,

outcroppings. Magnificent peaks offer breathtaking views for miles and

workshop, three barns, three water wells, three large feed silos,

hundreds of acres of gentle bottom land with an abundance of native

perimeter game-fencing and cross game-fencing, 10-plus acres of

cover for the many elk, axis, fallow, black buck, aoudad, red stag, sika

state approved whitetail breeder pens and multiple feed and water

and improved native whitetail that roam the ranch. The ranch has not

stations scattered throughout the ranch. All the facilities were well

been hunted in years and the owner will provide an inventory list of the

planned and built for a true working ranch. No other ranch in the area

exotics on the property.

comes close to this work of nature and man, don’t miss the chance to own a truly spectacular ranch in a great location. Call Morris Killough

Improvements on the ranch include paved access, a fabulous

(210) 415–9850.

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DUNNERS MOUNTAIN RANCH 3 ,1 6 0 ± A C R E S | K E N D A L L C O U N T Y

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ne of the largest remaining contiguous tracts of land in rapidlygrowing Kendall County, this legacy ranch has been in the same family for generations, and is rugged, wild, pristine and oozing with character and history. Dunners Mountain looms over the West Sister Creek valley like a sentinel, offering dramatic vistas and

scenery of the highest order. Fertile, level fields of grass flanked by heritage oaks, pecans and elms dominate the lush bottoms, while soaring ridges seem to touch the sky above, cloaking huge lake sites in untouched drainages below.

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DETAILS PROPERTY DUNNERS MOUNTAIN RANCH 3,160± Acres Kendall County Property ID: 2705323 OFFERED AT $17,222,000 or $5,450 per acre CONTACT LANDTX David E. Culver / Broker dec@landtx.com (210) 422–4676 | (325) 294–4616 PO Box 860 | 410-A El Paso Street Mason, Texas 76856 www.landtx.com view all properties: LandsofTexas.com/member/3373

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YOLO RANCH 3,000± ACRES | MEDINA COUNTY

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he Yolo Ranch is an extraordinary ranch with expertly managed habitat for wild quail production, a headquarters compound that is unmatched, a 20-plus acre lake, perimeter high-fencing and many other amenities. It is located in a honey hole of red sands in Southern Medina County allowing for extraordinary populations of quail and other wildlife. With the improvements and lake added in, this ranch is a year-round recreational

paradise or permanent home, given its accessibility to Hondo and San Antonio. The asking price includes Seller’s owned minerals!

The headquarters compound is anchored by the architecturally designed 10,745-square-foot main home, that includes the multi-bedroom owner residence and four identical guest quarters around a landscaped courtyard. Nearby, on the other side of the pool and pool house, is a second home that is a four-bedroom, 4,969-square-foot home.

In addition to the large lake there are numerous smaller lakes, tanks and waterholes throughout the ranch further helping the wildlife management program. There are 12 shallow water wells; two domestic exempt Edwards Aquifer wells, one of which is physically capable of pumping higher volumes with necessary permits, pumping rights and pump, plus three Yancey Water Supply meters.

The majority of the ranch has been expertly managed for quail but also has fantastic deer and turkey habitat. The ranch is traversed by Tehuacana Creek and several other drainages; these riparian zones provide excellent habitat for wildlife. The brush sculpting has been done with both the quail population and quail hunter in mind.

Pictures speak a thousand words, but yesterday, when out taking a few of the quail shots included here, I saw firsthand how incredible the Yolo is! Between the 15 some odd covey rises (without dogs) in a couple hours, dove in the mesquites, waterfowl on the lake, deer in the brush, incredible habitat and one of the most inviting headquarters compounds I have had the pleasure to visit, the Yolo is something else!

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DETAILS PROPERTY YOLO RANCH // 3,000± Acres // Medina County // Property ID: 2259513

OFFERED AT $19,750,000

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The 950Âą acre Brown Ranch, ideally located between Fredericksburg and Kerrville in Gillespie County, is the pinnacle of Hill Country living. The land, with its plentiful live water, rolling terrain, native game and majestic live oaks, provides the perfect backdrop for memory-making getaways with family, friends and business associates.

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he top-of-the-line improvements, including six homes, were designed to enhance the experience. Secure, electric entrances from Highway 783 and Fielder Road provide easy access to the high-fenced ranch, which features paved roads throughout. The extensive public road frontage enhances the property’s investment value even more by providing an opportunity for sub-division in the future. The land, which includes

both native range and improved coastal Bermuda patches for hay production, has been managed to support a genetically improved white-tailed herd as well top-notch registered Charolais cattle. The deer herd, which has produced bucks measuring 160-170, has benefited from a year-round feeding program. Superlative habitat management has ensured the presence of a host of other native Hill Country species ranging from turkey and bobcat to the occasional mountain lion. Crystalline water is plentiful in the Kline Branch and Stevens creeks, which converge near the main house, creating a large dammed lake. (Premier dam builder Edmond Jenschke has constructed several dams on the property.) The co-joined creeks leave the lake flowing as one large stream, which is fed by a strong, year-round spring. The creeks flow inside the ranch for miles providing an exceptional amount of frontage. In addition, there are three Trinity Aquifer water wells and five Edwards Aquifer water wells situated throughout the ranch. No expense has been spared to create and maintain this ultimate Hill Country destination.

BROWN RANCH 950± ACRES | GILLESPIE COUNTY

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Throughout the 8,000± square-foot main residence, unique touches abound, including: the great room’s soaring 30-foot ceiling, a huge deck overlooking the lake, custom-made chandeliers, ironwork and fireplaces, and the “Wild West” grandchildren’s suite. The immaculately landscaped headquarters compound also includes a nearby guest house and a stateof-the-art equestrian barn complete with turnout paddocks and horse-safe fencing. Family and friends can also be housed at the Ranch House, a brand new 6,000-foot ranch-style house with all the latest amenities. Then, there is the pool house, located in a beautifully landscaped, park-like clearing that boasts sprinkler and lighting systems, and provides direct access to the uniquely built, natural, rock-bottom swimming pool. The Original Ranch Headquarters House and its accompanying barn have been refurbished to exacting standards of modern taste and luxury. To keep the fun going, the owners have repurposed an old rock home into an air-conditioned “party palace” showcasing a huge bar and entertaining area. If the celebration needs to move outside, the Lookout Pavilion, which provides a perfect view of the sun setting behind the hills is available. In addition, there are two homes suitable for a foreman and staff as well as an expansive new barn featuring an office, a bunk room, bath room and completely outfitted workout center as well as space for storing equipment. All ranch equipment will convey with the sale. The Brown Ranch offers the rare combination of proximity and privacy with all the amenities of a dream destination. It is a chance to live life at the pinnacle. To see the Brown Ranch for yourself, call James Ahern Jr. at (210) 827-0505.

DETAILS PROPERTY BROWN RANCH 950± Acres Gillespie County Property ID: 2722682 OFFERED AT $15,068,135 CONTACT AHERN RANCHES James L. Ahern Jr / Broker James@AhernRanches.com (210) 827-0505 PO Box 153, Alpline, Texas 79831 AhernRanches.com view all properties: LandsofTexas.com/member/40588

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HARVEST CREEK RANCH 801± ACRES | KENDALL COUNTY

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arvest Creek Ranch is a sprawling 801-acre property that boasts numerous features including gorgeous Guadalupe River frontage, an approximate

9,000-square-foot main residence, three smaller residences, barns, open fields, towering cypress trees, grand oak trees.

Located 12 miles north of Boerne, Texas, on Highway 474 in one of the finest and prettiest areas of the Texas Hill Country.

The 801 acres stretch from the highway to flowing waters of the Guadalupe River, arguably one of the prettiest rivers in the state. Down three-and-a-half miles of paved road the ranch has 1.4 miles of river frontage.

Owners can enjoy a private beach area shaded by huge cypress trees. The winding river is remarkable and views can be enjoyed from the banks or the bluffs above. For a rare opportunity to view this ranch contact Doug Evans. Video is available on our website.

DETAILS PROPERTY HARVEST CREEK RANCH 801± Acres // Kendall County // Property ID: 2487688 CONTACT FOR PRICE CONTACT EVANS & ASSOCIATES // Doug Evans / Broker Doug@TexasRanchLandForSale.com // (830) 895-0777 1209 Junction Highway // Kerrville, Texas 78028 // TexasRanchLandForSale.com view all properties: LandsofTexas.com/member/139

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habitat. The white-tailed deer herd has also been a big

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point of focus. The native herd has been heavily culled

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bottoms, and intermittent watering holes. The remainder of

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the property is covered with an excellent variety of brush

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species and a thick grass cover, making it prime habitat for

on the source and pictures of these deer can be provided.

all wildlife.

A Wildlife Management Plan has been put in effect making it MLD ready should an owner choose to enter

All-weather access and over 25 miles of interior roads make

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it easy to get to any part of the ranch. The entire perimeter is high-fenced, and the combination of four water wells (two

A thorough infrastructure and modest improvements put this

electric, two solar), over two miles of water lines, and several

ranch in a unique and sought after tier of properties. There

surface tanks yield nine permanent watering stations.

are sixe blinds and eight feeders that will convey, and a new

Selective clearing around the two larger tanks and in areas

cabin with a kitchen, living, and bunk room make it move-in

along the creek bottoms has left beautiful pasture with bull

ready from day one. The town of Uvalde with its 5,256-foot

mesquites and native grasses.

runway and full assortment of grocery, farm supply stores, and other shopping is only 10 minutes away.

There are large numbers of turkey which roost along the creek, and seasonal dove (both mourning and white-

There are no leases or mineral activity of any kind in the area.

winged) flock to the area given the ample water and

Some minerals are owned and may be conveyed with the sale.

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DETAILS PROPERTY MOOS RANCH // 2,268± Acres Uvalde County // Property ID: 2266587 CONTACT FOR PRICE CONTACT FOSTER FARM AND RANCH Chad Foster, Jr. / Broker ChadFosterJr@gmail.com // (830) 776-3605 400 East Nopal Street // Uvalde, Texas 78801 FosterFarmAndRanch.com view all properties: LandsofTexas.com/member/9982

CONTACT MARK HUBBARD RANCH PROPERTIES Jared Capt / Broker // (830) 275-7419 TexasRanches.org view all properties: LandsofTexas.com/member/18505

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If you’re looking for Hill Country splendor, magnificent wildlife, and good neighbors, Running M Ranch is the place you’ll want to call home.

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ree-roaming whitetails, axis, blackbuck, turkey and other game animals make themselves at home on the Running M Ranch located in the Western Hill Country, southeast of Sonora. Hunters on neighboring ranches have harvested several high-scoring axis deer in the past 18 months. Carved from the historic 43,000± acre Bond Ranch, this is a land of wide open spaces and natural surprises including a

private cave. Running M Ranch has a cavern that extends approximately a mile in length and is 256± feet deep, which provides extensive exploration opportunities for new or experienced spelunkers. A beautiful two± acre lake is a wildlife and waterfowl mecca. Several water wells, troughs, and nice-sized tanks are located throughout the ranch, providing plentiful water for livestock, exotics and wildlife. The flat to slightly rolling terrain includes mesquite deep bottomlands and productive soils that support a variety of native grasses and oak savannahs.

The well-constructed headquarters includes an impressive shop with a commercial kitchen, living and dining areas, a spacious guesthouse, modular home, a rock storage tank that doubles as a swimming pool, a fire pit area, and much more.

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DETAILS PROPERTY RUNNING M RANCH 2,617± Acres // Sutton County Property ID: 2434095 CONTACT FOR PRICE CONTACT TEXAS RANCHES FOR SALE Ken Hoerster, Broker info@TexasRanchesForSale.com (830) 249-9339 501 East San Antonio Avenue Boerne, Texas 78006 TexasRanchesForSale.com view all properties: LandsofTexas.com/member/1000

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Gwendolyn Lake is masterfully engineered and well-built to sustain itself, even through drought periods.

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wendolyn Lake Ranch is a spectacular one-of-a-kind Hill Country property that features Gwendolyn Lake, a 17-acre ski lake. This 528-acre ranch is perfectly located in the heart of the Texas Hill Country within minutes of the increasingly popular town of Wimberley with close proximity to great restaurants, shopping and live music venues. The ag. exempt ranch has frontage on three roads, and can be offered in two tracts; a 318-acre tract with

lake and 210-acre tract. Unlike most Texas ranches it offers year-round recreation and enjoyment from boating to excellent hunting and fishing. Magnificent building sites surround the lake with remarkable view of the Texas Hill Country. Blanketed in towering oaks with selected areas of brush and cedar removed, the rolling topography still leaves cover for abundant wildlife, including free-roaming exotics. The property has been managed to increase the size of its whitetail deer, and both corn and protein feeders are scattered throughout the property that have been feeding year-round. The property includes two water wells, as well as Cedar Fork Creek, which traverses through the property and is the main water source for the 17acre ski-able Gwendolyn Lake—masterfully engineered and well-built to sustain a ski-able lake through drought conditions. Gwendolyn Lake offers fantastic fishing and includes a boat dock with pier.

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DETAILS PROPERTY GWENDOLYN LAKE RANCH 528± Acres // Hays County Property ID: 2724541 CONTACT FOR PRICE CONTACT PHYLLIS BROWNING COMPANY George M. “Mitch” West, Broker Associate GMWest@PhyllisBrowning.com (210) 213-5402 Louie Swope, REALTOR® LSwope@PhyllisBrowning.com (512) 940-0543 6061 Broadway San Antonio, Texas 78209 PhyllisBrowningRanchandLand.com view all properties: LandsofTexas.com/member/22374

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he vegetation community on 3-Mile Ranch consists of a variety of South Texas mixed brush and forbs that provide a diversity of food for whitetail deer. Available deer browse includes guajillo, black brush, white brush, persimmon,

kidney wood and many others. These plants provide yearround diet that helps set the foundation for growing quality whitetail bucks.

3-Mile Ranch is located between Uvalde and La Pryor three miles east of US Highway 83. Access is via County Road 4018 which dead ends at the ranch entrance. Miles of improved interior roads provide two-wheel drive access throughout the ranch. A new perimeter game fence encloses the entire ranch. Three miles of crystal clear Nueces River is ideal for fishing, swimming and boating.

Two sets of deer breeding pens, two-story lodge, 12 ponds, and six water wells and two food plots make 3-Mile Ranch an outstanding hunting ranch. Taxes are about $2 per acre based on 1-d-1 ag use valuation. Folks this is big buck country with big bucks.

All owned minerals and executive rights convey. $3,106 per acre. Owner finance available.

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“A rare opportunity to own a part of God’s Creation with “3-Miles” of crystal clear sparkling Nueces River flowing by the 3-Mile Ranch.”

— JESSE LOCKHART, JR.

DETAILS PROPERTY 3-MILE RANCH 3,525± Acres // Zavala County Property ID: 1128254 OFFERED AT $10,948,650 | Owner Finance Available CONTACT LOCKHART REAL ESTATE Jesse Lockhart, Jr. / Broker lockhart@swtexas.net (830) 234-3415 10351 Highway 335 // Barksdale, Texas 78828 www.jlockhartrealestate.com view all properties: LandsofTexas.com/member/1229

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TWIN CREEKS RANCH 640± ACRES | BURNET COUNTY

For the first time in over twenty years, the opportunity has arisen to own one of the most special and treasured ranches in all of Central Texas. A truly remarkable and rare find.

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ne hour from Downtown Austin, the Twin Creeks Ranch near Marble Falls is a live-water paradise. With magnificent rock-bottomed Hamilton Creek traversing this rolling Hill Country ranch for well over a mile and spring-fed Hairston Creek for nearly a half-mile, there is no lack of live-water. An engineered, concrete dam on Hairston

Creek creates a permanent body of water of over five acres in size that affords excellent fishing for bass, catfish and bluegill. At the confluence of the two creeks, a magnificent 5,200-square-foot custom home was built in the perfect location to fully appreciate the natural beauty of both creeks. The site is extremely private being over a half-mile from the nearest public road with none of the improvements visible from neighboring ranches. Sitting on the back porch overlooking the creek, you feel like you are hundreds of miles from civilization! This truly relaxing and peaceful setting must be seen to be appreciated. Excellent wildlife habitat exists with a wide variety of trees, brush and native grasses such as live oak, elm, sycamore, pecan, mesquite, cedar, persimmon and others. The entire ranch is enclosed by an eight-foot game-proof fence and is home to excellent herds of whitetail deer and Rocky Mountain elk. A true sportsmen’s paradise offering the finest in hunting and fishing on a square-mile of the magnificent Texas Hill Country! Rolling hills, wide meandering creek bottoms, open meadows and dense brush offer the diversity necessary to make this the perfect hunting ranch. Minerals Available. Co-listed with Brandy Archer of KW Realty.

DETAILS PROPERTY TWIN CREEKS RANCH 640± Acres // Burnet County Property ID: 2259275 OFFERED AT $8,250,000 CONTACT RANCH INVESTMENTS John Ed Stepan / Principal Info@RanchInvestments.com (800) 447-8604 PO Box 6309 // San Antonio, Texas 78209 RanchInvestments.com view all properties: LandsofTexas.com/member/168

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his stunning 10,500-acre, West Texas mountain ranch located in the majestic Davis Mountain Range was established in 1893 and has been a successful cattle ranch for five generations. The terrain of this pristine ranch varies from expansive pasture land to rolling hills and mountains with magnificent rock cliffs and nice oak motts. Miles of groomed roads and numerous water sources

are located throughout the ranch. Being an easy five mile drive south of historic Alpine, the Stringfellow Ranch provides the best of both worlds—ranch life with the conveniences of a thriving small town. With three well maintained homes at the headquarters located a quarter mile from the main entrance off of Highway 118, the ranch provides for a comfortable family or corporate retreat. There is much to be enjoyed on this ranch. It is truly an outdoorsman’s paradise. Days can be spent hunting, horseback riding, hiking, rock climbing, mountain biking, or whatever else the heart of an outdoorsmen can cook up. Nicely groomed roads throughout the ranch allow easy exploration by vehicle or ATV. Every day is capped off by a beautiful sunset. And, the brilliant starry night sky can be taken in while camping or from the comfort of a rocking chair on the front porch. This historic ranch is being listed for sale for the first time since its establishment and is one of the largest and perhaps one of the last true mountainv ranches in West Texas. The Stringfellow Ranch is definitely a gem and one-of-a-kind. Property ID: 2730266

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2 LAKES RANCH 835± ACRES | GILLESPIE COUNTY

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ncredible deal on the two largest lakes on a private ranch in the Hill Country area one hour west of Austin and San Antonio. This location could not be better for an outdoorsman that wants to be close to a town that has every need possible like Fredericksburg, yet wants to be away from it all under a blanket of stars without city lights interfering. In the middle of the ranch lies a 28-acre, entirely private lake that is loaded with largemouth bass and during the winter covered up with ducks and geese. On one side of the lake is a beautiful rolling pasture of coastal Bermuda with grandaddy oak trees along the shoreline. The other side of the lake rolls up to a hill lined with elms, live oaks and scattered mottes of shin oaks. The massive dam and overflow spillway are an amazing 1,500 feet long and managed to an incredible level to be covered in coastal Bermuda and completely free of any intrusive brush or tree cover.

An amazing amount of work has gone into this over the years to be in the perfect shape it’s in and many local and migratory game rely on it as a water source throughout the year. The second amazing water feature of the ranch is the 42-acre lake. This lake is owned with two other neighbors and has the best side being out of the flood plain with 1,700 feet of shoreline. Standing on the shoreline and looking across to the other shoreline

is 1,600 feet long in distance. 2 Lakes Ranch is home to monster whitetail as well as many axis. The ranch owners have released bucks all the way up to 240 inches to breed does that were brought up and released from South Texas. If you like turkey—this is another bonus— there are hundreds. The owners have just stocked the 28-acre lake with 8,000 bluegill to maximize the bass growth. There have also been 50–60 cedar trees dragged into the lake to provide excellent structure for the bait fish and bass. There is a new gorgeous 36x60 Teton-style barn overlooking the 28-acre lake. It is setup to use for horses, cattle, or any livestock situation. The 42-acre lake has a 32x30 covered boat dock with a bass boat slip, fishing area, fish feeder, and ladder. The 28-acre lake has a 40-foot bridge that goes out onto an 8x10 platform used to tie up kayaks and provide a platform for the fish feeder. To get around to all of these improvements there are 10 miles of roads freshly bladed and smoothed out. The fencing around the ranch is in great shape with cross-fencing and multiple pastures fenced to help move livestock around. This ranch has multiple different potential uses. It would be incredible as a camp, a high-end resort, a premiere hunting and fishing lodge, a development, an excellent investment, or a very nice personal recreational ranch.

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“This ranch is truly a showplace and is beyond a shadow of a doubt one of the top ranches in the entire Hill Country. It’s not the new skeet range, bass boat dock, kayak dock, Teton cedar barn, smooth roads, giant oaks, pecan tree groves, or great soils that make this place a top notch ranch...There are other ranches that have those items. The diamonds on this ranch are the 28-acre lake and the 42-acre lake that get covered with ducks and geese. I’ve searched high and low and can’t find bigger lakes on a private ranch in the Hill Country.”

— ALLEN SHANNON

DETAILS PROPERTY 2 LAKES RANCH // 835± Acres Gillespie County // Property ID: 2480261 OFFERED AT $8,767,500 CONTACT PLATINUM RANCHES Allen@PlatinumRanches.com (512) 636-3105 Bee Cave, Texas 78643 www.PlatinumRanches.com view all properties: LandsofTexas.com/member/12771

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TEXAS RANCHES HAVE A DREAM BEHIND EVERY TREE.

Working with buyers and sellers in the Hill Country, South Texas, East Texas, and West Texas.

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id you know there are ways to balance oil and gas production with conservation, so society can enjoy the benefits of both? These two activities do not have to be exclusive of one another. You can explore for gas and oil, with conservation intentions. How? Through what is known as a conservation easement.

“What is a conservation easement?” A conservation easement (also known as a conservation restriction or conservation agreement) is a voluntary legal agreement between a landowner and a land trust or government agency that permanently limits uses of the land in order to protect its conservation values. It allows landowners to continue to own and use their land, and they can also sell it or pass it on to heirs. The limits of the conservation easement “run with the land,” meaning that even if the land is inherited or sold the restrictions stay in place.

The tax treatment of a conservation easement is laid out in the Tax Code in IRC Section 170(h). You get a charitable deduction for the value of the easement when the easement is donated to a qualified land trust or governmental agency. This can be a nice income tax break, especially since you are not giving up your land.

You are just determining to preserve it in its current state. The value of your deduction should be determined by a sound valuation, which must be done by a qualified appraiser experienced with conservation easements. This choice can also make a lot of sense for estate planning purposes because it saves your heirs money on estate taxes. Long after you’re gone, a conservation easement will ensure your land is used according to your wishes too.

On the topic of mineral rights the tax code is clear—a conservation easement prohibits surface mining. Period. That said, a conservation easement can work with sub-surface gas and oil exploration, if you follow the rules. It’s what’s known as a “qualified mineral interest.”

So, as a landowner, you shouldn’t automatically dismiss the possibility of a conservation easement for fear that it would tie your hands from potential oil and gas development on your land. Under certain circumstances, oil and gas development can occur on lands placed under a conservation easement. Sometimes it can work, sometimes it cannot. In occasions where it makes sense, this lesser known (and often misunderstood) provision in the tax code may provide an answer for some land owners and investors.

Although placed in the tax code 35 years ago during the Reagan Administration, this strategy is particularly relevant in our present era. You may have noticed that in certain financial sectors, there has been a call for investors to vacate fossil fuel investment entirely. However, for varied reasons, many land owners and investors are not convinced they should take such sweeping measures. Yet these same individuals might openly embrace oil and gas investments that were pursued with responsible environmental stewardship in mind. For this type of investor or land owner, the approach I am suggesting might be a better fit.

In circumstances where it works, the economic implications can be huge. Take a minute to imagine—a conservation easement that preserves a ranch’s splendor in perpetuity, all the while generating a charitable deduction useful to offset up to 50% of your Adjusted Gross Income. (For farmers and ranchers, it has been up to 100% of their AGI). You get to carry forward surplus deductions, possibly up to sixteen years till you are done using them. Now combine that with income from successful mineral exploration. This deduction can make some (if not much) of that mineral income tax free. And

further consider this—the CE tax benefits are not in lieu of the tax benefits already provided to gas and oil exploration. They are in addition to them! That’s right—the depletion allowances typically allowed, as well as the deductions for tangible and intangible drilling costs are all still intact to offset your risk in the deal. That’s what you could call a “Double Barrel Deduction”!

Something else your accountant is likely to love is that the tax benefits from neither CE’s nor those from gas and oil exploration are subject to “passive income limitations”. Therefore, these deductions can offset taxes on all income—from real estate rentals, REIT’s, active stock trades, businesses, royalties, capitals gains, salaries, etc. You’ve got to check with your tax professional to determine what your tax savings outcome would be. All told, this can add up to meaningful environmental benefits, and great financial returns.

Like anything else, it’s all about following the rules. I like to say “the divine is in the details”. With mineral exploration that starts with limited, localized impact. The gas and oil exploration cannot be irremediably destructive of significant conservation interests. In addition, a written plan for the remediation of the limited surface disturbance after exploration is complete is an important part of the process.

Another rule which must be considered is known as “screening.” That means essentially taking reasonable steps to camouflage, or minimize the visual impact of the facilities while mineral exploration is in process. This can be done just by choosing the right color or design of the paint applied to equipment. Have you ever seen a cell phone tower made to look like a tree? Or another type of antenna made to look like a flagpole? If so, you get the idea. This can be done at a reasonable cost, and goes a long way in honoring the provisions in the Tax Code that allow you to enjoy the benefits of conservation easements as well as the income benefits derived from successful oil and gas exploration.

It is also critically important before you get started to determine who actually owns the mineral rights. Run the title search early! Your state’s laws can be complicated, and you might not own (or control) as much as you might think.

If all this sounds complicated, it’s because it can be. But taking the extra effort to do your homework is well worth gaining the added benefits. The conservation easement process must follow exact procedures, and that’s where experienced guidance is vital.

Don’t try a CE alone. Even more so, don’t try a CE in tandem with exercising sub-surface gas and oil exploration without the right team of professionals.

This type of effort can reap great environmental and financial rewards, but here is a three step road map to success: 1. STEP ONE is utilizing a team with a strong background in conservation easements, protecting wildlife, open space, farms and forests - but that is not enough.

2. STEP TWO is utilizing experts versed in oil, gas and mineral laws in your state, and…

3. STEP THREE is working with tax professionals who understand the requirements of IRC Section 170(h).

Following these steps, you can conserve the beauty of your land for generations to come. With the right land opportunity, expert geologists to tap into the minerals, and a qualified team of professional outlined above, gas and oil can “go green” too!

Jim Sullivan is a land conservation consultant with Forever Forests, a conservation firm based in greater Atlanta, GA—(770) 345-9457 LANDSOFAMERICAMAGAZINES.COM

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Where the Wild Goose Goes Ron and Susi Bell, founders of Wildgoose Manufacturing in Ingram, Texas, love outdoor experiences and outdoor people.

“Like us, our customers love the land, agriculture, wildlife—and they embrace the outdoor lifestyle,” said Ron, who along with his wife Susi, has been building the company since 1984. “They appreciate quality possessions and quality relationships. Those are the folks we’re drawn to—we’re blessed because those are the folks who are drawn to our products.”

Today, the couple call the Hill Country home. They manage an 11,000-square-foot facility which includes a 2,200-square-foot store and gallery, a manufacturing facility and a distribution network that includes mail and/or phone order, internet sales, and direct sales at trade shows. Their inventory includes small goods in leather and leather/nylon combinations, luggage and bags in leather and leather/nylon combinations as well as unique hand-crafted, outdoor-themed home décor and gift items.

It wasn’t always that way.

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THE BEGINNING Some businesses start on a shoestring, but not Wildgoose.

“People tell you they started their business on a shoestring. Not us,” Susi said. “We started ours barefoot in the garage—we couldn’t even afford a shoestring.”

But before there was a garage or a business or even a romance, there was the outdoors. Ron was reared in Dallas, but spent all the time he could on relatives’ farms and ranches.

“I was a country boy trapped in the city,” Ron said.

“My brother and I spent all of our time trying to get outdoors, even if that just meant playing in the back yard. The outdoors has always been part of who I am.”

As soon as he was able—and every chance he got—Ron went hunting, fishing, hiking or camping.

The really good trips involved all four things.

Susi’s family moved from the lush hills of Arkansas to the high desert of Arizona before she was born.

Her father was an extension agent affiliated with the University of Arizona. He was assigned to Navajo County in northern Arizona, where Susi spent her childhood riding horses and tagging along with her dad to nearby ranches and reservations to discuss crops and livestock. Her mother was a home demonstration agent.

“I started going to 4-H meetings before I started going to school,” Susi said. Her first project was sewing, which she began doing when she was four. Students couldn’t join 4-H until they were eight years old.

Unlike Ron, Susi didn’t start hunting until she was an interior design student at the University of Arizona in Tucson. Her immediate family, with the exception of her grandfather, weren’t hunters.

“I was the kid who was standing out by Grandpa’s dog run when he came home from bird hunting,” Susi said. “Mom told me later that I soaked it up every way I could.”

THE ROMANCE After graduating from Texas A&M University with an animal science degree and completing a stint in the Marine Corps, Ron found himself back in Dallas.

Susi had moved to Dallas to work with her brothers’ couture leather goods business. Ron was

her across-the-balcony neighbor in an apartment complex.

One night Ron hosted a dinner for his buddies to celebrate a successful hunt. The main course was aoudad steaks. He invited Susi.

“What girl in her right mind turns down the chance to eat aoudad?” Susi deadpanned.

The meal must’ve been good. It sparked a romance that led to a marriage; they have now been together 36 years. Early on, though, Susi was hard to get. She wasn’t playing. She was working almost constantly in her brothers’ start up business. In order to see her, Ron hung out there when he wasn’t at his job.

“Her brothers said, ‘You’re here all the time, you might as well be working,’” Ron said. “They weren’t joking.” Ron joined the firm and worked in marketing.

Although the company focused on high-end couture leather goods targeted to retailers frequenting the Dallas Market Center, he learned the basic principles of constructing small leather goods and bags.

“I learned a lot, but their market took me far away from the outdoors,” Ron said. “In 1984, I decided to find my way back. I wanted to establish a mail order business offering bags for outdoorsmen, but I didn’t have any products to put in a catalog or any money to get started.”

THE INSPIRATION In the early 80s, Braniff Airlines went out of business and sold off much of its equipment including at least one commercial sewing machine, which Ron bought.

“I called Susi and said, ‘I bought a sewing machine and now you’ve got to teach me to use it,’” Ron said.

She provided the expertise and Ron provided the inspiration for the initial designs. As they were combining their households, Susi found a box stuffed full of “ratty, worn out bags” and steno pads full of notes. For years, Ron had been keeping samples of bags he found useful and making notes about design and construction improvements.

“From the beginning, it was about making a better bag,” Ron said.

Their initial goal was durability and practicality.

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imagery came a bit later.) Ron researched materials finally settling on high-grade nylon Cordura that is incredibly lightweight in relation to its strength. Susi de-constructed those “ratty, worn out” bags to create patterns for the improved versions. They set up shop in their garage and an extra bedroom.

The company was born but the new business didn’t have a name until Susi recalled a story from Ron’s military days. As the tale goes, Ron and several of his friends were enjoying an adult beverage in the OCS in Quantico when the conversation turned to the young men’s future after the service. One was going to be a “real estate tycoon.”

Another was going to be a “diamond broker.” A third was going to be a “movie mogul.” When they asked Lt. Bell what he was going to do, he responded, “I’m not sure but I will go where the lone wolf calls and the wild goose goes.”

In a moment of epiphany, the couple determined their luggage would “take people where the wild goose goes and bring them home again.” Wildgoose Manufacturing was fully fledged. The bags were designed to survive the rigors of the outdoors and the airlines.

Early on, world-traveling customers put Wildgoose’s bags to the test. One day they got a call from a client who had purchased gear bags to use on a hunt in the Canadian Rockies. A pack horse took a misstep on a treacherous trail and rolled down the mountain. The client said, “The horse didn’t make it, but your bags did.”

Attention to detail and quality is the company’s hallmark.

“I don’t like to repair luggage or relationships, so we build our bags right the first time and deliver them with a level of exceptional customer service.” Ron said. “We want our customers to have a high-quality product and an even better experience.”

THE LAND In the beginning, the company relied on trade shows for sales.

This meant Susi and Ron were on the road more than they were home.

When they realized they could run their business from anywhere they began spending a few extra days in every destination. They wanted a country setting for their growing business.

Over the course of several years, they explored locations in the Northeast, the Northwest, the West, but nothing felt like home until they spent a few days in the Texas Hill Country.

“We traveled thousands of miles to realize what we already knew— nowhere beats the Texas Hill Country,” Susi said.

In the late 80s at the height of the bust, the entire Hill Country was for sale, but nobody was lending money. As a result, the Bells had to prioritize their expenditures, so purchasing the business property in Ingram came first.

“We looked all over Gillespie and Kerr counties,” Ron said. “Some remote land near Leakey called our name, but we knew we needed to be near a small town so we would have access to employees.”

Building the business trumped building a home, so 10 years passed before they purchased the country property they had always wanted. The 53-acre ranchette is about 15 minutes from their manufacturing facility. Like many Hill Country properties, it was used hard and cedar moved in. Today, they’re busy reclaiming the land that Susi has lovingly dubbed “Ron’s Agricultural Experiment Station.”

Susi requested and received a chain saw for an anniversary gift, but it quickly became apparent that cutting cedar by hand wasn’t making a significant ecological dent. They saved up and hired a cedar

shearer to tackle the thickest stands, leaving the old growth cedars and any other tree species.

“Thick cedar chokes out other plants,” Susi said. “We wanted to encourage native plants, especially trees, to come back.”

The couple planted trees, but had to contend with an overpopulation of deer who ate almost everything that poked its head up. Every tree the couple planted had to be caged and watered to give it a fighting chance.

Cedar clearing left massive brush piles. Burning brush piles wasn’t Ron’s preferred option because there were several places on the ranch where plant life hadn’t recovered after fire.

The solution? Cedar bomas patterned after the thorn hedges that protect African camps from lions.

“We created an exclosure to protect the newly cleared land from deer by stacking the cedar, either high or wide,” Susi said.

The “wide” portions are roughly 4 feet tall x 15 feet wide, while the “tall” portions are at least 6 feet tall. The Bells installed a gate so they could access to the interior.

“A neighbor who saw the property from the air told us that we’d managed to grow our own crop circles,” Ron said laughing. “It was amazing to see what came back inside the exclosure in just a year.”

A cherry tree that now stands 25 feet tall and mature walnut trees are some of the couple’s favorite comeback specimens. Bluestem, side oats grama, other native grasses and shrubs are also making a comeback in the exclosure.

“The trees that God planted and watered came up and thrived,” Ron said. “The ones we planted and watered struggled, so we decided to leave it to God.”

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THE COMMITMENT In business and in life, the Bells stand up for the things they believe in.

“It’s important in life to believe in something,” Ron said. “The same holds true for business. Our focus is on conserving the land and the wildlife. Our business is tied closely to that, so it makes sense to support organizations that value the same things.”

The Bells support a variety of conservation groups, but they are most invested in the efforts of the Texas Wildlife Association (TWA) and the Texas Bighorn Society (TBS). The groups’ focus of doing what’s best for Texas land and Texas wildlife is a strong connection point for the couple.

“They’re both Texas-based grassroots organizations that want to ensure our wild places and wild things are well taken care of,” Ron said. “They’re made up of people who are recognized ‘chiefs’ in their professions, but when they’re working for TWA and TBS they’re content to be proverbial Indians because they want to get good things done for the right reasons.”

Wildgoose has been a fixture at every TWA Convention since the second one.

“There was an immediate connection with TWA’s people and its mission because we loved talking about land and its conservation with people who appreciate it as we do,” Susi said. “When we take the time to go outdoors and just stop, look and listen the beauty is amazing.

God blesses us every minute we’re outdoors if we will slow down to appreciate it.”

To experience Wildgoose for yourself, visit the showroom at 3187 Junction Highway, Ingram, Texas which many people consider a Hill Country destination; catch them at the annual TWA Convention in San Antonio or the Safari Club International show in Las Vegas ; or visit the website at www.wildgoosetexas.net.

For discerning businesses, ranches and individuals, Wildgoose Manufacturing offers customization that ranges from branding existing products with ranch brands or corporate logos to designing a custom product from scratch.

For more information about this or any Wildgoose product or service, call (800) 749-1805 or (830) 367-5553.

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A Natural Resource for Education WRITTEN BY LORIE WOODWARD CANTU

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ature is complex. Life depends on an intricately interwoven tapestry of natural systems. When the tapestry is damaged, the repair requires an equally intricate, nuanced solution.

“The best solutions to natural resource challenges must look like—and function like—the resources that are being managed,” said Dr. Bill Eikenhorst, a Texas Wildlife Association (TWA) Life Member and TWA Executive Committee member. “In other words, success doesn’t come from a one-size-fits-all, silver bullet solution, but a nuanced, multifaceted approach built on cooperation and understanding.”

And while understanding natural resources is crucial, each succeeding generation of Texans is farther removed from the land.

“On one of our field days, I had a child tell me, ‘I didn’t know you could hear the wind,’” said Leslie Wittenburg, an Education Program Specialist with TWA. Recognizing that natural resource illiteracy was an active threat to the future of the state’s natural resources, TWA initiated Conservation Legacy, a multi-faceted education program designed to reach Texans of all ages.

“We can’t achieve natural resource literacy at the desired level with a single program approach,” Eikenhorst, who has been involved with Conservation Legacy since its inception over a decade ago, said.

Adult education efforts include a wide array of field days, symposia and webinars as well as ongoing programs such Women of the Land, Quail Masters and Wildlife Ambassadors. The cornerstones of youth education are Learning Across New Dimensions in Science (L.A.N.D.S.) and the Texas Brigades, intensive natural resource leadership camps. (See the Spring 2014 issue of Lands of Texas Magazine for more information on Texas Brigades.)

“A single program may be fantastic on its own, but it won’t achieve widespread conservation action without broad-based knowledge and support,” Eikenhorst said.

He cited an example where a participant in a Women of the Land weekend discovered Texas Brigades. She volunteered to share her time and expertise with high school students at the leadership camps the next summer.

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“To really connect people with the land, you have to go into a community—it can be a town, a county or a group of people in different geographic areas with shared interests—and develop knowledge, commitment and action on many different levels,” Eikenhorst said.

Eikenhorst, who lives in Brenham, speaks from experience. He has been involved with Conservation Legacy at the statewide level and was instrumental in establishing the L.A.N.D.S. program in the public school district in his hometown.

“Washington County isn’t better than other places, but it is different,” Eikenhorst said. “As the birthplace of Texas, our connection to the land remains deep. Early on, the name L.A.N.D.S. created more than a positive connotation here, there was an emotional connection.”

While Washington County was well-suited for a natural resource education program, circumstances at the state and local levels converged and aligned all of the necessary elements.

Statewide Forces While the Texas Legislature had mandated statewide testing for many years, science had been excluded. Then, in about 2005, the testing was expanded to include science. The Texas Essential Knowledge and Skills (TEKS) governing science were reworked, but the resources available to science teachers did not meet the new mandates. New science textbooks had been printed prior to the TEKS change but were not due to be updated again for another seven or eight years.

“The books didn’t match what we science teachers were supposed to teach kids and we didn’t have the resources to meet the mandates,” said Wittenburg, who was a middle school science teacher in Dripping Springs at the time.

One of the more challenging mandates was found in TEKS 112.19 (b) (1): Scientific investigation and reasoning: The student, for at least 40% of the instructional time, conducts laboratory and field investigations [emphasis added] following safety procedures and environmentally appropriate and ethical practices.

“With tight budgets and limited time, field experiences had become— and remain—notoriously difficult to provide,” Wittenburg said.

As these changes were making their way from Austin to local districts, TWA conservation education leaders were in San Antonio wrestling with natural resource illiteracy. Their ultimate goal was “getting yellow school buses on private lands.”

“To be valuable to the schools, the program obviously had to increase academic knowledge and offer potential for improved academic performance,” Eikenhorst said. “But to meet TWA’s objectives, the program also had to advance the conservation equation by increasing students’ understanding of private lands stewardship while creating conservation action.”

The result? L.A.N.D.S. Outreach, a program designed to expose students to the natural world in a classroom setting using distance learning, webinars, Discovery Trunks and contract educators, and L.A.N.D.S. Intensive, a year-long immersive program that includes intensive teacher training and culminates with a field experience. Every activity outlined in the L.A.N.D.S. Intensive resource guide is hands-on.

Wittenburg tested the pilot program for L.A.N.D.S. Intensive in her classroom.

“The invitation went something like this: We’ve got a new hands-on science program built around quail. We’ll train you and provide all the classroom resources you need including a comprehensive lesson guide.

Your students will have the opportunity to perform a necropsy on quail—we’ll bring the quail and volunteers. Then, you and your students will have a field experience on a private ranch; we’ll provide the activities, the experts and volunteers, so all you’ll have to do is get your students on the bus and bring some parent chaperones,’” Wittenburg said. “All I could say was ‘yes.’”

Wittenburg was so impressed with the program and her students’ response, she left classroom teaching just five years before being eligible for state teacher retirement benefits to be one of the three statewide managers of L.A.N.D.S. Intensive.

“L.A.N.D.S. instills passion in the students, the teachers and the volunteers,” Wittenburg said.

Local Forces At the same time Brenham ISD, working with community members, was engaged in long-term planning. The group concluded it would be useful to have “subject specialists,” who were responsible for enhancing individual subject areas.

Nancy Oertli, who was a middle school science teacher then, got the nod.

Her new job description? “Fix science.” Her response? Outdoor education.

“When I was a child, outdoor education totally changed my academic experience,” she said. “It was where I naturally turned. Our goal was to better prepare our younger students for high school science by giving them a bank of experiences to draw on.”

Some unique pieces fell into place. First, the school district built a new elementary school. A portion of the 25-acre site was in a flood plain making it unsuitable for school buildings, but ideal for an Outdoor Education Center that was targeted to the youngest learners, Pre-K through fourth grade.

Volunteers from the community helped initiate it, and provide the expertise to staff it.

Second, the district applied for and received a grant from the Texas Parks & Wildlife Department that allowed the development of a water issues program for fifth and sixth graders. Nearby Lake Somerville is the sole source of Brenham’s drinking water and the curriculum helps students see the connection between the land, water and their actions. They travel to the state park to conduct field tests and get up close and personal with nature.

Then, Oertli got introduced to L.A.N.D.S. L.A.N.D.S. Intensive proved to be missing piece for seventh and eighth graders. The district adopted the existing quail program for seventh graders. Then, under the leadership of eighth grade science teacher Allison Bentke, developed a program built around white-tailed deer for eighth graders. Every step of the way, they enlisted the support and expertise of people in the local community including partners at the Texas Parks & Wildlife Department, the Natural Resources Conservation Service, Texas AgriLife Extension and local Master Naturalists.

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The Scoop on L.A.N.D.S. Outreach L.A.N.D.S. Outreach is a multi-pronged program designed to bring natural resources education into the classroom. Last year, the program reached 212,000 students across Texas with its TEKS-aligned materials.

“L.A.N.D.S. Outreach doesn’t take students outside, but it was created to pique their interest in the outdoors through hands-on, interactive learning,” said Kassi Scheffer, Education Program Specialist. “We want them to know that everyone has a stake and role in conserving our natural resources.”

The program delivers information to students using four different avenues: Discovery Trunks, Wildlife by Design, Distance Learning, and Teacher Workshops. The programs are TEKS aligned, free and suitable for students K-8, depending on content.

They encompass a single lesson or a short series of lessons.

“We know teachers’ time is at a premium, so we concentrate on making our materials comprehensive, easy-to-use and substantial,” Scheffer said. “We understand the experience has to be valuable for the teachers and the students.”

• DISCOVERY TRUNKS are treasure chests of natural resource information filled with hands-on teaching aids that are not readily available to educators. For instance, the “Exploring Adaptations” trunk includes skulls and pelts, so students can see first-hand the differences between Texas’ native species.

There are seven different topics. Each comes with extensive lesson plans that are classroom proven, and make the process easy for teachers, whether they are natural resource experts or newbies.

The trunks are available across Texas and can be reserved for two weeks by anyone educating students including classroom teachers, homeschool parents, and volunteers such Boy Scout or 4-H leaders.

• DISTANCE LEARNING uses technology to bridge the gap between students and the natural world—and between TWA educators and the rest of the state. Teachers have access to Video Conferencing and Webinars.

• Schools with VIDEO CONFERENCING capability can register for one of TWA’s regularly scheduled live video feeds. Topics include: ASI: Animal Skull Investigation; BATS: LIVE on the BIG Screen; Let’s Talk Turkey; More Than a Drop; The Magic of Monarchs; and more.

Most of the video conferences involve live animals, which allows the students to get up close and personal.

“During the bat program, the camera zooms in on the face of a bat,” Scheffer said. “It’s fed a meal worm and the kids can hear the crunch as the bat eats it.”

resources, the community and educational curriculum together,” said Natalie James, Outdoor Education Specialist for Brenham ISD. “We’re using local experts to teach concepts that our science teachers may not be as familiar with, which allows us to present strong content in the context of our local environment.”

Washington County was settled by hardy German immigrants who brought a strong sense of community across the ocean. It came with an undeniable work ethic, a sense of personal responsibility and a leadership ethos. There is widespread commitment to volunteerism.

Volunteerism is important because it can take up to 40 volunteers to host a field day, depending on the number of students in a grade level.

Plus, they deliver implicit messages.

“We’re introducing volunteers into the students’ lives,” James said. “By being here, the volunteers not only transfer their knowledge, but reinforce the idea that learning and education are important. With their actions, they demonstrate we all have a responsibility to our community, the natural world and each other.”

Embracing a “web of life” mindset, the organizers include graduates of Texas Brigades, who are local high school students, as volunteers and teachers whenever possible. In the 14 years since the creation of Brigades, 70 Washington County students have completed the program.

“Peer teaching is very powerful for the students receiving information and those providing it,” Bentke, who also served as a Herd Leader at the South Texas Buckskin Brigade, said. Having Brigades cadets involved, also functions as a recruitment tool for that program.

“It’s all about creating that interwoven web of natural resource knowledge and opportunities that leads to conservation action,” Eikenhorst said.

Plus, the hands-on nature of the program gives the middle school students something to hold on to, literally and figuratively. The standard middle school experience may include the opportunity to dissect a frog and perhaps a cow eye. By the time, Brenham middle schoolers have completed the seventh and eighth grade, they’ve necropsied a quail, participated in a deer necropsy led by veterinarians, and have completely dissected the heart and lungs of a deer.

“When students can touch and feel something, the learning experience is more effective,” Bentke said. “The memory will be clearer and their understanding and recall will be better. Hands-on experiences provide a foundation for the next level of learning because there is a greater connection to the information.”

• On-demand WEBINARS, featuring TWA’s most popular topics, provide maximum scheduling flexibility because they’re available 24/7 on the TWA website (texas-wildlife.org). Teachers are asked to register. Then they can access the video lessons, which are 20 minutes – 30 minutes long, and the accompanying lesson worksheets.

• WILDLIFE BY DESIGN classroom presentations are available regionally in the Houston, Dallas-Fort Worth and Lower Rio Grande Valley areas. These presentations delivered by TWA educators are hands-on, TEKS aligned and unit specific.

Teachers can choose from four pre-designed lessons or can work with TWA educators to develop custom content. Each lesson is designed to be delivered within 30 minutes – 60 minutes, a classroom period, and is suited for up to 45 students at a time.

• TEACHER WORKSHOPS are available in the Houston, DallasFort Worth, and Lower Rio Grande Valley areas. The six-hour workshops fulfill Continuing Education requirements. During the workshop, TWA’s educator’s lead K-8 teachers of all subjects through 10 activities, and teachers leave the workshop with a digital copy of over 25 natural resource lessons.

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For instance, when the students study respiration in high school biology they will have seen lung tissue first hand, so alveoli is more than just a word, she said. They will have the clear memory of a veterinarian explaining oxygen transfer, so the information is not new, but additive.

James said, “Our middle school students get experiences that many college graduates haven’t had.”

Of course, the big question is whether or not the L.A.N.D.S. program is making a difference. Academically, James reports science test scores are consistently above the state average. But observation indicates the impact extends far beyond academic benchmarks.

Bentke has seen many of her former middle school students go on to pursue science-based careers.

“Years later they come back into my room and are still talking about the hands-on lessons,” Bentke said. “It’s not just that they remember what we did, but that it opened up a new world to them. The hands-on learning and new understanding inspired their career choices. It, along with the volunteer mentorship, empowered them to do things they didn’t think possible.”

Eikenhorst, too, has seen the impact beyond the classroom. He encountered a two siblings in the aisle of the supermarket. The brother and sister introduced themselves, reminding him that he had taught them as middle school students through L.A.N.D.S. They introduced him to their mother, who spoke very little English.

As the family’s story unfolded, the teens’ grandfather had suffered a major heart attack. When the doctors began explaining the treatment options, the language barrier could’ve been an issue, but because the students had completed the intensive study of a deer’s heart and lungs, they understood the basic anatomy and function of the organs. They were able to explain their grandfather’s condition to their parents.

“The impact of L.A.N.D.S. goes far beyond science and conservation to the betterment of health in the community, whether that comes from cleaner water, improved wildlife habitat, or a better understanding of the students’ own bodies,” Eikenhorst said. “When implemented well, L.A.N.D.S. has the potential to affect local communities in a way that traditional education may not.”

While Washington County is a unique location, so is every other city and town.

“Someone could replicate this program exactly as we do it here in Brenham, but it wouldn’t work the same way because every community, every school, and every person involved is different,” James said. “But that’s the beauty of community-based outdoor education—it doesn’t have to be the same because the best programs are unique to their homes.”

The Scoop on L.A.N.D.S. Intensive L.A.N.D.S. Intensive is an immersive experience designed to take place over the course of a school year and involve an entire grade level. The free, TEKSaligned program is suitable for students in grades 6-12.

It includes a quail necropsy and a field experience. In 2014, it reached 10,635 students across Texas.

“The goal of L.A.N.D.S is two-fold,” Leslie Wittenburg, Education Program Specialist for TWA, said. “First, we want engage and educate students, our future decision makers, about natural resources. Second, we want to provide teachers unique, impactful educational resources that helps them prepare their students for state-mandated testing.”

Participating teachers attend a 2 ½ day teacher training that not only introduces them to the information, but provides them an opportunity to experience the same type field day their students will experience.

“Our training allows teachers to experience the program first-hand,” Wittenburg said. “We also teach them how to adapt our education materials to their schools.”

Because L.A.N.D.S. Intensive is a valuable, handson experience, the students respond—and so do the teachers.

“This program has reignited the passion for teaching in more than one educator,” Wittenburg said. “L.A.N.D.S. Intensive is the type of education experience that drew teachers to the classroom in the first place—you get to see the kids eyes light up with understanding and they begin to push for more information. They’re engaged on a level that makes the passion for learning contagious.”

For more information about L.A.N.D.S. Intensive or L.A.N.D.S. Outreach including Wildlife by Design, Discovery Trunks, Distance Learning or teacher training, visit www.texas-wildlife.org or call (800) 839-9453.

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“Failure to prepare is preparing to fail.”

— BENJAMIN FRANKLIN

Ranch Prep for Bowhunters WRITTEN BY GREG SIMONS

WILDLIFE BIOLOGIST | WILDLIFE CONSULTANTS, LLC

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PREPARING FOR BOWHUNTERS IS A DIFFERENT CHALLENGE THAN PREPARING FOR RIFLE HUNTERS. FOR MANY YEARS I BOWHUNTED ALMOST EXCLUSIVELY AND DEVELOPED KEEN AWARENESS OF ARCHERS’ SPECIFIC NEEDS. HERE ARE SOME TIPS TO HELP YOU MEET THE NEEDS OF ANY BOWHUNTERS WHO MAY BE HUNTING ON YOUR PROPERTY. PRACTICE TARGETS Upon the hunters’ arrival, the first order of business usually is taking them to range to check their equipment. For archers, you need to have some type of target butt that is well-suited for arrows, including broadheads. The market offers many options, but don’t assume hay bales are adequate for today’s modern archery equipment because they’re generally not.

Ranches specializing in archery hunting may want to consider setting up an archery course with animal-image targets that mimics certain hunting settings. This type of course not only allows bowhunters to hone their skills, but can provide added mid-day recreational value.

To give archers the edge that preparation provides, the range may also include shooting stations built with blinds, tripods, lock-on ladders or whatever the ranch uses in the field. This allows the hunters to check their equipment and become accustomed to the set-up they’ll be using.

STANDS/BLINDS When it comes to stands and blinds, the needs of bowhunters and rifle hunters are very different.

In areas that have large trees, portable tree stands have been popular for many years. Fixed or permanent type blinds that are built into larger trees used to be fairly common, but some landowners don’t want to attach structures to their valuable trees and have become concerned about the safety of tree stands.

In regions without big trees, portable tripods can be a handy option.

By placing these tripod stands that are often 10 feet – 15 feet tall within the screening cover of a juniper, large mesquite or live oak tree, you can often create a set-up where the hunter is well-hidden, but has some shooting lanes for shot options.

Recently, pop-up blinds have mushroomed in popularity. As long as these are placed out several days prior to the hunt, game tends to get used to the pop-ups’ presence. By limiting the number of windows opened for shooting to two, you can maintain darkness inside the blind which helps hide the hunter’s movements.

Make sure the enclosure allows plenty of room to fully draw the bow without interference from the back of the blind.

You might also take some branches and foliage from nearby trees and brush and place it around the blind to provide for even greater concealment, but make sure there aren’t any small twigs or leaves in the path of a clear shot.

BLIND PLACEMENT Blind placement is extremely important when it comes to providing a bowhunter with a reasonable shot once the animal is within rage.

Although many archers may be relatively proficient on paper at ranges out to 60 yards – 70 yards, the effective range for most bowhunters is 20 yards – 40 yards.

If blinds are placed at waterholes or feeders, you should assume that animals will often circle downwind, so I suggest blinds be placed 40 yards – 70 yards on the downwind side of these sites. If I place a pop-up blind on a feeder, I often place it about 50 yards downwind of the feeder, but will hand feed an area that’s about 20 yards – 30 yards in front of the blind, beginning a few days prior to the hunt. ”Bottlenecks” can be great locations for blind placement. These are generally natural areas where animals must pass through narrow corridors while moving from one location to another, such as moving between bedding and feeding areas.

RETRIEVING WOUNDED ANIMALS “When in doubt, keep out” is a good rule when pursuing game wounded with archery equipment. If the shot placement appears to be good, I like to wait for at least 30 minutes – 45 minutes before taking up the blood trail on archery-hit animals. If the shot appears to be marginal or poor, such as an arrow that is placed too far back, I recommend waiting at least two hours before pursing these animals.

If you’ll be hosting bowhunters regularly, it’s a good idea to have someone locally who has trailing dogs available just in case. Frankly, this isn’t a bad idea with rifle hunting operations either.

CLOSING THOUGHTS I’ve found that few operations are set up to effectively accommodate bowhunters. In fact, many hunting operators aren’t interested in hosting archers because of the extra preparation it takes to cater to this segment of the hunting public; however, I’ve found that some of the most accomplished woodsmen and best all-around hunters happen to be those people who prefer to pursue their quarry with stick and string.

In my opinion, one of the best features of bowhunting is the opportunity to observe animals at close range, which creates a unique opportunity to learn natural history first hand. But, whether you choose to hunt with a gun or bow, Mother Nature provides a great outdoor classroom for those interested in understanding her ways.

TO LEARN MORE ABOUT PREPARING YOUR LAND TO HOST HUNTERS OR IMPROVING YOUR HABITAT, CONTACT WILDLIFE CONSULTANTS AT (325) 655-0877 OR SEE OUR WEBSITE AT WWW.THEWILDLIFECONSULTANTS.COM.

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n October 9th of this year the United States Court Of Appeals for the 6th Circuit Court issued an “Order Of Stay” for the entire United States, which consolidated over 40 lawsuits brought against the Environmental Protection Agency and the Army Corps of Engineers that were filed in a number of different courts. This stay basically holds all of the suits at bay until proper jurisdiction can be determined by the Court.

The Court held that the petitioners have demonstrated a substantial “possibility” of success on the merits of their claim.

In the Order, Judge McKeague states “A stay allows for a more deliberate determination whether this exercise of Executive power, enabled by Congress and explicated by the Supreme Court, is proper under the dictates of federal law. A stay temporarily silences the whirlwind of confusion that springs from uncertainty about the requirements of the new Rule and whether they will survive legal testing”.

So what does this mean for you and me? First things first, for now, we will continue to live under the Clean Water Act rules and regulations that were in place prior to the adoption of the new Rule on August 28th of this year. Second, it means that it could be a long time before we have any definitive action on the new rules and regulations that the EPA and the Corps have recently adopted. So sit back and enjoy this reprieve for as long as it lasts. The matter of proper jurisdiction by the court could be decided in a few weeks or it could take many months; in the meantime all parties will be rounding up their respective armies and preparing to do battle in court.

We can get bogged down in the validity of who has jurisdiction and the legal minutia or we can gaze beyond those arguments and take a look at what is truly at stake here. When our Founding Fathers wrote our constitution they were very explicit about what powers the Unites States was to have and left all other powers to the individual States; those powers not explicitly delineated in the constitution were to be retained by the states. By now you are asking “so what does that have to do with the Clean Water Act”?

The implementation of this new Rule by the EPA and the Corps expands their jurisdiction far beyond what was intended

by Congress, the recent rulings of the Supreme Court or the constitutional ideal of States Rights. Whether or not these agencies properly followed the Administrative Procedures Act will be decided in a court of law but whether or not what they are doing is right or wrong is a decision each of us as Americans needs to make. This Rule is one of the largest usurpations of private property rights that has ever been perpetrated on the American people and it is being done under the guise of “clean water”. Who among us doesn’t want and believe in clean water?

When reading the Rule, it talks about jurisdiction of water and the waters of the U.S. however when they define water, what they are really talking about is the water and the land

from which the water drains. The definition of “waters” is such that you are talking about regulating land in many cases and not actual water. The definition of this new rule will include ephemeral streams, ditches, low spots, dry gullies, etc.; as well as the land that is adjacent to or abuts those areas for distances ranging from 100 feet to as much as 4,000 feet.

So if you have a dry ditch or gully on your property then it could include the width of the gully plus an area up to one half mile on each side of that making it a total width of over one mile which the EPA could claim jurisdiction. When you plot this out on a map in some states it will encompass as much as 96% of the total land mass of the state that the federal government will have jurisdictional control over. This is not what our Constitution or our Congress intended. When creating this rule, in hearings, the EPA said that the Rapanos ruling left 60% of the nation’s streams and millions of acres of land that “lacked clear Federal regulation”. Remember that the Clean Water Act already covered a large portion of the streams and land in the U.S. and the EPA was looking at the balance. The Rapanos case was the seminal case addressing the permissible federal jurisdiction over the waters of the U.S. In that case Justice Kennedy’s opinion stated that the federal government only had jurisdiction over those waters that had a “significant nexus” to a water that has been traditionally subject to federal regulation. (Rapanos v. United States, 547 U.S. 715, 62 ERC 1481, U.S. 2006) What was traditional was the “navigable waters of the U.S.” This rule has deleted the term “navigable” turning all waters into the waters of the U.S. In addition the idea of a significant nexus has been expanded to include just about any water that will run off a property or remain standing on a property and in some cases even water that percolates through a property. This water along with hundreds of millions of acres of land is what is at stake in this case, do not let anyone tell you otherwise.

What President Obama could not get passed through Congress, he has unleashed on the federal agencies or signed into law by fiat. In this case he has encouraged the EPA to do an end-around the Congress by rewriting the agencies rules and implementing ideas and regulations that have not been thoroughly vetted by our elected representatives. The EPA has been extremely aggressive in campaigning for the new rule instead of doing their job of administration and management of the rules set forth by Congress.

You will read many articles arguing the nuances of the law and who has or should have jurisdiction of the numerous lawsuits before the courts. Let’s not forget what is at the basis of what is being discussed and that is the federal regulation of hundreds of millions of acres of land in the Unites States. The House of Representatives has already passed a bill to send this Rule back to be more fully vetted with inputs from the States and property owners across America… Now the Senate needs to act.

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Your Brand is More than a Mark WRITTEN BY MIKE CIESIENSKY

LANDBROKERWEBSITES.COM | A CRYSTALCORE.NET DIVISION

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ou know what it takes build a strong business. Hard work. Long hours. Delivering value. Building trust. Whether you work with livestock or the land you love, your brand is more than just a mark. It’s the principles you live by, the way you treat people, the promises you keep, the value of your handshake.

The intangibles establish your brand, and you focus on them every day as a matter of habit. Each morning, you take time to get ready for the day. You think about what’s most important. You dress in something that makes you feel good. Something that says you are good at what you do. Something that showcases who you are and lets people know they can trust you. You drive to your office, with that sign that cost you a lot of money and the lobby chairs that say “come sit”. Pictures of your family. Strong coffee. Fresh water for your thirsty guests. Something that showcases who you are and lets people know they can trust you. You move to the tangibles and ensure your name is spelled right on your business cards. The logo is the one you approved. Your print advertisements look good, and this year’s Christmas cards turned out great! Something that showcases who you are and lets people know they can trust you.

The physical you, the professional you, is ready for business. But what about the digital you? That’s right; the digital you. With 90% of today’s buyers and sellers using the internet to research their options before ever contacting an agent, it doesn’t matter if you wore your good boots, stocked the coffee, or upgraded to the embossed cards if the digital you left the house in pajamas.

In today’s world, the digital you is working 24x7 through your website, social media, and emails that come and go at all hours. Does your digital brand showcase who you are and let people know they can trust you?

There is a lot of good news about the digital you. Digital you works 24 hours a day. Digital you brings in new business and doesn’t require commission. Digital you can talk to one specific client, or all your clients at the same time. Digital you can show property immediately, at any time of

day, without any notice. Digital you can show 15 properties at once. Digital you can do quite a bit.

So where do you start? How do you know what digital you looks like? Google yourself! Google your name. Google your company name. Google one of your properties. Google your phone number. Who will you meet? Is it someone that showcases who you are and lets people know they can trust you?

Polishing your digital brand should start with the basics; your website.

Having a website is no longer an option, but more than that, your website is the single most important tool to represent you online. At a minimum, it should be simple to use, easy to access the information desired, and it must work. Most importantly, it should showcase who you are and let people know they can trust what you say. Not so basic are the many amazing web tools available to help you really showcase your properties and enhance your client interaction. Things like high quality photos, property and agent profile films, enhanced mapping tools, mobile friendly technology, email marketing, and database integration with companies like Lands of America to automate property updates.

Social media is also important because it gives your company a voice. It allows you to directly communicate with your clients in real time without having to stand right next to them. It is an invaluable tool for brand recognition, client feedback, referral sales, market research, concept development, and it is extremely cost-effective. However, if you do not actively manage it, it can produce negative results. So, if you do not intend to manage and maintain your social media sites, do not create them. Social media sites are an extension of your business. You must have someone manning the desk in order to showcase who you are and let people know they can trust you.

Branding is really the art of managing perceptions. It’s making the unseen seen. For help assessing the needs of your digital brand, call me at (214) 325-4051. I’d love to help.

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ASSOCIATION REPORT

TEXAS WILDLIFE ASSOCIATION 30 YEARS OF ACHIEVEMENT

BY DAVID YEATES, CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICER

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s 2015 draws to a close, the Texas Wildlife Association (TWA) concludes its 30th anniversary. In 1985, a group of outdoorsmen, landowners, ranchers and wildlife professionals banded together to contest a legislative effort to ban the use of high-fencing in Texas. The TWA forefathers successfully defended landowners’ rights to use high fences as a management tool. From that effort, TWA was born.

Since that time, TWA has grown into what few, if any, could have expected; however, we have kept public policy at the front of our mission to great effect. For instance, TWA is singularly responsible for conceiving and passing wildlife valuation for ad valorem taxes. An amendment to the Texas Constitution was required to make this tool available for landowners across the state. TWA conducted the campaign, footed the bill and eventually secured passage. More recently, TWA started the legislative process that ended with legislative recognition of groundwater as private property belonging to the landowner.

Our efforts now focus on reforming eminent domain statutes, defending groundwater ownership, balancing concerns with captive cervid trade practices and keeping a vigilant eye out for abridgment of private property rights of any type.

While public policy can be considered “the wolf at the door” in terms of immediate impact on the rural landscape of Texas, TWA doesn’t stop there. We believe that to effectively defend private property and the conservation efforts conducted on those lands we must educate our population. We pursue that goal through two broad program initiatives: Conservation Legacy and Hunting Heritage.

Conservation Legacy is a stair-step approach to natural resource education that begins in elementary school with very basic curriculum focusing on native animals such as bats, butterflies and birds. It is designed to open children’s eyes to the natural world outside of their neighborhoods and schoolyards. Middle school students are treated to field days held on private ranches and river banks, where the water cycle is demonstrated and lessons on erosion and biological diversity are delivered. High school students are recruited to attend the Texas Brigades summer leadership camps. High-achieving Brigades’ graduates are invited to participate in a public policy introductory program, which includes a visit to the State Capitol with a mock committee presentation to legislators.

Adults are provided workshops and symposia focusing on best management practices for their property. These workshops cover a

broad array of topics and are taught by experts from across the state.

The programs include Quail Masters and Women of the Land, along with seminars on water, wildlife, brush control, prescribed burning and landowner liability to name a few.

All of our education programs emphasize the value of private land stewardship. We are proud to report that last year, TWA, using a staff of 15, educated more than 500,000 Texans through these programs.

While Conservation Legacy focuses on educational opportunities, Hunting Heritage is an effort to actively recruit and retain hunters in Texas.

Not only is hunting a cornerstone of Texas history and culture, but it’s the primary funding source of wildlife conservation across the state. License fees fund our state game wardens and wildlife biologists; excise taxes fund the state park system and shooting sports programs; lease revenues incentivize landowners to manage for wildlife; traveling hunters support rural economies through hospitality, supply and service businesses.

TWA addresses Hunting Heritage with two programs: the Texas Youth Hunting Program (TYHP) and Texas Big Game Awards (TBGA). TYHP introduces youth to hunting in a safe, responsible and ethical manner. Our four-member staff recruits landowners, volunteers, and qualifying hunters. Then, staff aligns all three components. Last year, TYHP hosted over 1,500 young hunters on about 150 different properties across Texas with the assistance of hundreds of trained and vetted volunteers. To say that TYHP is making a difference is an understatement.

TBGA recognizes hunter achievement and landowner contributions to wildlife habitat through a series of regional awards banquets and a statewide awards banquet at the annual TWA Convention. While the 200-class mule deer are show-stoppers, the six-year-old girl receiving her “First Time Harvest” certificate is what the program is really all about.

TBGA receives about 1,200 entries per year. Scoring data and county information are provided to the Texas Parks and Wildlife Department for research purposes.

The staff and volunteer leadership of TWA are proud of our work and the results our organization has achieved, but we recognize that it’s only possible because of others. We are standing on the shoulders of the visionary giants who started this venture 30 years ago. We operate on the generous financial support of our members, sponsors and funding partners. We are steered by the wisdom and feedback from our Board of Directors and members. Please join us as we work for tomorrow’s wildlife…today.

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Land, Water, and Wildlife Issues AS MEMBERS OF THE TEXAS WILDLIFE ASSOCIATION, we are asking our neighbors who are fellow conservationists, ranchers, and hunters to join our vital efforts. Your membership will help promote Texas’ hunting traditions and develop opportunities for new generations to know the pleasures of Texas outdoors. By joining, you will strengthen our work with legislators, educators and wildlife biologists to protect private lands and the many species of wildlife they support. The future of our wildlife populations depends on you.

Join your neighbors today!

For more information on becoming a member of the Texas Wildlife Association, please visit www.texas-wildlife.org/membership

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BY TYLER JACOBS, PRESIDENT

he farm and ranch market has proven once again to be dynamic and somewhat unpredictable for most of our expert member brokers of TLBN. Pricing continues to demonstrate weaker demand in some of the more utility and common type of parcels, including dryland farms, some timber, HBU/transitional parcels and even ranches that might be overly improved. In contrast, there are ranches and farms that demonstrate a localized high demand that are often quickly purchased at a premium, largely with cash buying power. Summer as usual had its highs and lows, with most of the market hitting a definitive pause for most of August.

October, as predicted, generated a flurry of transactions and saw a good deal of inventory purchased out of the market. Most farm and brokers agree that the market is generally limited in inventory, and until changes are observed there, we will continue to report similar findings.

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had the honor this year to represent an organization of Rural Ranch Brokers I’ve admired for many years. The Texas Alliance of Land Brokers was established by a small group of Ranch Brokers in 1992 that truly loved this State and the private property rights that inherently come with landownership in Texas. Honesty, integrity and professionalism are ingrained in this group of highly respected Ranch Brokers. I have never heard of one negative comment brought against the founding members of the Alliance. Their integrity and respect for this great State was reflected in their business practices and the establishment of the original Texas Land Brokers organization. The group grew as more rural land brokers of the same beliefs and business practices became members of the Texas Alliance of Land Brokers. The TALB has grown to over 275 active land brokers and affiliates. Our members understand the value of land ownership and provide expertise to families seeking recreational opportunities Texas offers and private property rights our forefathers fought to establish. Our ability to network with like-minded land specialists, our knowledge of the environment, the recreational attributes of the land, our personal relationships with rural land lenders and our dedication to our clientele describe TALB. Please visit our website www.TexasLandBrokers.org and feel confident your dealing with knowledgeable and professional land specialists.

When buying or selling rural real estate, trust your land to only the best The licensed members of the

Texas Allianceof Land Brokers

The Texas Alliance of Land Brokers offers knowledge of land markets, minerals, water and timber rights. We give specialized insight into the farm and ranch contract, assistance with obtaining financing, and understanding of political issues and government regulations related to rural land ownership. For more information and properties for sale, visit us online at TexasLandBrokers.org Professionals who specialize in rural land transactions.

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Your membership will help preserve and protect the water that is essential to the ranching way of life. To learn more, visit tscra.org.

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MARKET REPORT

OUR 2016 LAND MARKET OUTLOOK SURVEY The results are in from our 2016 Land Market Outlook survey. Nearly 1,000 land buyers, sellers, and brokers sent in their assessment of the current and future of land markets. Land buyers and sellers were in agreement for every question presented and remained optimistic as a whole towards the future of land markets. The questions included the assessment of land values, both near-term and long-term, land inventory on the market, and expected sales. These results have been broken out by state for more regional insight into buyer and seller differences. A full report will be available for download soon, this is just a partial result set. Thank you to all who participated!

Just more than half of land buyers and sellers predict an increase in land values over the next six months, with the southern states seeing the most confidence and overlap.

Buyers foresee an increase up through most of the Midwest, while land sellers are focused on the Southeast, Montana, Idaho, and Nevada. Several states (in pink) have been excluded from price increases either due to low numbers of respondents, or split results. It is important to note that some states may show both a projected increase and decrease in values because of different opinions from buyers and sellers.

The land values of hunting properties in Michigan have been basically flat for past three years. Have seen increase in farm ground, but would think that will be dropping soon due to lower commodity price.

-LAND BROKER FROM MICHIGAN

It was clear that the north was where price decreases in the next six months were most likely to take place, although land buyers and sellers didn’t agree on which states would see the decrease. Arizona was the lone standout in the southern US with both buyers and sellers agreeing on a near-term land value decrease, and Louisiana favored to see a decrease by buyers. This was the clearest line of distinction in the series, even with the separation between groups.

With lower grain and livestock prices, I look for set back in land values. I think this trend will continue for a year or so. Could be a good buying opportunity.

-LAND SELLER FROM KANSAS

Beans aren’t $18 anymore. Corn isn’t $8 anymore.

This causes people to sober up a little. The return isn’t what it was.

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A greater majority of respondents predicted an increase in prices over the next 12 months, up approximately three percent over the first six months. Although more scattered, there was much more of a consensus between land buyers and sellers on which states would see land price increases in the next 12 months. A full 16 states had price increase agreement between groups, while only 15 states were missing a majority vote or stalemated among respondents. Louisiana and Arizona were the only two in the south which didn’t foresee a 12 month price increase.

Sellers are still in the 2006–2007 mindset. Buyers are still looking for bargains. I see unrest in the land market, a wait and see for buyers.

-LAND BROKER FROM GEORGIA

While a larger majority of both buyers and sellers predict an increase in prices overall, a few states bucked that trend.

Louisiana, Arizona, and South Dakota all were predicted to have lower prices over 12 months by both buyers and sellers.

The rest were fragmented among various regions, split by land buyers and sellers, but found primarily in the Midwest and Northwest.

We have seen the best there is behind us. As incomes drop, potential buyers drop and values will follow.

-LAND BUYER FROM TEXAS

Land Markets in general, will stabilize, but where there are areas of more leverage the price of farm land will decrease. There are buyers to buy at lower prices.

-LAND BROKER FROM MONTANA

Both land buyers and sellers strongly agreed that there would be an increase of land on the market in the next 12 months with about two-thirds of respondents predicting an increase in market inventory. Since there were far fewer states showing a decrease, it made sense to highlight them for a clearer picture.

Only a few scattered states had more respondents predicting a decrease in of land properties over this year, with the only overlap for buyers and sellers landing in Arkansas.

Lower quality farms are beginning to come to the market.

Thus prices will appear to fall more than the real market.

-LAND BROKER FROM ARKANSAS

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MIXED RESULTS IN TEXAS LAND MARKETS WRITTEN BY CHARLES E. GILLILAND

RESEARCH ECONOMIST | REAL ESTATE CENTER | TEXAS A&M UNIVERSITY

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exas land prices continued the advance begun in 2010 rising to an all time high of $2,422 per acre statewide average through the third quarter of 2015. That expansion represented nearly a 3 percent increase over 2014 year-end prices. The 2015 price amounts to a more than 6 percent annual growth in prices since the 2009 low of $1,779 per acre. At 108 acres per transaction, the statewide market saw more small properties moving well with 4,093 sales through the third quarter. That volume of activity indicates that 2015 will likely be the most active land market since 2006.

Statewide rising prices disguised apparent weakness in some regional markets. Specifically, the Panhandle and High Plains region, facing anemic cotton and corn prices, has seen land prices retreat approximately 8 percent from 2014 levels. In addition, the South Texas area, dominated by activity in the Eagle Ford Shale oil play, saw prices decline approximately 4 percent through the third quarter. Sales in these weaker markets offset more robust results in other regions to soften the statewide increase.

Continuing turmoil in the petroleum industry abounds as the fall fades into winter. Producers and oil field service companies are increasingly convinced that industry output will continue to depress prices into the foreseeable future. A steady drumbeat of somber spending forecasts suggests more industry layoffs lie ahead. The coming months will reveal the accuracy of the forecasts and their impact on Texas land markets.

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TOP 100 SOLD August 16, 2015 through November 15, 2015 23. Trinity Country Real Estate

49. Davis Vernon Real Estate

75. Mike Dail Real Estate

24. RE/MAX Llano

50. Republic Ranches

76. Engel & Volkers

1,008± Acres | Jack County | Sold: 09/08/15 Days On Market: 1,460 | Sold Price: $2,900,000 754± Acres | Llano County | Sold: 11/15/15 Days On Market: 1,304 | Sold Price: $2,780,000

25. Reno Realty Group

399.4± Acres | Gillespie County | Sold: 11/09/15 Days On Market: 606 | Sold Price: $2,733,465

26. Jane Morgan Farm & Ranch Real Estate 1. Burgher-Ray Ranch Sales | Briggs 565± Acres | Hood County | Sold: 09/22/15 Freeman Sotheby’s International Realty Days On Market: 126 | Sold Price: $2,540,000 35,643± Acres | Donley County | Sold: 08/20/15 27. West Pole Partners, LLC Days On Market: 219 | Sold Price: $33,861,276

2. Dullnig Ranches/Kuper Sotheby’s

10,055± Acres | McMullen County | Sold: 09/04/15 Days On Market: 120 | Sold Price: $25,000,000

3. Republic Ranches

4,500± Acres | Llano County | Sold: 11/12/15 Days On Market: 289 | Sold Price: $19,350,000

4. Williams Trew

176.72± Acres | Parker County | Sold: 10/06/15 Days On Market: 624 | Sold Price: $12,000,000

5. Dullnig Ranches/Kuper Sotheby’s 1,252± Acres | Bell County | Sold: 11/02/15 Days On Market: 273 | Sold Price: $9,500,000

6. Ranch & Hunting Land Realty, LLC

5,069.22± Acres | Coleman County | Sold: 08/19/15 Days On Market: 133 | Sold Price: $7,310,000

7. Evans & Associates Real Estate

370± Acres | Gillespie County | Sold: 09/15/15 Days On Market: 230 | Sold Price: $6,700,000

8. DMTX Realty, Dave Murray, Broker 592± Acres | Hays County | Sold: 10/09/15 Days On Market: 119 | Sold Price: $6,364,000

9. RE/MAX Llano

841.74± Acres | Llano County | Sold: 10/02/15 Days On Market: 74 | Sold Price: $5,760,850

10. Culver/LANDTX, Inc

2,100± Acres | Menard County | Sold: 09/02/15 Days On Market: 120 | Sold Price: $4,126,500

11. Texas Ranches For Sale

1,353± Acres | Kerr County | Sold: 08/28/15 Days On Market: 263 | Sold Price: $3,780,000

12. Cross Bar Land Co

950± Acres | Gillespie County | Sold: 11/13/15 Days On Market: 210 | Sold Price: $3,700,000

13. Bart Jones Real Estate Sales

571.63± Acres | Bandera County | Sold: 08/21/15 Days On Market: 0 | Sold Price: $3,500,000

14. Anders Realty

442± Acres | Blanco County | Sold: 11/04/15 Days On Market: 667 | Sold Price: $3,500,000

15. Superior Farm & Ranch Realty

442± Acres | Blanco County | Sold: 11/04/15 Days On Market: 169 | Sold Price: $3,495,000

16. Superior Farm & Ranch Realty

673± Acres | Williamson County | Sold: 10/21/15 Days On Market: 487 | Sold Price: $3,493,909

265.9± Acres | Comal County | Sold: 09/10/15 Days On Market: 119 | Sold Price: $2,350,000

28. Mystic Hills Realty

159± Acres | Kerr County | Sold: 11/12/15 Days On Market: 328 | Sold Price: $2,350,000

29. Davis Vernon Real Estate

2,560± Acres | Childress County | Sold: 10/08/15 Days On Market: 268 | Sold Price: $2,280,566

30. Precision Ranch Sales

1,754± Acres | Kinney County | Sold: 09/25/15 Days On Market: 731 | Sold Price: $2,280,200

31. Bosque Real Estate, Inc

544.35± Acres | Hill County | Sold: 10/20/15 Days On Market: 74 | Sold Price: $2,250,000

32. Culver/LANDTX, Inc

1,030± Acres | Menard County | Sold: 09/23/15 Days On Market: 96 | Sold Price: $2,209,414

33. Real Estate Advisory Team

412.46± Acres | Gillespie County | Sold: 10/30/15 Days On Market: 51 | Sold Price: $2,186,038

34. Dullnig Ranches/Kuper Sotheby’s 1,086.4± Acres | Jim Wells County | Sold: 10/20/15 Days On Market: 2,779 | Sold Price: $2,166,570

35. Texas Farm & Ranch Realty

632.97± Acres | Falls County | Sold: 09/04/15 Days On Market: 88 | Sold Price: $2,144,924

36. Dave Perry-Miller Real Estate

839.96± Acres | Erath County | Sold: 10/30/15 Days On Market: 98 | Sold Price: $2,135,000

37. Haby Realty

534± Acres | Medina County | Sold: 08/24/15 Days On Market: 241 | Sold Price: $2,109,342

38. Precision Ranch Sales

1,337± Acres | Kinney County | Sold: 10/23/15 Days On Market: 872 | Sold Price: $2,050,000

39. Texas Ranches For Sale

1,010± Acres | Duval County | Sold: 09/24/15 Days On Market: 141 | Sold Price: $2,000,000

40. Larry Behrens Real Estate

1,760± Acres | Irion County | Sold: 09/09/15 Days On Market: 83 | Sold Price: $1,936,000

41. Essex Properties

366± Acres | Gonzales County | Sold: 08/28/15 Days On Market: 35 | Sold Price: $1,910,000

42. Cornerstone Brokerage, LLC

179.06± Acres | Smith County | Sold: 10/23/15 Days On Market: 261 | Sold Price: $1,908,361

17. Trip duPerier, The Texas Land Man LLC 43. Texas Ranches For Sale 767± Acres | Zavala County | Sold: 11/03/15 Days On Market: 741 | Sold Price: $3,450,000

602± Acres | McCulloch County | Sold: 09/25/15 Days On Market: 224 | Sold Price: $1,900,000

1,500± Acres | Erath County | Sold: 10/21/15 Days On Market: 923 | Sold Price: $3,300,000

226± Acres | Gillespie County | Sold: 10/22/15 Days On Market: 22 | Sold Price: $1,808,000

18. Briggs Freeman Sotheby’s Int’l Realty 19. Riley-McLean Land

44. Anders Realty

45. Busch Family Limited Partnership

518.53± Acres | Burnet County | Sold: 08/17/15 Days On Market: 167 | Sold Price: $3,285,255

1,546.57± Acres | Sutton County | Sold: 10/30/15 Days On Market: 128 | Sold Price: $1,795,000

920± Acres | Milam County | Sold: 09/21/15 Days On Market: 174 | Sold Price: $3,200,000

507± Acres | Milam County | Sold: 09/15/15 Days On Market: 543 | Sold Price: $1,750,000

20. Cunningham Real Estate

21. Dullnig Ranches/Kuper Sotheby’s 300± Acres | Guadalupe County | Sold: 11/06/15 Days On Market: 231 | Sold Price: $2,975,000

22. Tom W. Davis, Ranch Broker

1,205± Acres | Live Oak County | Sold: 09/29/15 Days On Market: 111 | Sold Price: $2,955,000

46. Thweatt Real Estate

47. Newland Real Estate

105± Acres | Denton County | Sold: 08/31/15 Days On Market: 923 | Sold Price: $1,717,403

48. Texas Ranches For Sale

127± Acres | Kendall County | Sold: 10/30/15 Days On Market: 273 | Sold Price: $1,700,000

1,841± Acres | Childress County | Sold: 10/08/15 Days On Market: 266 | Sold Price: $1,633,273 929± Acres | Brown County | Sold: 08/28/15 Days On Market: 368 | Sold Price: $1,630,076

809± Acres | Schleicher County | Sold: 10/01/15 Days On Market: 150 | Sold Price: $1,270,000 22± Acres | Comal County | Sold: 11/11/15 Days On Market: 1,393 | Sold Price: $1,269,000

51. Anders Realty

77. Briggs Freeman Sotheby’s Int’l

165± Acres | Blanco County | Sold: 10/21/15 Days On Market: 50 | Sold Price: $1,600,000

52. Dullnig Ranches/Kuper Sotheby’s 544± Acres | Frio County | Sold: 10/29/15 Days On Market: 611 | Sold Price: $1,600,000

53. Trinity Liveoak Real Estate, LLC 545.11± Acres | Eastland County | Sold: 11/06/15 Days On Market: 304 | Sold Price: $1,575,000

54. GLW Properties

429.42± Acres | Lavaca County | Sold: 10/08/15 Days On Market: 146 | Sold Price: $1,550,000

55. La Gloria Land Company

618± Acres | Hopkins County | Sold: 09/29/15 Days On Market: 1,946 | Sold Price: $1,250,000

78. Burks Real Estate

163.57± Acres | Coryell County | Sold: 11/10/15 Days On Market: 67 | Sold Price: $1,250,000

79. Phyllis Browning Land & Ranch Co 153.94± Acres | Bastrop County | Sold: 09/01/15 Days On Market: 862 | Sold Price: $1,231,496

80. Republic Ranches

159± Acres | Lee County | Sold: 09/10/15 Days On Market: 80 | Sold Price: $1,205,996

81. Alliance Realty & Auction

259± Acres | Gillespie County | Sold: 09/09/15 Days On Market: 224 | Sold Price: $1,525,000

640± Acres | Lamar County | Sold: 09/02/15 Days On Market: 121 | Sold Price: $1,200,000

126.5± Acres | Burleson County | Sold: 11/06/15 Days On Market: 53 | Sold Price: $1,500,000

0.67± Acres | Comal County | Sold: 08/17/15 Days On Market: 329 | Sold Price: $1,200,000

33± Acres | Hays County | Sold: 11/11/15 Days On Market: 1,593 | Sold Price: $1,490,000

120± Acres | Llano County | Sold: 10/19/15 Days On Market: 362 | Sold Price: $1,200,000

56. Texas Land Group 57. Engel & Volkers

58. Engel & Volkers

1± Acres | Travis County | Sold: 11/11/15 Days On Market: 1,393 | Sold Price: $1,490,000

59. Deitra Robertson Real Estate, Inc 108± Acres | Waller County | Sold: 10/01/15 Days On Market: 966 | Sold Price: $1,440,000

60. Capitol Ranch Real Estate

55.8± Acres | Washington County | Sold: 09/17/15 Days On Market: 171 | Sold Price: $1,400,000

61. Bennett & Associates

2,240± Acres | Andrews County | Sold: 11/15/15 Days On Market: 35 | Sold Price: $1,400,000

62. Lee, Lee & Puckitt Associates, Inc 700.53± Acres | Schleicher County | Sold: 09/15/15 Days On Market: 209 | Sold Price: $1,350,000

82. Kuper Sotheby’s International Realty

83. Anders Realty

84. Phyllis Browning Land & Ranch Co 202.2± Acres | Williamson County | Sold: 10/12/15 Days On Market: 334 | Sold Price: $1,157,007

85. Bill Johnson & Assoc. Real Estate Co 144.29± Acres | Austin County | Sold: 09/29/15 Days On Market: 232 | Sold Price: $1,154,320

86. REATA RANCH REALTY, LLC

5.01± Acres | Gillespie County | Sold: 09/29/15 Days On Market: 172 | Sold Price: $1,150,000

87. Weichert REALTORS, Team Realty 223± Acres | Parker County | Sold: 10/08/15 Days On Market: 764 | Sold Price: $1,148,450

88. Lehmberg Realty

280± Acres | Llano County | Sold: 09/21/15 Days On Market: 111 | Sold Price: $1,144,954

63. Bobby Norris Farm & Ranch Realty LLC 89. Padgett Real Estate 11.74± Acres | Tarrant County | Sold: 10/27/15 Days On Market: 482 | Sold Price: $1,350,000

172± Acres | Gillespie County | Sold: 08/31/15 Days On Market: 83 | Sold Price: $1,127,412

0.42± Acres | Henderson County | Sold: 10/06/15 Days On Market: 146 | Sold Price: $1,325,000

344± Acres | Coryell County | Sold: 09/28/15 Days On Market: 184 | Sold Price: $1,102,800

55.9± Acres | Parker County | Sold: 08/31/15 Days On Market: 60 | Sold Price: $1,320,000

131.38± Acres | Walker County | Sold: 08/21/15 Days On Market: 59 | Sold Price: $1,100,000

64. Steve Grant Real Estate 65. Parker County Realty

90. Riverplace Realty

91. Markham Realty, Inc

66. John Petty Realtors

92. Dullnig Ranches/Kuper Sotheby’s

67. Real Living Farm and Ranch

93. Engel & Volkers

200± Acres | Matagorda County | Sold: 11/10/15 Days On Market: 190 | Sold Price: $1,300,000 169.78± Acres | Gonzales County | Sold: 09/24/15 Days On Market: 66 | Sold Price: $1,300,000

68. Engel & Volkers

33.4± Acres | Travis County | Sold: 11/11/15 Days On Market: 1,393 | Sold Price: $1,299,000

69. South Central Real Estate

6.35± Acres | Fayette County | Sold: 10/09/15 Days On Market: 800 | Sold Price: $1,297,181

28± Acres | Kerr County | Sold: 09/14/15 Days On Market: 279 | Sold Price: $1,100,000

20± Acres | Burnet County | Sold: 11/11/15 Days On Market: 1,593 | Sold Price: $1,080,000

94. Brown Realty Co

398.66± Acres | McCulloch County | Sold: 11/12/15 Days On Market: 205 | Sold Price: $1,077,192

95. Carell Freeman

398.66± Acres | McCulloch County | Sold: 11/11/15 Days On Market: 125 | Sold Price: $1,077,092

70. Engel & Volkers

96. Texas Ranch Depot

49.49± Acres | Comal County | Sold: 11/11/15 Days On Market: 1,591 | Sold Price: $1,295,000

215± Acres | Bastrop County | Sold: 10/22/15 Days On Market: 958 | Sold Price: $1,075,000

70± Acres | Kendall County | Sold: 09/04/15 Days On Market: 158 | Sold Price: $1,275,660

263.52± Acres | Brazoria County | Sold: 09/10/15 Days On Market: 154 | Sold Price: $1,070,000

71. Dullnig Ranches/Kuper Sotheby’s 72. Engel & Volkers

1± Acres | Travis County | Sold: 11/11/15 Days On Market: 1,393 | Sold Price: $1,275,000

73. Engel & Volkers

2± Acres | Travis County | Sold: 11/11/15 Days On Market: 1,393 | Sold Price: $1,275,000

74. Burks Real Estate

487.3± Acres | Mills County | Sold: 09/18/15 Days On Market: 104 | Sold Price: $1,273,061

97. Harrison Realtors

98. Ranch Investments

427± Acres | Lampasas County | Sold: 08/24/15 Days On Market: 333 | Sold Price: $1,067,500

99. Gann Medford Real Estate, Inc

376± Acres | Cherokee County | Sold: 10/09/15 Days On Market: 190 | Sold Price: $1,050,057

100. RE/MAX Llano

170± Acres | Llano County | Sold: 08/21/15 Days On Market: 81 | Sold Price: $1,041,600

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Rosita Creek Ranch 7,200± ACRES | MAVERICK COUNTY

Llano County Ranch 180± ACRES | LLANO COUNTY

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This 7,200-acre ranch is a true sportsmen’s paradise. With four lakes, the largest being over 250 acres, this high-fenced ranch has an abundance of surface water. Rosita Creek and its tributaries meander through the ranch providing water to lakes, stock tanks and use by wildlife. Improvements include an 8,000-square-foot lodge, tennis court, 7,000-foot paved runway, hangar, office, hunter’s house, paved roads and city water.

Located in the highly desirable Camp Verde area, this 291± acres offers end- of-the-road privacy, and an updated four-bedroom, four and two half-bath home sits hillside overlooking two spring-fed lakes.

The entire ranch is high-fenced containing both native and exotic wildlife. The ranch offers excellent large acreage neighbors in a very private and quiet setting.

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This spectacular 1,675-acre ranch offers about one mile of spring-fed Commissioners Creek meandering east to west through the property. The creek has been dammed to create a 1.6-acre lake, providing year-round recreation. Diverse Hill Country habitat and topography provides unlimited uses and breathtaking views. Improvements include two homes, four barns, walk-in cooler, two water wells and several earthen stock tanks.

Twin Coves Ranch 850± ACRES | CAMP COUNTY

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Rancho Nina 1,675± ACRES | BANDERA COUNTY

Don’t miss this truly rare opportunity to own 850 acres of wooded, diverse ranch property with five miles of shoreline along Lake Bob Sandlin. Just 10 minutes south of Mount Pleasant, this property proposes endless opportunities as a personal recreational ranch or waterfront development. The lake front is comprised of two large coves providing excellent fishing and the tranquility of being remote. The land and its gentle rolling topography is filled with a plethora of hardwoods and pine trees creating a natural canvas to be sculpted to create your own vision. Improvements include a waterfront brick home, hunter’s cabin and four stock fishing ponds.

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Turkey Knob Ranch 645± ACRES | KENDALL COUNTY

Verde Creek Ranch 287± ACRES | KERR COUNTY

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This 645-acre ranch has unique building sites with 20-mile views across the Hill Country landscape.

Turkey Knob also has three lakes and the headwaters of a major creek system. Offers an excellent road system which navigates one through majestic hills and valleys. Located near city conveniences but very private and secluded, this is an outstanding opportunity to own a piece of the Hill Countries best!

This high-fenced 287 acres offers a diversity of landscape and topography, pulling together all unique characteristics of the Hill Country. Live water is plentiful via both sides of the cypress-lined Verde Creek and Mico Creek. The picturesque fertile bottomland is planted in coastal Bermuda.

The ranch is easily accessed by Highway 173 frontage and Verde Creek Road.

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Lake Creek Ranch

Lake View Ranch

5,753± ACRES | UVALDE COUNTY

200± ACRES | KERR COUNTY

This high-fenced Hill Country ranch boasts two miles of Lake Creek with three lakes. Improvements include a spacious lodge, guest house, livestock barns and a 5,300-foot paved runway with two hangars. Come enjoy the stunning views of the hills and fertile valleys.

200± acre ranch with a variety of terrain including rolling hills, deep canyons and gentle pastures. The property is perimeter high-fenced and has paved county road frontage. The four-bedroom home overlooks a gorgeous springfed lake. Hunt, fish and relax 15 minutes from town.

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Prison Canyon Ranch 396± ACRES | KERR COUNTY

The 396-acre Prison Canyon Ranch is located in the heart of Camp Verde, Texas. Water abounds on this spectacular Hill Country ranch. The cypress-lined Verde Creek flows through the north side of the ranch for three-quarters of a mile and a 24-acre spring-fed lake, with boat house, offer year-round recreation. Improvements include a three-bedroom and four-bedroom home, two-story trophy house and two equipment barns. The ranch is high-fenced on three sides and includes a pecan orchard and coastal Bermuda pasture.

Guadalupe River Ranch

Red Bluff Creek Ranch

300± ACRES | KERR COUNTY

308± ACRES | BANDERA COUNTY

Paved roads through this 300-acre ranch deliver convenient year-round access to the many improvements. The large main home sits perched on a hillside overlooking the property. Other improvements include a foreman’s home, horse barn, hay barns, equipment barns and 160 acres of coastal Bermuda pastures.

With nearly one-half mile of cypress-lined Guadalupe River, recreational opportunities are endless.

This 308-acre ranch offers both sides of Red Bluff Creek which passes through the middle of the property. The banks of the creek have been cleaned up, offering excellent access to the turquoise waters. Good pastures with excellent soil give the ranch the potential to become an outstanding horse property. This ranch is in a great location just 20 minutes to San Antonio or Boerne.

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One hour from San Antonio and Austin, this beautiful hidden 234-acre ranch is surrounded by 4,000 acres of virgin forest. Gently rolling tree-studded meadows plus hilltop views are both on this great ranch. This is an amazing opportunity to acquire a very large and wild piece of Texas, within the red hot triangle of Austin, Houston and San Antonio.

String Prairie Ranch 234± ACRES | BASTROP COUNTY

Palmer Creek Ranch

Turtle Creek Ranch

291± ACRES | KERR COUNTY

552± ACRES | KERR COUNTY

Located in the highly desirable Camp Verde area, this 291± acres offers endof-the-road privacy, an updated four-bedroom, four and two half-bath home sits hillside overlooking two spring-fed lakes. The entire ranch is high-fenced containing both native and exotic wildlife. The ranch offers excellent large acreage neighbors in a very private and quiet setting.

Turtle Creek Ranch, located just three miles north of Camp Verde, Texas, consists of 552 acres. The stunning Turtle Creek meanders across the north side of the property. The majority of the ranch is totally high-fenced.

Improvements include a stone home with pool and outdoor entertainment area, two additional homes and barns. The ranch is easily accessed by Highway 173 frontage and Lower Turtle Creek Road.

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Crystal Falls 927± ACRES | GILLESPIE COUNTY

This 927-acre property offers breathtaking views, good soils for improved grasses and incredible live water. Two live creeks flow through the ranch offering true, year-round water. Conveniently located near Fredericksburg, Texas, this ranch is abundant with native wildlife.

Guadalupe River Retreat 10± ACRES | KERR COUNTY

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Gorgeous 10-acre compound just outside of Hunt, Texas with 550 feet of the Guadalupe River. Numerous improvements, including a huge pool and tennis courts. The property fronts a paved highway and has paved roads accessing the buildings. The property could accommodate 50-plus guests comfortably. This property is quiet, peaceful and gorgeous. Perfect for a small resort, family compound or retreat center.

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Rio Ranchito 405± ACRES | KERR COUNTY

Naked Tree Ranch 129.5± ACRES | KERR COUNTY

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This 405-acre ranch has over a mile of the headwaters of the Guadalupe River along with Flat Rock Creek. The ranch has some of the first set of springs that start the Guadalupe River on its way to the ocean. Gorgeous water! The incredible improvements total over 16,000 square feet. This peaceful setting is located near the famous camps of Hunt such as Waldemar, Camp Stewart, Camp Honey Creek and MO Ranch.

Nestled amid the dramatic hills of the Medina area are 129.5 acres of hiking, fishing, breathtaking views and the solitude that only nature can provide. The main home is a 2,620-square-foot, triple-wide modular home that is seven years old.

The ranch also has a 2,020-square-foot metal barn on slab with two large roll doors. Native and exotic game frequents the ranch and find nourishment in the two spring-fed ponds.

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Maple Springs Ranch 1,350± ACRES | BANDERA COUNTY

Maple Springs Ranch is located next door to the famous Lost Maples State Park. The ranch has about 1,350 acres with 13 canyons and two strong, spring-fed lakes. Improvements include a beautiful two-story custom rock home, with about 8,000 square feet of living space, two covered patios that lead out to the swimming pool and a walkway that leads down to the lake and canoe area. This ranch is secluded and secure and offers a lot of diversity with swimming, fishing, hiking, bird watching, hunting, and for the more adventurous minded, exploration of caves and Indian mounds.

Hidden Springs Hideaway 40± ACRES | KERR COUNTY

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Built with energy saving technology in mind, this 40-acre property features an exceptional main home and guest quarters with 2,574 square feet of living space, a barn, and creek frontage. The property has a creek that traverses one corner for about 350 feet. The creek has a dam creating a great little fishing area. It is approximately eight feet deep, very clear, spring-fed and really pretty. If you want a home with sweeping views, over-the-top energy efficiency, on a gorgeous piece of land with live water, look no further.

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Hunt Game Ranch 356± ACRES | KERR COUNTY

Waelder Ranch

The 356-acre ranch has several springs throughout the ranch which provides ample water for game. Dry Creek runs throughout the ranch for one mile and is mostly as wet weather creek but holds pockets of water throughout. In 2011 a custom three-bedroom, two-bath house with standing seam roof was constructed to provide very comfortable accommodations. Approximately one-fourth of the ranch has been cleared of cedar and the remainder of the ranch provides excellent cover for the whitetail, red stag, black buck, axis and turkey.

500± ACRES | BASTROP COUNTY

Located just 20 minutes from Bucc-ee’s off Interstate 10 towards Houston, one hour from San Antonio, 45 minutes to Austin and one-anda-half hours to Houston. The 500-acre ranch is high-fenced with one water well, one surface tank and a wet weather creek. The property has an abundance of hardwoods with cleared meadows. Native and exotic wildlife flourish in this pristine environment.

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Crystal Springs Ranch

300± ACRES | BANDERA COUNTY

This 300-acre property borders the Medina River for about a third of a mile. The river offers easy access to Medina Lake. Spires Creek runs through the middle of the ranch going east to west and drains into the river. This creek has many springs and seeps with crystal-clear pools of water. There are beautiful hardwood canopies with clearings that have a park-like setting. The property has an old rock home with one water well and storage. The ranches location could allow for future development.

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Skyline Ranch 63± ACRES | HAYS COUNTY

Skyline Ranch is the ideal ranch for those looking for a great location with an outstanding view, such as the high-hilltop views overlooking the pastures on your own ranch and beyond. The entire Wimberley valley is at your fingertips, all the way to the Devil’s Backbone. The oak covered hilltops offer a multitude of beautiful building sites on this 63 acres.

Windrose Ranch Medina River Ranch

624± ACRES | BANDERA COUNTY

This 624-acre ranch has a mile of Medina River and one of the oldest native pecan bottoms in Texas. There is also a unique log cabin and barn, great views, turkey, whitetail, axis and much more.

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2,124± ACRES | ZAVALA COUNTY

Turnkey big deer ranch with minerals! This property is one of the few trophy ranches left with minerals. This 2,124-acre ranch currently runs some livestock, has had 10 years of deer management with a MLD level three permit, and a quail management program. There is ample water throughout the ranch that includes a Carrizo irrigation well, four water wells, 10-plus miles of irrigation lines, six fully irrigated tanks and multiple water troughs.

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Rock Cliff Ranch 25± ACRES | BANDERA COUNTY

4 Springs Ranch

A spectacular Hill Country home sitting on the banks of a pristine semi-private lake. This Hill Country jewel is located just minutes from Kerrville and Bandera. The property consists of 25± acres which share access to large private lake. The large custom home has too many details to list! All the modern needs and desires have been put into this home offering breathtaking view of the lake and surrounding Hill Country.

1,100± ACRES | KIMBLE COUNTY

4 Springs Ranch is the perfect opportunity for anyone looking to build their dream ranch without having to pay for someone else’s improvements. The 1,100-acre ranch is partially low-fenced and partially high-fenced. There is a small area of the ranch with a mobile home, implement shed and steel pens, and is otherwise in pristine condition. Four different springs provide a water source for livestock and game, with the possibility for excavation into small lakes. The hilltops offer some of the finest sweeping views imaginable of the large valleys with rolling grass fields.

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Adams River Ranch

167± ACRES | LAMPASAS COUNTY

167 acres that has been in the same family since 1845! The southern end of the property has approximately one-quarter mile of Colorado River Frontage. Half of the frontage consists of shallow gravel bank rapids and the other half is deep, rope swinging, swimming and catfishing. The ranch has a 20x40, one-room cabin with small bath and fireplace. Well priced, perfect location, a lot of amenities, income potential. What are you waiting for?

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Kramer Road Ranch 138± ACRES | GILLESPIE COUNTY | PROPERTY ID: 1702451 This terrific recreational property boasts expansive sunset views as well as a seasonal creek that adds diversity and attracts wildlife. Along with the convenience of being approximately two miles outside of town, the property also has paved county road frontage.

Klein Branch Creek Ranch 520± ACRES | GILLESPIE COUNTY | PROPERTY ID: 1702408 From the park-like setting and rolling terrain, to the abundance of both native and exotic wildlife, this ranch is ready to be enjoyed today. It features a two-bedroom, two-bath Hill Country cottage with a creek-front setting and approximately 3,000 feet of both sides of the spring-fed Klein Branch Creek.

Come see this turnkey property soon.

Walking Three Ranch 6,200± ACRES | COLEMAN COUNTY | PROPERTY ID: 2879612 This very scenic ranch has hills creating distant views in every direction. Deep rugged draws lined with live oak, post oak and elms are scattered throughout the ranch with over two miles of Lake Coleman frontage. In addition, there are 17 surface tanks ensuring a good water supply for livestock and wildlife. This, plus the excellent cover creates an outdoorsman’s paradise.

Loyal Valley Ranch 305± ACRES | MASON COUNTY | PROPERTY ID: 2696031 Beautiful Hill Country ranch with big views from the top of Meusebach Mountain.

Great cover consisting of bee-brush, catclaw, shin oak, live oak, persimmon and mesquite creates a hunter’s paradise. The pastures with improved grasses could be great for livestock as well. Call for your private showing.

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Johnson Creek Retreat 13± ACRES | KERR COUNTY 300± feet of Johnson Creek with a beautiful new one-bedroom, one-and-ahalf-bath home built with high-end finishes throughout. The home has a large great room, with an open kitchen looking into the great room. Cabinets are knotty alder, granite counter tops and bar, stainless appliances, front and back porch with stunning views off the back porch. There are large windows throughout the house, new water system which includes a water storage tank, well house, an old windmill, the frame of a 1929 rock homestead, and a gated entry.

Bella Vista 60± ACRES | GILLESPIE COUNTY | PROPERTY ID: 2267269 With Hill Country vistas and gently rolling landscape, this is a prize property with horse friendly terrain and people friendly improvements. The threebedroom, three-bath native stone home has a standing seam metal roof, and there is a charming two-bedroom, two-bath guest cottage. Two gorgeous lakes along with three wells add to this beautiful ranch just 20 minutes from Fredericksburg. Additional acreage available.

Cedar Wood 21± ACRES | KERR COUNTY Enjoy the incredible views from this private, end of the road and top of the hill estate. Newly landscaped and turnkey, this Hill Country home has three bedrooms and three baths, an office, and a three-car, climate controlled carport with attached shop. The formal dining room and attached wet bar open up to the vaulted ceiling great room with ample windows and one of the home’s two fireplaces. The second fireplace is in the master suite, which also has a spacious bathroom with both tub and shower and a large walk-in closet. Come see this property soon and catch a sunset off the brand new upstairs deck.

Hidden Hills Estate 30± ACRES | KERR COUNTY Located in the highly desirably Camp Verde area, this gorgeous threebedroom, three-bath Mediterranean/Tuscan-style home on a hillside overlooks thousands of acres of Texas Hill Country. The home was built with every room taking advantage of the incredible views. The entrance leads into the formal living room with a huge picture window that looks out forever.

From the three fireplaces, open-concept and expansive kitchen, two halfbaths, three-car garage with two-bedroom, one-bath guest apartment, to the custom skylight over the formal dining room and Talavera sinks and tile, this home lacks no details and is a must see.

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Willow Springs 327Âą ACRES | BANDERA COUNTY | PROPERTY ID: 2638313 Hidden away just minutes from FM 337, east of Vanderpool, Silver Creek Canyon Ranch is truly one of the most beautiful and unique live water ranches available in today's market. The ranch offers Willow Springs which feeds over one-half mile of both sides of a crystal clear springfed creek, beautiful waterfalls, rapids, relaxing shallow pools and an absolutely fantastic five-acre lake. This hidden jewel offers one of the most incredible settings anywhere in the Texas Hill Country with a charming cowboy-style hacienda situated right along the banks of the fabulous spring-fed lake, guest houses, cabin and floating dock. Call Morris (210) 415-9850. Price: $1,999,000

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Whitetail Springs Ranch 304± ACRES | BANDERA COUNTY | PROPERTY ID: 2696961 Located just minutes north of Utopia, Whitetail Springs Ranch is truly one of the most unique live water properties available in the Texas Hill Country. The ranch features over 2,000 feet of beautiful cypress-lined Sabinal River with a landmark dam creating a fabulous lake, a deep spring-fed creek, manicured park-like area and over one mile of highway frontage. Other features include a two-story ranchstyle main home, foreman's house, rental cabin, six-bay garage, equipment barn with apartment, incredible rock landscaping with huge outdoor patios and entertainment areas, two fishing lakes, breathtaking views of the surrounding valley, dozens of fabulous home sites and the ranch is loaded with native game.

Call Morris (210) 415-9850. Owner Financing Available! Price: $3,950,000

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Casparis Ranch 284± ACRES | BANDERA COUNTY | PROPERTY ID: 2871566 This incredible new listing boasts over 2,300 feet of the beautiful Sabinal River and is only minutes from Lost Maples State Park. The ranch offers giant oak trees throughout most of the ranch, fabulous building sites under the oak trees along the Sabinal River and hilltops offering gorgeous views of the Canyon. Wildlife includes whitetail, turkey, axis and hogs. This is truly a rare opportunity to purchase an fantastic live water ranch in the beautiful Texas Hill Country. Call Scott (830) 591–9509 or Morris (210) 415–9850.

Cannan Ranch 436± ACRES | BANDERA COUNTY | PROPERTY ID: 2871057 This incredible new listing is located right in between Utopia and Vanderpool and just a few miles from Lost Maples State Park. This exceptional ranch offers great Sabinal River bottomland with large pecan, oak and elm trees. Wet weather Lone Hollow Creek traverses the property with great lake building sites, three fertile fields under cultivation and one large pivot. This ranch is ideal for a livestock operation or an unbelievable hunting ranch with a lot of axis, whitetail, turkeys, hogs and doves. Whether you want a combination ranch or just a pure hunting paradise you will not find a finer ranch on the market. This is a very rare opportunity to own a ranch of this size and caliber in the Utopia—Sabinal Canyon—area! Call Scott (830) 591–9509 or Morris (210) 415–9850. Price: $1,999,000 144

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T-Bar Ranch 327± ACRES | BANDERA COUNTY | PROPERTY ID: 2059549 Located at English Crossing on the beautiful Medina River, this fabulous new live water ranch offers 2,300± feet of fabulous Medina River frontage with crystal clear deep water, steep high bluffs and incredible rock formations. Along the ridge of the high bluff are some of the most incredible home sites anywhere in Bandera County and the views are breathtaking. The ranch features a beautifully manicured park-like area along the river shaded by towering pecan, oaks and cedar elms. The ranch also offers paved road frontage, foreman's house, guest cabin, excellent water well, great hunting with large population of native game, large healthy oaks and multiple food plots. Call Morris (210) 415-9850. $3,499,000

Lampasas River Ranch 230± ACRES | BURNET COUNTY | PROPERTY ID: 2611391 Located just south of Copperas Cove and less than an hour to Austin, this rare find offers three-quarters of a mile of fabulous Lampasas River, historic limestone home, cabin, fishing camp, barn and multiple mete loops. The ranch is gently sloping with hardwood-lined hillsides that provide fabulous views, offers a small spring-fed pond, a mix of heavy cover and open fields loaded with game. Call Morris (210) 415-9850. Price: $1,895,000

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Shaw Ranch 700± ACRES | UVALDE COUNTY | PROPERTY ID: 2847661 One of the most unique ranches in Uvalde County, the Shaw Ranch is situated along the bank of the west prong of the Nueces River and offers a rare opportunity to own a fabulous hunting and recreational ranch at a great price. The ranch is a nice mixture of Hill Country and South Texas and offers over one-and-a-half miles of the west prong of the Nueces River, ancient Indian campgrounds, live spring, all low-fencing, three homes, water well, great tree cover, exceptional brush diversity, hills, mesquite flats and plenty of open country for cultivation. Call Morris (210) 415-9850. Price: $1,400,000

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Tremont Ranch 200± ACRES | MEDINA COUNTY | PROPERTY ID: 2550942 The ranch is located 18 miles north of Hondo and offers and incredible limestone home situated on top of the world with fantastic 360-degree views for miles. The ranch also offers a huge rock patio with a gas fire ring, rock pavilion with cooking area and bar, hot tub, two-car garage with shop, paved roads, electric entry gate, great well and fantastic hunting. Call Morris (210) 415-9850. Price: $1,950,000 146

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Noonan Ranch 440± ACRES | MEDINA COUNTY PROPERTY ID: 2059607 This fantastic new hunting/cattle ranch is located just south of Highway 90 and offers a very unique mix of South Texas along with the terrain and feel of a Hill Country property. The deer habitat is exceptional with an excellent combination of light to heavy brush mixed with huge oaks, elms and mesquites, making it great for hunting. The ranch offers four ponds, several other excellent pond and lake sites, several areas that may be cultivated for food plots, deep soils and home sites with fantastic views. Call Morris (210) 415-9850. Price: $1,870,000

Hustede Ranch 214± ACRES | MEDINA COUNTY PROPERTY ID: 1749504 This 215-acre turnkey ranch is located 10± miles north of D'Hanis off FM 1796 in the highly desirable transition area. The ranch offers an exceptionally planned and constructed 3,000± square-foot home, well constructed 2,400-square-foot shop, two-car garage/shop, covered barbecue pavilion, small hunter's cabin and a shared Edwards Well. The highly usable ranch is low-fenced on three sides, offers areas of deep soils for food plots, a gently rolling terrain, medium to heavy cover, large oaks and an abundance of whitetail, turkey and wild hogs. Call Morris (210) 415-9850.

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Deep Creek Ranch 370± ACRES | MEDINA COUNTY | PROPERTY ID: 2302049 Located on Country Road 371 just minutes west of San Antonio this new listing offers the very best of the country mixed with the big city conveniences. The ranch offers paved frontage, a unique mix of hills and valleys, fabulous views, deep fertile soil, multiple ponds, huge oak and cedar elms, rural water and is loaded with game. Best investment ranch in the area. Call Morris (210) 415-9850.

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Concan Ranch 425± ACRES | UVALDE COUNTY | PROPERTY ID: 177099 This ranch is possibly the best investment in the Hill Country with three-quarters of a mile of Highway 83 frontage just minutes from the Frio River. The ranch offers great hunting, good road systems, privacy, deep wide canyons, multiple valleys, and fantastic home sites. A developers dream. Call Morris (210) 415-9850.

Price: $1,551,250

Pinion Pine Ranch 2,880± ACRES | EDWARDS COUNTY | PROPERTY ID: 1188314 Located on the western Edwards County line, this is one of the best ranches along the plateau. Featuring deep canyons, limestone bluffs, deep fertile valleys, game-fencing, excellent water piped around the ranch and a good road system. The ranch is loaded with whitetail, blackbuck, turkey, axis, fallow, aoudad and mouflon. Call Cleveland (210) 422-8722 or Morris (210) 415-9850. Price: $750 per acre 148

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Yochum Ranch 458± ACRES | BANDERA COUNTY PROPERTY ID: 1600901 This unique new listing offers a perfect mix of hardwood-lined hills and wide fertile valleys in one of the prettiest areas of the Hill Country, Seco Valley. Features incredible views, multiple hills and canyons, large ponds, very unique pool supplied by springs, large neighbors, private access, loads of wildlife and great hunting. Call Morris (210) 415-9850. Price: $1,717,500

Edwards County Ranch 647± ACRES | EDWARDS COUNTY | PROPERTY ID: 1707571 647± acres located about 30 minutes north of Brackettville. This unique ranch is the old headquarters for the Winters Ranch with the bunk house, cook house, work shop, etc., still in use. You can even see where the blacksmith shop was! The ranch also offers a new 2,000-square-foot, three-bedroom, two-bath house with 15x40 covered porches in front and back of the house. Also next to the house is a 50x50 Pila/swimming pool.

The ranch comes fully furnished with furniture, ice machine, tools, 4x4 blazer, CJ-5 jeep, Kawasaki mule, 30 HP tractor, new riding lawn mower plus much more! There is a Edwards water well at the headquarters that feeds water to over seven Pila's (above ground water storage) across the ranch. This insures that the wildlife/livestock have water in every part of the ranch. The ranch joins the 6,500-plus acre Kickapoo Cavern State Park which makes the abundant wildlife on this ranch second to none and includes: axis, black buck, whitetail, turkey, hogs and doves. With seven feed station with blinds and water all over the ranch makes this a game paradise. The terrain is rolling hills to nice bottoms Indian mounds and nice oak and pinion pines throughout the ranch. Do not let this very unique ranch pass you by. Call Scott (830) 591–9509.

Pumpville Ranch 8,600± ACRES | VAL VERDE COUNTY PROPERTY ID: 2522054 8,600± acres located about 11 miles north of Highway 90 and about seven miles north of Pumpville on Country Road 1865 right on the Terrell-Val Verde County line. This unique ranch offers great hunting with abundant blue quail, whitetail, and mule deer. The ranch is lowfenced with a large hunter's/foreman's house and working pens, excellent low maintenance water system throughout the ranch, deep draws, and a good road system. The final frontier and priced to sell.

Call Scott (830) 591-9505 or Morris (210) 415-9850.

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Whitetail Springs Ranch

304± ACRES | BANDERA COUNTY PROPERTY ID: 2677908 The prettiest spring-fed live water in the Sabinal Canyon! The Sabinal River and Blackjack Creek meet below the comfortable ranch house that is surrounded by beautiful landscaping, gigantic cypress trees and oaks, and Hill Country rockwork that can’t be duplicated. The east side of the property offers hilltop building sites with views of the canyon, surrounding hills, and Utopia in the distance. Outstanding highway frontage on 187 near Lost Maples Park. Call today. You owe yourself a visit! Price just reduced. Don’t let this one get away! $3,995,000 150

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T-Bird Family Lodge

9± ACRES | BANDERA COUNTY | PROPERTY ID: 1953234 About four minutes from Utopia, this spacious home and guest house is tucked in between the beautiful oaks on nine acres. The family compound includes four bedrooms, four baths, furniture, heated pool with spa, garage, carport, outdoor shower, shop, barn, two wells, paved entry road, and manicured grounds that look like a park. The home and guest house are beautiful and ready to enjoy. It’s a deal for only $419,000.

Mill Creek

24± ACRES | BANDERA COUNTY | PROPERTY ID: 2795020 Spring-fed swimming and fishing hole on crystal clear Mill Creek! Several building sites on the creek, or for incredible views there are outstanding building sites on top of the hill. Electric and septic are in place. A special Hill Country live water getaway! $295,000 LANDSOFAMERICAMAGAZINES.COM

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Curry Creek Hideaway

29± ACRES | KENDALL COUNTY PROPERTY ID: 2504920 Enjoy the deep crystal clear swimming hole on this beautiful creek front property with paved county road access. The property is located among huge oaks, elms, and sycamore trees in a very private setting along Curry Creek. Only $398,385 and you will be sitting on the banks of Curry Creek.

Pipe Creek Gentleman’s Ranch

47.28± ACRES | BANDERA COUNTY PROPERTY ID: 1777300 This small ranch with frontage on Highway 1283 is ready-to-go and located in a beautiful Hill Country spot. A private drive leads through the oak trees to a tennis court adjacent to the threebedroom, two-bath home with covered patio, good well, septic and fenced yard. A large barn with pens, water, and electricity is tucked away on the south fence line. There is a stock tank on the west side of the property and several great building spots with outstanding views. Call for details.

Cielo Springs Lot

2.23± ACRES | BLANCO COUNTY | PROPERTY ID: 2773089 An untouched 2.32-acre lot to build your dream home in the secluded, undeveloped subdivision of Cielo Springs in the heart of Blanco, Texas.

Comfort 8.32 Acres

8.32± ACRES | KENDALL COUNTY | PROPERTY ID: 1670858 Ideal development commercial property on I-10 in Comfort, Texas. About 900 feet of frontage road boarders this perfectly shaped 8.32 acres. Tucked away in the partially wooded space is a main house, two cabins, eight mobile slots, three RV slots, septic tank and a well. Call for price and details. $349,000

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Bergheim River Ranch

123± ACRES | KENDALL COUNTY PROPERTY ID: 2031978 About 1,220 feet of deep Guadalupe River below a grand home tucked into the rolling oak and elm covered land that gently slopes down to the river. The concrete floor barn has an apartment with high-end appliances and finish out. Fenced and cross-fenced for cattle and over 1,500 feet of premium frontage on Highway 3351 between Bergheim and Sisterdale. Premium Guadalupe frontage, premium home, premium location, premium access! Call for details.

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Brushy Creek Ranch

1,180± ACRES | UVALDE COUNTY PROPERTY ID: 2504067 Turnkey ranch in the hills with breathtaking views from 2,000-foot elevations and water from seven live springs. A 3,000± square-foot home sits in the valley surrounded by the hills and large oaks.

This is a unique ranch in an area where ranches of this size do not come available often.

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9.5± ACRES | KARNES COUNTY | PROPERTY ID: 2256247 Ready to live in or use as a field office. Nice three-bedroom, two-bath open concept home with concrete floor barn. Great frontage on Highway 181 just south of Kenedy. $398,500

Concan Hill Country Ranch

724± ACRES | UVALDE COUNTY PROPERTY ID: 2872435 Located in the Frio Canyon, just minutes from Garner park, the Frio River and a brand new 18-hole golf course, providing endless possibilities for hunting and recreational usage. The ranch is an exceptional hunting property and is loaded with native whitetail, turkey, hogs and numerous variety of exotic game. $2,715,000

46± ACRES | KARNES COUNTY | PROPERTY ID: 2045561 Outstanding Highway 181 frontage at Escondido Street in Kennedy, Texas.

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Berger Ranch

128± ACRES | MEDINA COUNTY PROPERTY ID: 2447552 128-acre ranch located just south of the Medina Lake dam. An abundance of large oak trees, elms, mountain laurels and cedar make an excellent habitat for all the wildlife that reside on the ranch. An additional 25–100 acres to the north can be purchased to add to this ranch. $650,000

Brackettville Ranch

225± ACRES | KINNEY COUNTY | PROPERTY ID: 2449811 With over one mile of road frontage, this ranch is easily accessed with the entrance on 1572. The ranch consists of excellent South Texas brush. The terrain is gently rolling from north to south with two dirt tanks to catch any run off. The ranch is loaded with game and is truly a turnkey hunting ranch waiting to be brought back to life. Possible Owner Finance! Just reduced! $2,200 per acre

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Stone River Ranch

200± ACRES | MENARD COUNTY PROPERTY ID: 2690947 A meticulously maintained hunting, cattle, and horse ranch with two three-bedroom, two-bath ranch houses, three-stall stable, large barn, blinds, and end-of-the-road privacy within two hours of San Antonio and Austin. This is a ranch that everyone in the family will enjoy. Priced to sell.

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Cibolo Creek Game Ranch

257± ACRES | WILSON COUNTY PROPERTY ID: 2457045 Live water, exotic game ranch within 30 minutes of San Antonio on about a mile of Cibolo Creek with frontage on Highway 87. First-class and comfortable owners home with hunters lodge, guide cabin, blinds, several stock tanks that can be supplemented, highfenced, orchard, and beautiful rolling terrain with gigantic live oaks. Sutherland Springs water and a well. 50 percent of seller owned mineral interests, most of the extensive equipment, and really nice home and bunk house furnishings are offered with the property. $2,750,000 156

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DD Ranch

822± ACRES | ATASCOSA COUNTY PROPERTY ID: 1631172 First-class cattle ranch with great hunting and fishing on several large lakes within an hour of San Antonio. There are also two irrigation wells, a 90-acre pivot, frack water income, working pens and traps, nice owners home and foreman’s house. This cattle and hunting ranch has it all. $4,350,000

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Pecos River Ranch 3,900± ACRES | VAL VERDE COUNTY | PROPERTY ID: 2897105 The stars at night are big and bright, and Pecos River Ranch is the perfect place to view them! This is a superb live-water ranch with over two± miles of clear flowing Pecos River. The majority of the river is very accessible and provides great canoeing, kayaking or tubing. Originally owned for generations by the same family, the current owner has greatly improved and managed the ranch for the past seven years. Modifications include renovating the original headquarters, adding a barn, swimming pool, building a nice twobedroom, one-bath cabin overlooking the rapids of the river, the addition of food plots, constructing miles of roads and water lines, and providing access to most of the hilltops.

The varied terrain features numerous canyons with many draws that have live oaks and other native trees. Hilltop views are long and wide from the accessible peaks. The ranch is also under a MLD permit, which allows for longer hunting seasons, with abundant deer, turkey and other native wildlife. Water is king, and with nine water wells and two± miles of river, this is one of the best-watered ranches to be found in the area. The original family owned a water well drilling company and knew where and how to drill for good wells. This is an incredible year-round recreational ranch paradise that offers both hunting and fishing, and vast summits to enjoy the night sky. The Pecos River Ranch is a ranch that will bring years of enjoyment as a family or corporate retreat.

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Feller Ranch on Barons Creek 151± ACRES | GILLESPIE COUNTY | PROPERTY ID: 2696739 The Feller Ranch is a unique property with exciting opportunities for the investment minded buyer.

With close proximity to Fredericksburg, the property would make a nice family compound, wine vineyard, or possible upper scale master development. The gently rolling terrain is loaded with beautifully maintained post oaks and ancient live oaks. The property has both sides of Baron Creek that meanders across the ranch, as well as another wet-weather creek. The Feller family has managed the ranch over the last several decades and has worked the rich soils of the ranch’s native and improved Bermuda pastures. A lovely historic home rests high on the hill overlooking Fredericksburg and the exquisite surrounding countryside.

Romara Ridge Ranch 131± ACRES | GILLESPIE COUNTY | PROPERTY ID: 1408111 Romara Ridge Ranch is one of the most unique Hill Country ranches in the area. Expansive views stretch as far as the eye can see. Comprised of 131± acres, the property is located north of Fredericksburg and only six miles from Enchanted Rock. Accented by first-class accommodations, the impressive 3,528± square-foot German-style cut limestone and sandstone main home features gorgeous high-quality details inside and out. Near the main home, you will find a beautiful pool overlooking the property, two expansive guest houses, a climate-controlled wine cellar, a fully functional woodworkers shop, and an exceptional energy-efficient glass greenhouse supporting a custom designed 45’x75’ outdoor garden. A wet-weather creek runs along the northeast boundary, while native post oak, live oak and juniper provide privacy and ample wildlife habitat areas. Abundant native whitetail deer, axis and turkey can be seen on the property.

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Sister Creek Ranch 247± ACRES | KENDALL COUNTY | PROPERTY ID: 2125920 Located near the quaint town of Sisterdale, Sister Creek Ranch is a picturesque property, offered for the first time in over 40 years. The ranch has impressive water features including approximately 6,000± feet of Sister Creek and approximately 900± feet of Guadalupe River. This beautiful live-water Texas heritage ranch has several nice coastal fields, and a large four-bedroom, three-bath Hill Country-style home shaded by mature oaks and other hardwoods. There is a broad selection of additional building sites overlooking Sister Creek and the Guadalupe River valley. Additional acreage is available for expansion as well.

Cauthorn Ranch 4,264± ACRES | SUTTON COUNTY | PROPERTY ID: 2329223 The Cauthorn Ranch is a long-time family owned ranch located southwest of Sonora. The ranch has notable characteristics including good bottom land soil, mesquite flats and nice live oak motts. Elevations range from a low of 2,095± to 2,240± feet, with impressive distant views. Four water wells provide water throughout the ranch. Three wells are powered by windmills and one is a submersible. In addition, there are a couple of tanks and several nice draws running through the property. Whitetail, turkey, dove, quail, hogs and other game animals frequently roam the ranch.

Double L Ranch 806± ACRES | KERR COUNTY | PROPERTY ID: 2118515 This ranch is one of the best ranches located in the heart of the Divide Country. The Double L Ranch has quality whitetail deer with introduced genetics brought in earlier this year. It has been well managed for years and is a superb hunting ranch. The entire perimeter is high-fenced, with low cross-fencing into two pastures. Water is provided by three water wells that include three submersible pumps, a windmill, storage tanks, and water troughs. Much of the cedar has been selectively removed. Live oak and shin oak motts are present throughout the ranch. The main road is paved and other roads are in good condition for easy access through the ranch. A large feed bin, blinds, and feeders are in place and are negotiable to the new buyer.

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Sisterdale Ranch 170± ACRES | KENDALL COUNTY | PROPERTY ID: 2632445 We are proud to represent this picturesque ranch located just east of charming Sisterdale.

Positioned near the center of the ranch to enjoy the scenery sits a historic home, recently renovated back to its original condition. Most of the cedar has been removed over the years to provide outstanding views of the Guadalupe River valley. Majestic oaks and other native hardwoods dot the lush landscape. The lay of the land is very diverse with good building sites and a nice roll and slope to the south of the property. A suitable all-weather road is in place for easy access. Abundant game allows for easy hunting and recreation. This is a unique ranch that will bring many years of enjoyment to the new owner.

Vista View Ranch 753± ACRES | KENDALL COUNTY | PROPERTY ID: 2870936 Vista View Ranch is one of the few large acreage ranches to come available in this area of Kendall/ Gillespie/Kerr counties. Located south of Fredericksburg, the ranch features gently rolling land and awesome views of the majestic Hill Country. The property has many good building sites. Several natural springs run through the ranch that could be developed into sizable tanks. Beautiful post oak and live oak abound as the cedar has been cleared over the years. Good to fair perimeter fencing encompasses the ranch boundaries. One water well is in place. Typical sightings of groups of whitetail, axis and turkey can routinely be seen while traveling through the ranch.

Twin Creeks Ranch 127± ACRES | KENDALL COUNTY PROPERTY ID: 2267157 One of the best live-water properties in the Hill Country.

Crystal clear flowing creeks characterize this stunning 127± ranch. With approximately 1,800± feet of both sides of West Sister Creek and 2,000± feet of Jung Creek traversing the ranch, this is a truly must-see property. In addition, there is a large four± acre lake established for fishing and recreation.

Two nicely appointed cottages are also included, positioned to make the most of the ranch’s live-water. The main cottage sits above the banks of West Sister Creek and has a single bedroom, two baths, and a covered deck. The second cottage has four bedrooms and two baths overlooking Jung Creek. Nice bottomland on the property has been cleared for productive food plots for wildlife.

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Cypress Creek Ranch 153± ACRES | KERR COUNTY | PROPERTY ID: 2260333 This is your opportunity to obtain your very own Hill Country heritage place! Explore the beauty of Cypress Creek Ranch. Its springs and caves will bring many years of enjoyment.

Massive towering cypress trees line approximately 5,280± feet of creek bank, including several nice springs supplementing the creek flow. With productive coastal fields and a venerable homestead marking the landscape, this ranch has all the pieces in place for the new owners to create a gratifying legacy for decades to come.

Flying L Ranch 2,380± ACRES | SUTTON COUNTY | PROPERTY ID: 2719357 A rare find for the avid hunter! Flying L Ranch is located in Sutton County southeast of Sonora. The basics are in place with paved road frontage, abundant wildlife, good underground water, live oak motts, and mesquite bottoms. The property is a haven for axis, whitetail, turkey, hogs, quail and other animals. Hearty grasslands extend to rolling terrain and beautiful views. This property is versatile with a blank canvas for creating the perfect personal or corporate retreat.

Double M Ranch 96± ACRES | KIMBLE COUNTY | PROPERTY ID: 2614363 Double M. Ranch’s notable land management has been in place throughout the years, preserving the beautiful oak trees and native grasses of the gently rolling terrain. A beautiful two-story rock home features exquisite rustic touches throughout, with a large master, high ceilings and a sizeable loft. A nice barn is in place with a walk-in cooler for the hunting season. Some shin oak is located on the property as well, providing good browse for the roaming wildlife. Double M Ranch is the perfect family getaway place with easy access from San Antonio or Austin.

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BV Ranch 69± ACRES | REAL COUNTY | PROPERTY ID: 2841989 Wide-open spaces surrounded by majestic hills provide beautiful views and fantastic hunting opportunities on this Real County ranch. Located south of Leakey, the gently rolling terrain of BV Ranch is abundant with axis and white tail deer. The property features many quality amenities including a 2,400± square-foot, four-bedroom, three-bath ranch house, a fully enclosed pipe fenced arena, working holding pens, a 1,000± square-foot barn with covered horse stalls—complete with water and electricity, a 1,500± square-foot pavilion for entertaining, and a five-stall covered equipment shed. Two productive water wells, mature oak and pecan trees, and rich soil enhance the quality of the property.

Seven Sisters Ranch 31± ACRES | KENDALL COUNTY | PROPERTY ID: 2855943 Seven Sisters Ranch is located northeast of charming Sisterdale. Admire the striking panoramic views of this 31± acre property from the extensive covered porch. The lovely 2,214± square-foot home is positioned at the best location to make the most of distant hills.

Large windows, high ceilings, and an open floor plan enhance your viewing pleasure from inside, complete with three bedrooms, two baths, a roomy kitchen with a walk-in pantry, and a large walk-in closet in the private master. A large storage area off of the attached two-car carport offers a fourth bedroom and bath. Below the residential area, a nice storage barn with two fenced paddocks allows for the perfect equine recreational area. Mature trees, a watering hole, and a seasonal creek compliment the beautiful rolling terrain of the ranch, inhabited by white tail deer, turkey, and other native wildlife.

Live Oak Creek Ranch 28± ACRES | GILLESPIE COUNTY PROPERTY ID: 2719046 Just minutes from the quaint town of Fredericksburg, Live Oak Creek Ranch has numerous attributes, beginning with both sides of Live Oak Creek which flows through the property for about 1,200± feet. A nice water feature can be added by building a dam. A beautiful large pecan grove is on the east side of the creek, with productive fields on the west side. The main house is situated on a hill overlooking the creek. With some renovations, it will make a nice weekend home. Two water wells are on the property. This is a rare opportunity to own a live-water ranch close to Fredericksburg!

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Thurn Ranch 100± ACRES | MEDINA COUNTY | PROPERTY ID: 2082054 Forever views from the hilltops on this secluded 100± acre ranch is the perfect set-up.

Thurn Ranch has an immaculate 40x60 metal barn with rolling doors to get you started.

The rainwater harvesting system includes two 20,000± gallon tanks—full and ready to tie in. Both the barn and water system were built in recent years. New fencing was installed approximately three years ago. Healthy native oak cover, mountain laurel and juniper cedar create a perfect Hill Country habitat for the wildlife. All located in the Hill Country’s beautiful Medina County!

DMC Ranch 7± ACRES | GILLESPIE COUNTY | PROPERTY ID: 2510364 DMC Ranch is a fabulous country estate just outside of Kerrville. The beautiful 3,700± square-foot main home has been tastefully remodeled and is located on picturesque manicured seven± acres. A lovely two-bedroom, two-bath guest house is located on the property along with a large workshop that also includes living quarters. A scenic waterfall garden and a massive outdoor cooking area with fireplace, barbecue pit, and large screen video entertainment area enhances the enjoyment of this property. Ag valuation keeps taxes lower. The property is located in Tierra Linda Ranch, which has various amenities including a swimming area and private airport.

Dunbar Ranch 285± ACRES | SUTTON COUNTY | PROPERTY ID: 2639353 Longtime family owned 285± acre Dunbar Draw Ranch is offered for the first time on the market. This perfectly sized property has good paved road frontage for easy access and fencing in suitable condition. Several cleared areas lend way to exceptional views, allowing for numerous possible building opportunities. An electric submersible water well is already in place and the area has good underground water for possible additional water wells. Wildlife on the property is plentiful with whitetail deer, axis, feral hogs, and wild turkey.

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Upper Cibolo Creek Ranch 43± ACRES | KENDALL COUNTY | PROPERTY ID: 2507720 Amazing views of the surrounding Cibolo Creek Valley offers an idyllic weekend getaway at Upper Cibolo Creek Ranch. A classic rock homestead overlooks Cibolo Creek, surrounded by 43± acres of beautiful native Hill Country. The home is located in the lower portion of the property overlooking the live-water creek, while the remaining acreage at higher elevations allows excellent hunting, hiking or possibilities for other building sites. Elevations near the home are approximately 1,600 to 1,845 feet at the peak of the hill. Healthy populations of whitetail and axis deer are seen regularly throughout the property. Quietly secluded on a paved county road and only minutes from Boerne.

J Bar D Ranch 65± ACRES | KENDALL COUNTY | PROPERTY ID: 1535363 J Bar D Ranch offers prime rural real estate loaded with healthy hardwoods including post oak and live oak. A gentle roll of the land contains elevations in the 1,400± foot range across the ranch. Grasses are primarily little bluestem with perennial forbes, offering good nutrition for the wildlife and cattle. An adequate sized stock tank offers a good source of water for wildlife and dove hunting. Access to the property is by 60± foot easement. A contiguous 60± acres with approximately 595± feet of Ammann road frontage is also available.

Running D Ranch 295± ACRES | KIMBLE COUNTY | PROPERTY ID: 1780873 Running D Ranch has the live-water you’ve been looking for in the Texas Hill Country! The North Llano River and two creeks—Maynard and Frog Creeks— flow over this superb ranch located between Junction and Roosevelt. With 295± acres to explore, you’ll enjoy spending the weekend on the ranch right away while hunting or fishing. The property is already equipped with a mobile home, carport, outbuilding, and walk-in freezer. Additional building sites are available as well. One water well contains a submersible pump to provide water to the living quarters. Wildlife includes water fowl, fish, hogs, deer, turkey, and dove.

Bond Ranch 247± ACRES | SUTTON COUNTY | PROPERTY ID: 2660560 Bond Ranch is the perfect-sized hunting ranch surrounded by larger ranches, located northeast of Sonora. The property has been cleared of cedar over the years, leaving ample grasses and deep soils with mesquites. A nice set of cattle pens, fencing, a water well and good groundwater provides opportunity for raising livestock. The ranch has over a mile of paved road access along the front and good interior roads through the property. Abundant wildlife includes a variety of native animals including axis, whitetail, and wild turkey.

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6606 N New Braunfels San Antonio, Texas 78209

La Corona Ranch 2,721± ACRES | DIMMIT AND LASALLE COUNTIES | PROPERTY ID: 2574738 This exceptional ranch is in the heart of the ‘Golden Triangle’ and offers a turn-key property that has it all. Aptly name ‘La Corona’, this red dirt ranch is well-watered, has diverse brush habitat and immaculate, extensive improvements. Besides an impressive main home with pool, this high-fenced land features numerous barns, state-of-the-art deer facility, guest house, original lodge, pavilion, staff accommodations, and inclusive blinds and feeders. The ranch has a MLDP Level 3 with wildlife of whitetail deer, turkey, javelina, quail and dove. 13 earthen tanks invite large mouth bass fishing! Robert Dullnig, (210) 213-9700

Blue Hills Ranch

Yoas Marshall Ranch

20,944± ACRES | VAL VERDE COUNTY | PROPERTY ID: 2614059 The Blue Hills Ranch is the ideal investment for a large acreage hunting and/ or cattle ranch. Breathtaking and scenic terrain varies from gentle rolling hills to large dramatic canyons and seasonal creek drainages that provide excellent habitat for wildlife. The ranch offers great hunting opportunities and has several water wells piped to troughs to support cattle and wildlife. 11± miles of paved frontage along FM 1024 provides easy access. Robert Dullnig, (210) 213-9700 2014

5,650± ACRES | VAL VERDE AND KINNEY COUNTIES PROPERTY ID: 2003505 This high-fenced ranch features eight types of exotic species plus native whitetail, turkey, waterfowl, dove and quail. This is a beautiful and unique property that is ready to be hunted and explored. Miles of Turkey Creek and Sacatosa Creek combine with tanks, ponds plus a 30± acre lake. Two water wells service nice improvements on each tract. Minerals. Robert Dullnig, (210) 213-9700

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Little Indian Creek Ranch 2,894± ACRES | UVALDE COUNTY | PROPERTY ID: 2792271 Owned and operated by the same family since the 1920s, this ranch offers a truly wild-feel and is a desirable transition zone property with the convenience of Uvalde nearby. It has a perfect blend of good South Texas brush, complemented by Hill Country oak trees and scenic rolling hills. There are three water wells, pilas, 10 troughs plus seasonal Indian Creek. Whitetail deer, bobwhite and blue quail, turkey, dove and others. Minerals. Robert Dullnig, (210) 213-9700

Conoly Ranch 1,832± ACRES | KINNEY COUNTY | PROPERTY ID: 2016559 Here is a rare opportunity to own the South Texas Brush Country outside of the Eagle Ford Shale that has been owned and operated by the same family since 1906. Diverse brush has large oak trees present throughout and supports native whitetail deer, turkey, javelina, hogs, quail and dove. Robert Dullnig, (210) 213-9700

South Conoly Pastures 952± ACRES | KINNEY COUNTY | PROPERTY ID: 2683777 Offered is the south pasture of the Conoly Ranch, low-fenced land with water troughs and water lines plus one tank. Diverse brush, scattered with large oak trees, provides habitat for whitetail deer, turkey, javelina, hogs, quail and dove.

Robert Dullnig, (210) 213-9700

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6606 N New Braunfels San Antonio, Texas 78209

Circle V Ranch 700± ACRES | DIMMIT COUNTY | PROPERTY ID: 2847087 In the heart of ‘Big Deer Country’, this partially low-fenced ranch offers great native hunting. Terrain ranges from rolling sandy hills to low-brush bottom land, with a highlight of a one-plus acre tank and attractive improvements including a home, pool, game cleaning station, equipment barn, walk-in cooler, smoke house and lighted rifle range. Excellent quail habitat plus whitetail deer, turkey, dove, javelina, hogs and varmints. Robert Dullnig, (210) 213-9700

Cuchara Creek Ranch 1,232± ACRES | WEBB COUNTY | PROPERTY ID: 2677535 Owned and operated by the same family since the 1930s, this low-fenced, free-range hunting ranch is located in the heart of native ‘Big Deer Country’.

Truly wild terrain offers excellent brush diversity, drainages and gentle roll, plus seasonal Cuchara Creek and two tanks. Wildlife includes whitetail deer, turkey, javelina, hogs, quail and dove. Robert Dullnig, (210) 213-9700

Jacalon Ranch 4,666± ACRES | WEBB AND ZAPATA COUNTIES PROPERTY ID: 1999111 This ranch is a turnkey, low-fenced hunting ranch in 100 percent brush country surrounded by big neighbors with an exceptional trophy deer herd that has been managed under MLD Level 3 permit. The spacious hunting lodge sits atop a hill offering stunning 360-degree views. Featured are six tanks plus four water wells and rainwater storage. Wildlife also includes bobwhite and blue quail, dove, ducks, hogs, javelina and others. Robert Dullnig and Randy Cadwallader, (210) 860-0093 2014

Kone Farm 368± ACRES | ZAVALA COUNTY | PROPERTY ID: 2833765 Good size hunting/cattle ranch includes a producing olive tree orchard. A Carrizo irrigation well waters the 100± acre, high-fenced orchard, and possibly could water a larger area. Several other non-operating Carrizo irrigation wells add immense water potential! Improvements include a low-fenced perimeter and three-phase electricity. An abundance of quail and dove are present, with potential for additional wildlife with management. Robert Dullnig, (210) 213-9700

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Lagarto Valley Ranch 2,097± ACRES | LIVE OAK AND JIM WELLS COUNTIES PROPERTY ID: 2505595 Owned and operated by the same family for over 50 years, this beautiful rolling terrain offers a great, low-fenced opportunity. There are two water wells with seven± miles of underground piping to eight troughs and two ponds.

Improvements include one set of cattle pens and scenic coastal pastures sculpted into the 60 percent native diverse brush. Selectively cleared senderos offer opportunity to view whitetail deer, turkey, javelina, dove, quail and hogs.

Minerals. Robert Dullnig, (210) 213-9700

Atascosa River Ranch 1,642± ACRES | LIVE OAK COUNTY | PROPERTY ID: 2483033 With over one± mile of Atascosa River and only 65± miles from San Antonio, this is a rare South Texas offering. The property has large trees throughout and ascends from low bottom creek land to slightly rolling terrain. Owned and operated by the same family since the early 1970s, it offers great hunting in a desirable area. Wildlife includes whitetail deer, turkey, javelina, hogs, dove and quail. Robert Dullnig, (210) 213-9700

Bynum Ranch 445± ACRES | ATASCOSA COUNTY | PROPERTY ID: 2088117 This beautiful land is only 35± miles from San Antonio, and provides great potential for improvements of choice. It features huge live oak and post oak trees, scattered mesquites, and a 160± acre field with nearby Carrizo well for future irrigation potential. There is one tank, three water wells, one trough plus a hunter’s shack with electricity. High-fenced on two sides, it is home to whitetail deer, turkey, quail, dove, wild pigs and varmints. Robert Dullnig, (210) 213-9700

5R Ranch 297± ACRES | ATASCOSA COUNTY | PROPERTY ID: 2634772 This well-watered, recreational hunting ranch is located only 60± miles from San Antonio. Owned and operated by the same family for many years, it offers excellent brush diversity, three water wells and five tanks. An attractive home plus fishing, making it a special place. Wildlife includes whitetail deer, turkey, javelina, quail, dove, hogs and seasonal ducks. Robert Dullnig, (210) 213-9700

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6606 N New Braunfels San Antonio, Texas 78209

Vara Ranch 1,200± ACRES | UVALDE COUNTY | PROPERTY ID: 2477134 This truly scenic property has 1,200± feet of the flowing Frio River, one of the largest ranches for sale in the scenic Frio River Canyon. Year-round activities and adventures include hunting to fishing to swimming and water activities.

There are three charming small homes and perimeter fencing/cross-fencing.

Abundant native wildlife includes whitetail, axis, aoudad, turkey, javelina and hogs plus the Frio River offers bass and cat fishing. Robert Dullnig, (210) 213-9700

Main Quihi Creek Ranch 545± ACRES | MEDINA COUNTY | PROPERTY ID: 2857363 What a great opportunity to own a secluded piece of property only one hour from metropolitan San Antonio. This ranch has a great mixture of creek bottoms, flat land, and hill tops with long distance views. Portions of the ranch have been selectively cleared highlighting the beautiful oak trees and providing great locations to build improvements of your choice. Native wildlife includes whitetail deer, turkey, dove, wild hogs among others. Robert Dullnig, (210) 213-9700 2014

Rio Nueces Ranch 1,055± ACRES | UVALDE COUNTY | PROPERTY ID: 1720806 Quietly secluded, this ranch is where the West Prong and Main Prong of the Nueces River meet. Large oak trees and South Texas brush make this a great transition zone property that supports an abundance of native wildlife. In place is a small hunting cabin, working pens, low perimeter fencing and two water wells with water lines to troughs and the cabin. Minerals. Robert Dullnig, (210) 213-9700

Aguila & Gavilan Pastures Y.O. Ranch 1,205± ACRES | KERR COUNTY | PROPERTY ID: 2035263 Own a piece of the legendary Y.O. Ranch! The Schreiner family is selling 1,205± acres of pastureland in the southwest corner of the ranch, owned and operated since 1885. The beautiful rolling country is raw and ready for improvements.

The perimeter is partially high-fenced, with one water well distributing water to troughs. Wildlife includes whitetail deer, axis, blackbuck, sika and red stag.

Robert Dullnig, (210) 213-9700

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Robinson Ranch, Since 1885 831± ACRES | BLANCO COUNTY | PROPERTY ID: 1026028 This beautiful ranch includes the charming 1889s homestead built by the Robinson Family, and an incredible one± mile of year-round flowing Cypress Creek, plus natural springs and one water well. The water attracts abundant whitetail deer, turkey, hogs, dove, bird species and others.

Near Horseshoe Bay and a pleasing drive from Austin. Robert Dullnig, (210) 213-9700

Warren Creek Ranch 2,675± ACRES | HAMILTON AND COMANCHE COUNTIES PROPERTY ID: 1725616 This ranch is in the center of several major metroplexes, in excellent cattle/ recreation country with native whitetail deer, turkey, dove and hogs. Rolling terrain offers nice views. There are six water wells, three stock tanks, a branch of Warren Creek plus a five± acre lake offers bass fishing and duck hunting.

Robert Dullnig and Marc Sherron, (830) 739-0919

WKL Ranch 561± ACRES | BLANCO COUNTY | PROPERTY ID: 2553943 This turn-key, beautifully maintained ranch offers a blend of recreation and Hill County beauty with a crystal clear spring-fed lake, four tanks, and five wells.

Improvements include a rock residence, caretaker’s home, barns plus 100± acres game-fenced. Wildlife includes deer, turkey, hogs, plus a lake to test your fly-fishing skills. Rolling terrain, selectively cleared of cedar, has large oak trees, native brush and hay pastures. Excellent access with three-quarters of a mile of Rocky Road, just west of Blanco. Al Philip, (210) 415-8602

Hackberry Ranch 743± ACRES | RUNNELS COUNTY | PROPERTY ID: 2629350 There is so much to offer on these 743± acres, owned and operated by the same family for over 30 years! Perfect for hunting, cattle, or for recreation to enjoy beautiful outdoors. Surface water includes two tanks and Red Bank Creek, part of the Colorado River, which traverses the land and holds large pools of water year around with options to fish, canoe, and swim. Multiple high elevations have breathtaking views and provide locations for improvements of choice. Robert Dullnig, (210) 213-9700

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Broken Spur Ranch 775± ACRES | KERR COUNTY | PROPERTY ID: 2862613 Renown Broken Spur Ranch include multiple awards for TGR Ranch of the Year, Outfitter of the Year, as well as trophy whitetail awards including #1 Big Buck contest entries, 2012–2014. Amazing wildlife includes axis, fallow, blackbuck, red sheep, black hawaian, Texas doll, four-horned sheep, painted desert corisican, elk, whitetail deer, eland, scimitar-horned oryx, aoudad, Rocky Mountain big horn Texas/doll crosses. All inclusive, the high-fenced ranch features a beautiful lodge with outdoor entertainment area with pool and hot tub, five water wells, 11 tanks/ponds, barn, cleaning facilities, kennels, blinds, feeders and ranch vehicles.

Marc Sherron, (830) 739-0919

Live Water Wolf Creek 65± ACRES | GILLESPIE COUNTY | PROPERTY ID: 2662618 An idyllic setting between historic Fredericksburg and Kerrville features a gorgeous custom home, pool and guest apartment, on high-fenced acreage featuring both sides of Wolf Creek. Wildlife includes blackbuck antelope, whitetail deer and other native species. Beautiful rolling landscape supports native grasses highlighted by large hardwood trees, only 11 miles from town.

Marc Sherron, (830) 739-0919 2014

Hilltop Ranch 648± ACRES | KIMBLE COUNTY | PROPERTY ID: 2838216 This desirable turn-key ranch captures exciting views from its hilltop location.

An attractive main home and guest cabin include all furnishing, plus ranch improvements include a metal barn, cleaning station, blinds, feeders and hunting trucks. Home to whitetail deer, turkey, quail and others. Minerals.

Marc Sherron, (830) 739-0919

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6823 Ranger Creek Road 106.94± ACRES | KENDALL COUNTY | PROPERTY ID: 1984932 Endless scenic views on this luxurious private ranch. This spectacular Hill Country ranch is set on 106 wildlife-exempt acres and was part of the Historic “711 ranch”. The five beautifully-positioned buildings on this fantastic property are the epitome of Hill Country architecture. Limestone and masonry exteriors, spray foam insulation, standing seam metal roofs and a well-engineered, ecofriendly 87,000-gallon rain water catchment system are just a few of the green building techniques that were used throughout this luxurious ranch. The 5,100-square-foot main house features a magnificent two-story great room with a limestone fireplace, chef’s kitchen, large dining area and a first-floor master suite with coffee bar. Throughout the rest of the home are spacious bedrooms, four-and-a-half baths, and a first-floor media room. Expand the entertainment options with the pool and party house which features an air-conditioned gaming area with a full bath, changing room and screened porch. While outside by the pool, cook your favorite barbecue on the built-in gas grill with under-counter refrigerator, sink and granite counters. Other buildings on the property include an oversized detached garage which has a fitness room, full bath, wet bar and large office suite/bedroom living areas spanning the entire second floor. The very quaint and inviting guest house features a full bath with dual vanity, vaulted and unique ceiling treatments throughout, stained concrete floors, full kitchen, granite counters and covered patios. An insulated metal barn/workshop includes a large clear span area for storage of all your toys and adjoining the barn is a very nice apartment with twobedrooms, one-bath and a loft. This property sits just 10 minutes to all Historic Downtown Boerne has to offer and is only 40 minutes to San Antonio International Airport. This legacy property was designed for privacy, outdoor recreation and entertaining. Call today for a private tour!

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5C Quarter Horses Ranch Titus County $2,699,000 366 +/- Acres

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Mile High Hacienda Ranch El Paso County $8,250,000 9999 +/- Acres

Robinson Robinson Ranch Ranch Blanco Blanco County County $9,556,500 $9,556,500 831831 +/-+/Acres Acres

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Valor Farm Denton County $16,750,000 392+/- Acres

Moon River Ranch Falls County $7,900,000 951+/- Acres

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LIVE WATER RANCHES

Cowhouse Creek Ranch 434± ACRES | HAMILTON COUNTY PROPERTY ID: 2657722

Robinson Ranch 831± ACRES | BLANCO COUNTY PROPERTY ID: 1380169

This recreational ranch has the clear running waters of Cowhouse Creek, and a combination of grasses, woodland setting, and rolling pasture land, to make it a very versatile property. In addition to the recreational aspect of this ranch, the property currently has a cattle operation, hay production and some pecan harvesting in place. Offered at $1,432,200. Contact Harlan Ray, c: 214.908.7770 or David Burgher, c: 214.213.8715

Located in the heart of the Texas Hill Country, this beautiful historic ranch features two rustic rock homes filled with vintage charm. There is a diverse terrain including rolling hills, beautiful creek bottoms and even some great pastureland.

Cypress Creek runs through a large portion of the ranch with several deep pools and a lush canopy of cypress trees to create a peaceful setting in the spring-fed year-round water source. Offered at $9,556,500. Contact Harlan Ray, c: 214.908.7770 or David Burgher, c: 214.213.8715

Clear Springs Ranch 510± ACRES | BOSQUE COUNTY PROPERTY ID: 2868469

RANCH AND LAND DIVISION 2913 Fairmount, Suite 200 | Dallas, Texas 75201 ranch.briggsfreeman.com

This beautiful Central Texas ranch is ideal for recreational hunting, fishing, riding horses and grazing livestock.

With over 4,800 feet of frontage on both sides of Spring Creek, arguably one of the best creeks in Bosque County, this is a hunter’s paradise with an abundance of deer, turkey, dove, and ducks on the property.

Offered at $2,030,000. Contact Harlan Ray, c: 214.908.7770 or David Burgher, c: 214.213.8715

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BRAZOS RIVER RANCHES

Lucky Cross Ranch 432± ACRES | PALO PINTO COUNTY PROPERTY ID: 2855124

Black Bridge Ranch 1,034± ACRES | MILAM COUNTY PROPERTY ID: 1946013

Moon River Ranch 951± ACRES | FALLS COUNTY PROPERTY ID: 2050591

Nestled within the Palo Pinto Hills, with over 2,000 feet of frontage on the Brazos River. This ranch offers unlimited recreational activities and hunting for wild turkeys and native deer. There are improved pastures for cattle and grazing, several stock ponds and a deep water well to supply water for the ranch house and improvements.

Offered at $3,400,000. Contact Harlan Ray, c: 214.908.7770 or David Burgher, c: 214.213.8715

This beautiful ranch includes significant oil and gas production in addition to the rare opportunity to own over four miles of Brazos River frontage. Located in Central Texas, this property has abundant recreational potential including canoeing on the river, hunting and fishing on the river, and horseback riding in the sandy-bottom land that lies in the oxbow of the river. Offered at $6,250,000. Contact Harlan Ray, c: 214.908.7770 or David Burgher, c: 214.213.8715

Located 20 minutes south of Waco on the Brazos River, Moon River Ranch a fine Texas ranch is currently being used to host executive retreats, corporate events, weddings, private parties, and family reunions. Enjoy peaceful horseback rides through the pastures; shoot skeet, or float in a canoe down four miles of frontage the Brazos River. The headquarters of the ranch includes an impressive custom-built main lodge, several additional homes or residences, workshops, barns, and even a multi-use dancehall. Offered at $7,900,000.Contact Harlan Ray, c: 214.908.7770 or David Burgher, c: 214.213.8715

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RANCH AND LAND DIVISION 2913 Fairmount, Suite 200 | Dallas, Texas 75201 ranch.briggsfreeman.com

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HUNTING & CATTLE RANCHES

4B Ranch 360± ACRES | SOMERVELL COUNTY PROPERTY ID: 2383272

Robinson Creek Ranch 2,083± ACRES | HOOD COUNTY PROPERTY ID: 2778818

4B Ranch is located less than two miles north of historic and charming Glen Rose abutting Dinosaur Valley State Park. This beautiful house, barn, stalls, apartments, lighted arena and working pens along with abundant game, native grasses, numerous lakes and stock ponds, this ranch is perfect for recreational, cattle or horse operations.

Offered at $4,200,000. Contact Harlan Ray, c: 214.908.7770 or David Burgher, c: 214.213.8715

Situated near Lipan, at the north-end of the Texas Hill County, this ranch has been owned by the same family since 1949. Crossed by Robinson Creek, with elevation changes of 200 feet, large open pastures surrounded by cedar breaks offering superb hunting as well as excellent grazing for cattle on the property. Dove and ducks visit the lakes and creeks in profusion; cougar, hogs, fox and bobcats also live and flourish on the ranch. In addition to hunting, there are also excellent fishing and camping opportunities on the lakes and creeks. Seller owns and will convey 100 percent of the minerals for the right price. Offered at $9,890,000. Contact Harlan Ray, c: 214.908.7770 or David Burgher, c: 214.213.8715

Palo Pinto Opportunities 570± ACRES | PALO PINTO COUNTY

RANCH AND LAND DIVISION 2913 Fairmount, Suite 200 | Dallas, Texas 75201 ranch.briggsfreeman.com

Located approximately one hour west of Fort Worth, this area is the future home of the Turkey Peak Reservoir, which will provide recreational activities and rural water service to parts of Palo Pinto and Parker Counties. Currently there are seven properties in this area with ponds, tanks, and lakes. Some of the properties can be subdivided into smaller tracts. Prices and acreage are negotiable. Contact Harlan Ray, c: 214.908.7770, Clayton Warren, c: 214.493.1056 or David Burgher, c: 214.213.8715

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RANCH ESTATES

Bosque Canyon Ranch PART OF 3,745± ACRES BOSQUE COUNTY PROPERTY ID: 1126304

Mountain View Ranch 15± ACRES | DENTON COUNTY PROPERTY ID: 2227996

Shooting Star Ranch 111± ACRES | DENTON COUNTY PROPERTY ID: 2535255

Bosque Canyon Ranch, with a total of 3,745 acres, is a great alternative for the persons who want the feel of owning a large ranch and all of the improvements and amenities without the headache or cost. Only 48 members own an undivided interest in the “shared ranch” community, while also owning their own five-acre lot, fee simple. The “Top of the Hill Country” property offers a variety of terrain including rolling pastures to heavily wooded, canyons, vegetation, wildlife, lakes and creeks, and only 10 minutes from Lake Whitney Lot prices start at $385,000 Contact David Burgher, c: 214.213.8715

Located 45 minutes north of Dallas in the heart of the North Texas horse country with rolling hills and a bucolic country setting. This ranch is ideal for family living and entertaining. The 5,600-square-foot main house has panoramic views of the pool and outdoor entertaining areas, matures trees and beautiful pastures. There is an eight-stall, 5,000-square-foot custom metal barn with a two-story apartment. Offered at $1,999,950.

This great “in-town” ranch with future development potential is located 50 minutes north of Dallas, just minutes west of the North Dallas Tollway in the Town of Cross Roads. This area of Northern Dallas/Fort Worth is experiencing unprecedented growth and development, creating investment and development potential in the near future for this ranch. Originally developed as a horse ranch with a 5,639-square-foot main house and other improvements including a separate office/ guest house, helicopter pad and hangar, horse barn with 11 stalls and four ponds. Offered at $4,200,000.

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Chrystal Falls Ranch 4,000± ACRES | STEPHENS AND YOUNG COUNTIES | PROPERTY ID: 2671640 Chrystal Falls Ranch is approximately 4,000 acres located in Stephens and Young Counties, Texas. Two contiguous sections are divided by FM 283: The northern portion consists of 3,500 acres under high game fence and intensive wildlife management and the 500-acre southern portion of the ranch with over a mile of river frontage along the Clear Fork of the Brazos River, with the majority of the improvements including hunting lodge, ranch manager’s house, livestock facilities and barns. The custom-built, two-story lodge overlooks the Clear Fork of the Brazos River and features 10 bedrooms and seven bathrooms, including two master suites, game room and large great room with an open kitchen, dining and living area. The ranch-style manager’s house is a five-bedroom with livestock facilities including barns and equipment storage sheds nearby. Scattered throughout the property are 15-plus ponds with the largest one being roughly 2.5 acres. There are great fishing opportunities. Along with the Clear Fork of the Brazos, there are several other wet and dry weather creeks. COOP water lines run to both houses including over seven miles of water lines throughout the property. Along with the native wildlife of whitetail deer, hogs, turkey, dove, ducks and varmints, the ranch is also stocked with axis deer and blackbuck antelope. Waterfowl hunting is known to be good on the larger ponds and dove hunting is excellent around ponds and the large food plots and open fields. All stands, deer feeders, and hunting vehicles come included with the sale. Additional hunting equipment includes a fully equipped wildlife processing barn. There is also a shooting range. Currently the ranch is leased for cattle grazing. Offered at $10,380,000. For more information, contact Dax Pass, c: 214.557.8643 or Patrick Murray, c: 214.679.4341.

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Hedrick Ranch 1,233± ACRES | TAYLOR COUNTY | PROPERTY ID: 2118597 The historic Hedrick Ranch is located just east of Buffalo Gap, Texas and is 15 miles south of Abilene, Texas. The native stone home was built in 1893 with the stone being 18 inches thick and quarried from the area. Breathtaking views, improved pastures, hardwoods and wet weather creeks run throughout this extraordinary property. The topography is rolling with native grasses and wooded areas. There are five stock ponds and several wet-weather creeks.

Abundant wildlife thrives on this ranch and a hunting lease has been in place for several years. The ranch has been well maintained with good roads and very little grazing. Fences are in good condition. Minerals available. Offered at $2,712,600. For information contact Dax Pass, c: 214.557.8643.

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623.21± ACRES | DENTON COUNTY | PROPERTY ID: 2124972 North of Denton and just south of Ray Roberts Lake. Beautiful rolling hills with a seasonal creek running north to south through the middle of the tract. Open pasture with hardwoods along the creek comprise the majority of the acreage with a portion under cultivation for winter wheat. Excellent native grasses and the fences are in good condition. Excellent development opportunity. Offered at $5,764,692.

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Bar S Ranch 882± ACRES | RED RIVER COUNTY The Bar S Ranch is located three miles south of Annona, Texas and just one hour east of Texarkana. Breathtaking views, improved pastures and abundant native hardwoods and pines compliment this beautiful ranch. The topography is rolling with native grasses and wooded areas equally distributed throughout the ranch. There are nine stock ponds, seasonal creeks and wetland areas that provide excellent duck hunting opportunities and surface water for livestock.

White Oak Creek flows through this property, holding water year-round and there are multiple large acreage lake site locations. The ranch has been wellmaintained with excellent roads, brush control and rotational grazing. Fences are in good condition. For information contact Dax Pass, c: 214.557.8643 or Patrick Murray, c: 214.679.4341.

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Hartlee Field Ranch 652± ACRES | DENTON COUNTY | PROPERTY ID: 2291645 Hartlee Field Ranch is a beautiful 652 acres approximately 30 miles north of Dallas/Fort Worth. This sprawling acreage consists of an approximately 19,500 square feet under roof home with barns, workshops, and houses the historic Hartlee Field Airstrip which provided flight training for military cadets in WWII. This exquisite home features four bedrooms, six full baths, two half-baths, three large living areas, office, indoor half-court basketball court, storage above attic, oversized six-car garage, and much more to list. This magnificent home has wide planked hardwoods floors, granite kitchens/bathrooms, highbeamed ceilings, and finish out that is to perfection. The upstairs outside porch has views where you can see for miles overlooking ponds, open lush pasture, and Clear Creek. Denton is home to regional hospitals, The University of North Texas, Texas Women’s University and Rayzor Ranch. The pastures are all fenced and cross-fenced with good grasses for grazing and excellent fertile cropland for wheat or hay grazer. This offering is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to own a piece of history as well an excellent investment for future development. Adjoining 172 acres for purchase in addition to purchase of the 652 acres. Offered at $14,850,000. Contact Angie Nelson at 214.794.8945 or Brenda Moerschell at 214.957.9401.

El Milagro 50.28± ACRES | DENTON COUNTY | PROPERTY ID: 2632423 El Milagro Retreat is a state-of-the-art working equestrian ranch located less than 30 minutes from Dallas/Fort Worth. El Milagro was built with the finest craftsmanship and no expense was spared to build the masterpiece. The main show barn is approximately 5,800 square feet with concrete alleyways, 10 stalls, tack room, two spacious living apartments or grooms quarters and storage space for horse trailers, wood shavings, tractors, etc. El Milagro also features a horse treadmill, viewing area in the outdoor and indoor arenas and all weather footing in both arenas. There is plenty of room on the 50 acres for riding your horse throughout the manicured pastures and woods overlooking four stocked ponds and over 20 paddocks. The ranch is also located less than five miles to the beautiful Lake Lewisville. El Milagro is being offered for the first time for $11,000,000 which also includes all of the furnishings. Please call Angie Nelson at 214.794.8945 or Brenda Moerschell at 214.957.9401 for a private showing.

Rancho Santa Maria 79.46± ACRES | GRAYSON COUNTY PROPERTY ID: 2802984 One of a kind, private hilltop estate sitting behind two sets of entry gates with 360-degree panoramic view overlooking 10-acre professionally stocked lake with gazebo, dock and fountain in front of home with pool and spa behind. Main home sits on high 800foot elevation. Two guest homes, organic gardens, flowers, orchards, abundant trees and a professional one-mile jogging road throughout woods and fields along with driving range for golfers. Offered at $1,945,000. Contact Angie Nelson at 214.794.8945 or Brenda Moerschell at 214.957.9401.

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368± ACRES | BASTROP COUNTY | PROPERTY ID: 2304504 The Voss Ranch offers a rare opportunity to purchase a 368-acre tract just 25 miles from Downtown Austin.

This piece of property is 60 percent wooded and 40 percent pasture. The ranch offers fantastic water features including Voss Lake and multiple tanks. Additionally, Cedar Creek winds through and around the property. The main house overlooks a beautiful, well-maintained pasture and pond. The secondary home is historic, and is believed to be built over 100 years ago. Other improvements include a metal barn and covered area, detached carport, swimming pool and deck. The Voss Ranch is a great investment, as it has city water with frontage on FM 535 and CR 219 off of HWY 21 and also offers a multitude of recreational opportunities. This ranch would make an excellent horse or cattle property, or an ideal hunting or weekend getaway. Minerals are negotiable.

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847± ACRES | HILDAGO COUNTY | PROPERTY ID: 844579 This incredible 847± acre working ranch located in the gorgeous Rio Grande Valley only six miles north of Edinburgh off HWY 281S. This impressive estate is well appointed with two electric irrigation wells, one domestic well, three lakes, a number of majestic oak trees, good brush and lots of game plus three magnificent homes situated in a 30± acre compound setting. All three homes, totaling over 20,000 square feet and 10 bedrooms, are located next to an eight-acre lake which is fed by an irrigation well. The homes have been done to the highest standards featuring outstanding architectural details and have been very well maintained.

Please call for a detailed list of all the outstanding amenities.

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RANCHO LOS LAGARTOS 4,046± ACRES | VAL VERDE COUNTY | PROPERTY ID: 2329085 Rancho Los Lagartos is an outstanding hunting property with large numbers of whitetail deer, aoudad and turkey, as well as great quail hunting. The ranch is located just four miles west of Del Rio on HWY 277. The main entrance from the highway is a well-maintained caliche road. The property includes three houses.

The main house offers seven bedrooms, seven baths and two living areas. The second home includes two bedrooms and two baths, and the third home is a one-bedroom, one-bath. The perimeter of the ranch is low-fenced (12.5± miles) and is divided into five pastures, which are also low-fenced. The property adjoins Lake Amistad Reservoir on the west, offering world-class fishing. There are three stock tanks and five water wells throughout the ranch (three with submersible pumps and two windmills), as well as also two small springs. The terrain includes low to mid-level brush species throughout the property. There are several large drainages that traverse the property and provide a haven for the ranch’s abundant wildlife. The ranch has a Level 3 MLD permit, and improvements to the property are well-maintained.

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4715 PANCHO GARCIA ROAD 996± ACRES | FRIO COUNTY | PROPERTY ID: 1623357 This fabulous ranch is what many consider the best that South Texas has to offer. Remarkable improvements include a six-bedroom, five-and-a-half bath main house. A beautiful courtyard with a pool is located next to the main house, as well as seven comfortable one-bedroom, one-bath casitas. Two additional houses are located away from the main compound. The terrain is a wonderful mixture of mature south Texas brush and semi-open pasture land. Two nicely-sized ponds can be supplemented from an irrigation well, and one is surrounded by a beautiful small park with a Texas-shaped hot tub. Wildlife on the property includes whitetail deer, trophy axis, black buck and other exotics, as well as terrific dove hunting. Numerous blinds and deer feeders convey with the sale. An income-producing 900-plus tree pecan orchard is located in the corner of the ranch and complements the rugged South Texas landscape. The ranch has frontage on two county roads and the perimeter is high-fenced. No minerals convey with the property. The ranch is located just one hour from San Antonio and four miles west of Dilley.

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HABY RANCH 602± ACRES | MEDINA COUNTY | PROPERTY ID: 2679241 Incredible example of transition country, with great access, beautiful water and breathtaking topography.

The Haby Ranch offers tons of charm just 45 minutes from San Antonio. With over a quarter-mile of Medina River frontage and over a half-mile of BMA Canal frontage, this property has everything you need to create your dream ranch. A great habitat for wild game, there is no shortage of deer, dove and quail on the property.

If you are looking for great land with great water, hunting and income producing potential, look no further!

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320± ACRES | BANDERA COUNTY | PROPERTY ID: 2464187 In the same family for over 100 years, this beautiful Hill Country recreational ranch is located in the prized area of Camp Verde along HWY 173 just minutes from both Bandera and Kerrville. Gently rolling, the ranch offers sweeping views, a two-plus acre lake and comfortable three-bedroom, two-bath accommodations overlooking the lake and the scenic hills beyond. Interior roads reach all areas of the ranch which has a combination of both high and standard fencing. Cleared of cedar, live oaks cover about 75 percent of the 320-plus acres with some Spanish oak, hackberry, elm and escarpment cherry scattered in. Tall native grasses with standard Hill Country brush and a 30-acre pasture complete the ranch. Abundant wildlife includes whitetail deer, some exotics and seasonal migratory birds and waterfowl. Recreational uses and day trip opportunities abound with this extremely well-located property.

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145 BIG JOSHUA CREEK 49± ACRES | KENDALL COUNTY | PROPERTY ID: 2032000 This beautiful property consists of 49 tree-studded acres and includes a crystal clear creek with a solid rock bottom and nice clear pools of water. A six-acre picturesque meadow near the creek offers terrific Hill Country views from many locations. This ideal recreational property also includes tennis courts, septic, and well, and is conveniently located only 40 miles from San Antonio and less than two miles from IH-10. These kinds of properties are not available very often!

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373 CEDAR CIRCLE 20± ACRES | BLANCO COUNTY | PROPERTY ID: 2382740 This magnificent property is located approximately four miles southeast of Blanco, just four miles from HWY 281, to FM 473W and then to Cedar Circle, convenient to San Antonio and Austin. The beautiful rock main house on the property includes three bedrooms and two baths, as well as a wonderful fireplace and large covered porches. In addition to the main house, the property offers a garage with a cozy apartment above it. The low-fenced property includes frontage on the gorgeous Little Blanco River and an excellent water well on the property provides water for the main house. The terrain is mostly level, however the main house is situated on a hilltop that overlooks the Little Blanco River. The vegetation is mainly hay meadows and large trees that line the river. The property’s abundant wildlife includes whitetail deer, turkeys, doves and a variety of fish. This property truly has it all; a beautiful, well-built home, frontage on the Little Blanco River and fabulous views of the gorgeous countryside.

MEDINA OAKS RIVER RANCH 304± ACRES | BANDERA COUNTY | PROPERTY ID: 1166420 304 acres with crystal-clear Medina River frontage. The ranch is located just outside Bandera, Texas on Highway 16 N. and less than 45 minutes from San Antonio. The property is loaded with live oaks and the large post oaks. There are three houses on the ranch and three water wells. This wonderful property has plentiful wildlife and perfectly suited for horses. The ranch is an ideal weekend getaway and at the same time, a great investment for the future because of it’s proximity to Bandera.

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949± ACRES | LAMPASAS COUNTY | PROPERTY ID: 2781652 This fantastic legacy ranch has been held in the same family for 50 years, and is situated just five miles north of Lampasas. A paved road leads from the gated entrance on Highway 281 up to the fenced main compound; a 3,892-square-foot main house and a 765-square-foot attached casita. The main compound is situated on a low hill, offering stunning long-range views from floor-to-ceiling windows. A recently redone kitchen, updated air-conditioning units, an expansive great room, grand formal dining room, large porch, triple carport and fenced yard round out the features of the home. The property boasts frontage on Little Lucy Creek, which winds across the land for over a mile. This weather-dependent, spring-fed water feature creates dramatic relief to the gently rolling grassland and low hills, and offers and water source for the property’s abundant wildlife, which includes deer, turkey and varmints. Additional water features include five stock tanks, two wells and city water. A wide variety of native and improved grasses turf the pasture, making this an excellent cattle ranch. Additional improvements to the property include a barn with double roll-up doors and a concrete floor, as well as an equipment barn with four bays for storage, and a fully functional bunkhouse currently used as a hunters’ camp. The ranch includes an ag. exemption and some minerals convey according to offer.

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110± ACRES | MEDINA COUNTY | PROPERTY ID: 2871077 The beautiful Rocking O Ranch is located approximately six miles northeast of Hondo, less than an hour’s drive from downtown San Antonio. This ranch has 110± acres of rolling foothill country with a mix of mature oak, mesquite, native brush and open grasses that provide excellent habitat for deer, dove, turkey and quail.

There are three stock tanks on the property, the largest of which is three to five acres when full. The ranch is improved with a beautiful 5,000-plus square-foot rock home with four bedrooms, four full bathrooms and two half-bathrooms. The main house features an expansive patio with a pool, hot tub, outdoor kitchen and fireplace. The property also features an equipment barn and a workshop with a concrete slab, including a two-bedroom, two-bathroom apartment with a full kitchen. Additional features include a grape orchard for those interested in producing their own wine, working cattle pens for your livestock, a solar powered front gate and painted pipe fencing.

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181 SEVEN SISTERS DRIVE 109± ACRES | KENDALL COUNTY | PROPERTY ID: 2134647 Recent $200,000 price reduction. Awesome property with wonderful views of the Texas Hill Country.

Perched on a 1,800-foot hilltop, this rock home features three bedrooms, three living areas, five baths and five fireplaces. The home includes dual master bedrooms, one on the main level and one the second level.

The kitchen is open to a cozy living area with a rock fireplace. Other features include wood ceilings, rock flooring and a nice study. The outdoor areas offer perfect space for entertaining, including large porches, a deck and an outdoor patio with fireplace.

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1956 FM 1554 525± ACRES | JIM WELLS COUNTY | PROPERTY ID: 2134648 Recent $100,000 price reduction. This South Texas ranch is located on the outskirts of Alice, and features a fantastic combination of cultivated farm land (approximately 294 acres of grain/cotton) and thick native brush (231 acres). The property has paved road frontage on FM 1554 and S. Highway 281. Offering farming, hunting and development potential, this ranch is an excellent investment opportunity. Seller will consider dividing property into two tracts. Farmland is currently leased. Yearly income of approximately $30,000.

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SIESTA LOTS 3 & 8 516.63 AND 868.81± ACRES | EDWARDS COUNTY | PROPERTY ID: 2627735 AND 2627718 Siesta Ranch Lot 3 offers an abundance of wild game, both native and exotic. The property’s southern border is adjacent to Kickapoo State Park. The ranch house and improvements are in great condition. Hunting blinds, feeders and water stations convey with the property, and the perimeter fence is in good condition. This is a turnkey recreational/hunting property is wildlife-exempt.

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Siesta Ranch Lot 8 is a perfect hunting retreat with rolling topography. Enjoy amazing long-range views from the property’s hilltops. High-fencing around the perimeter has been recently added, and the land offers plentiful native and exotic game. Lot 8 offers gorgeous terrain, comfortable lodging and a good interior road system. Improvements are in excellent condition and the wildlife-exempt ranch comes equipped with hunting blinds, 1,000-pound feeders and water stations.

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227.34± ACRES | BANDERA COUNTY | PROPERTY ID: 2842100 This incredible ranch in the beautiful Texas Hill Country is perfect for a family or corporate retreat, and is sold fully furnished. The property offers 13 lovely guest cabins and an approximately 3,000-square-foot updated main lodge with a commercial kitchen, as well as an approximately 2,700-square-foot owners’ residence with a guest house an additional spacious ranch house. Staff quarters, an office, and a laundry/linen building add to the appeal of this ranch. A fully-fenced swimming pool and patio also includes a covered part area. The property’s expansive 32-stall barn features a tack room, feed room, vet lab, and a large arena nearby. Trails run throughout the property, and water features include a fishing pond and three wells. 9061 Bandera Creek Road offers majestic long-range views, and is adjacent to approximately 5,000 acres of state natural area.

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Llano Loop Ranch 2,159± ACRES | MASON COUNTY PROPERTY ID: 2790135 Rare is the opportunity to acquire sizable holdings in the “bluffs” area of the fabled Llano River, just west of prized Mason. This offering combines two sellers into a single, legacy-quality parcel, which includes two-thirds of a mile frontage on the rock bottom river, as well as one of the most exotic and unique spring-fed canyons known in this area. Good improvements include two dwellings, extensive pens, outbuildings and water system, and access is tied to a good, all-weather private road.

Price: $9,715,500 or $4,500 per acre

PO Box 860 | 410-A El Paso St. | Mason, Texas 76856

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Rio Vista Ranch 187± ACRES | BLANCO COUNTY PROPERTY ID: 2819433 This new gem includes over one mile of river frontage on only 187 acres, one of the most favorable waterfront/acre ratios we’ve seen in quite some time. The land is manicured, cedarfree with scattered groups of oaks, and nice, large cypress and pecan along the river. A 15 MPH granite gravel road follows the entire river frontage along its length, with every bit of frontage being easily accessible by vehicle and foot.

This land fronts on pavement and offers multiple homesites with clear water views and sounds, absolutely delightful!

Price: $3,272,500 or $17,500 per acre

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Blue Lakes River Ranch 651± ACRES | CONCHO COUNTY PROPERTY ID: 2052240 This neat ranch features 3,000 feet of frontage on the Concho River, which is up to 175 feet wide in this area, and is loaded with fish. Beautiful pecan and oak bottoms line the dirt bank river, and fertile bottomland fields include large stock ponds, pecan orchard and grass suitable for hay. A good ranch headquarter’s provides value and utility, and the overall look is fairly open and clean, though there is adequate cover for deer, turkey and birds. Minerals are available, as are additional personal items and accessories. Price: $1,790,250 or $2,750 per acre

Spring Lake Ranch 297± ACRES | KERR COUNTY PROPERTY ID: 1729735 A large spring complex puts out 40–50 GPM into one of the most scenic and deep lakes in this highly soughtafter Upper Turtle Creek area just outside charming Kerrville. A nice lodge lies along the lakeshore, with beautiful rock patio bulkheaded into the shoreline, providing easy access for kayaks, fishing, snorkeling, floating and private relaxation. Paved interior roads, manicured rolling rangeland and tons of wildlife round out the package. Price: $2,950,000 or $9,932 per acre

PO Box 860 | 410-A El Paso St. | Mason, Texas 76856

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Pedernales River 94 94± ACRES | BLANCO COUNTY | PROPERTY ID: 2637578 This unique parcel includes almost 700 feet of frontage on the clear-running river, which varies from thigh-deep holes to gurgling falls and shimmering riffles.

Fishing, floating and wading are on the agenda here, as this entire stretch of river is easily accessible to vehicles and foot traffic throughout. The uplands are varied, with oak motts, cedar thickets and woody shrubs, plus some land suitable for horses or other large animals. A clean cabin, water well and good road down to the river round out the attributes of this offering. Price: $1,500,000 or $15,957 acre

Allen Creek Ranch 347± ACRES | KENDALL COUNTY PROPERTY ID: 2582837 This sweet spot lies only a few minutes from bustling Boerne and I-10, yet seems to be perfectly secluded and private once one enters the gate at the end of a quiet county road.

A magnificent, four-plus acre lake is the centerpiece, in a gorgeous setting at the base of a hardwood-laden hill. Private valleys guarded by steep, looming hills and ridges are loaded with large oaks, elms and walnuts, and much cedar has been removed. Distant views are had from multiple homesites, and a limestone grotto flows water constantly. Price: $3,452,650 or $9,950 per acre

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El Oso River Ranch 1,711± ACRES | MASON COUNTY PROPERTY ID: 2616611 This fine working/hunting ranch lies on the north banks of the Llano River, smack dab in the big middle of “the bluffs” which dominate that prized stretch of river west of Mason. Good improvements and infrastructure are turnkey, and a fascinating, exotic spring creek winds its way through one of the most stunningly beautiful canyons known to the area. Monster views, wildlife galore, good cover of oak/mesquite and secluded but accessible location yield a legacy-type offering, priced to sell at $7,699,500 or $4,500 per acre.

River Canyon Ranch 447± ACRES | MASON COUNTY PROPERTY ID: 2382754 This rugged but stunningly beautiful ranch lies on the north banks of the fabled Llano River, in an historic and remote area west of Mason. Included is a permanent spring, outstanding native whitetail deer, awesome pecan bottom and staggering long range views of one of the prettiest stretches of live water known in Texas.

This blank canvas includes a secluded, private homesite overlooking the teal river in both directions, and a totally self-contained, spring-fed canyon that flows water much of the time. Price: $2,011,500 or $4,500 per acre

PO Box 860 | 410-A El Paso St. | Mason, Texas 76856

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Cerrito Prieto Ranch 10,844± ACRES | WEBB COUNTY | PROPERTY ID: 2541837 The Cerrito Prieto Ranch is a true heritage ranch just eight miles south of Encinal. The ranch is a highly improved South Texas ranch in the famed Golden Triangle.

Along with fantastic and in part, historic improvements, the ranch boasts a paved runway and excellent road system. The property is also one of the best watered ranches to be found in South Texas, with two Carrizo water wells and miles of underground piping for distribution to multiple lakes and other facilities. Several thousand acres of the ranch have been worked to promote quail habitat and are dominated by mixtures of native grasses. Also the ranch has been high-fenced since 1982 and is managed under the MLDP III Texas Parks and Wildlife program. Price: $23,856,800

French Ingram Ranch 14,035± ACRES | VAL VERDE COUNTY | PROPERTY ID: 1758641 Now $685 per acre! The historic French Ingram Ranch in Val Verde County, Texas has over seven miles of crystal clear flowing Pecos River frontage. This very private ranch has been in the same family since the 1920s and includes a spectacular cut limestone home, custom built in the 1930s. The headquarters area is nestled in a beautiful valley with live oaks, conjuring up images of famed Texas Ranger Captain Jack Hays stepping out to greet a visitor on the screened porch. This is an incredible year-round recreational ranch paradise that offers both hunting and fishing, not to mention exploring for Native American artifacts or pictographs and enjoying the stars at night or the daytime views of the Sierra Madre Oriental Mountains. Price: $9,613,975 2014

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White Oak Creek Ranch 4,337± ACRES | FRANKLIN COUNTY | PROPERTY ID: 2672188 White Oak Creek Ranch is a remarkable, large ranch with excellent recreational opportunities that can not be found anywhere else. Key assets include a 105-acre trophy bass lake, 500± acres of flooded timber and managed waterfowl hunting areas, five lodges and ranch homes, over five miles of White Oak Creek, and several thousand acres in the creek bottom area near Mount Vernon! Lake Romal is the largest lake with over 105 surface-acres and boasts trophy bass fishing, with intensive management and stocking. This ranch has approximately 2,467 acres of wetlands, and about 500 acres of these are managed marsh areas that are devoted to waterfowl hunting. Price: $10,000,000

Recassa Ranch 1,390± ACRES | LEON COUNTY | PROPERTY ID: 2860033 The Recassa Ranch, located in east central Texas, is a spectacular example of predominantly natural woodland, exhibiting a mix of post oak and East Texas habitats.

This very private ranch was part of an original 20,000-acre property put together in the 1930s. A trip to the ranch takes the visitor back to an earlier time with diverse species of towering trees, free flowing streams and great topography. The ranch also boasts the approximately 15-acre Lake Lucy, numerous springs, timber and Texas Parks and Wildlife Department’s Keechi Creek Wildlife Management Area as its southern neighbor. Price: $4,587,000

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Buck Creek Farm 1,352± ACRES | SOMERVELL COUNTY | PROPERTY ID: 2613554 The historical Buck Creek Farm on the Brazos River has not been available since 1880! This is a very rare offering of a large live-water ranch with stunning views, wildlife-rich wooded terrain, and very fertile soils located in an extraordinary bend of the river between Lake Granbury and Lake Whitney. It is located near the community of Nemo, just outside of Glen Rose. The property is manicured and has remained pristine, it offers mature hardwoods and excellent topography. It has not been hunted in over 50 years. The nice improvements include a remodeled 1920’s stone house, guest cabin, and barns. The ranch boasts one-and-a-half miles of frontage on the Brazos river, along with four water wells. It has also historically carried 300-400 cows. Price: $7,100,000

Spanish Bit Ranch 4,332± ACRES | KING COUNTY | PROPERTY ID: 2522154 The Spanish Bit Ranch, located in the southeast corner of King County, is an excellent deer and quail hunting ranch with fantastic grasslands and mixed brush areas. Tremendous relief with canyons and mountain tops offer beautiful views around the expansive countryside. The ranch also provides excellent cattle country and some wheat fields. Price: $3,682,200 2014

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Favoretta West Ranch 1,050± ACRES | MILLS COUNTY | PROPERTY ID: 2637987 Favoretta West Ranch is a 1,050-acre showplace located in the sought after Goldthwaite area at the northern edge of the Texas Hill Country. The highwooded hills, large ponds and abundant deer population make Favoretta West an ideal Hill Country recreational or grazing ranch. The superb seven-strand barded wire fencing, water wells, newly built barns and quality pastures are ideal for folks who plan to run up to 100 cows. A new horse barn and facilities ensure equine enthusiasts have all they need. The main house, a recently constructed 4,000-square-foot custom home with amazing views, as well as a second 2,500-square-foot home ensure plenty of living space for you and your guests. Price: $5,000,000

Boyd Ranch 2,400± ACRES | COLLINGSWORTH COUNTY PROPERTY ID: 2781715 The Boyd Ranch, north of Childress, is absolutely stunning. It is a very rare find on the market with live-water, excellent habitat and wildlife, and exceptional long views. This ranch has been in the same family since the 1800s, and ranches in the area of this caliber, and size, do not often come on the market.

It is no doubt that the next owner who buys it will be one lucky rancher. The ranch boasts 2.5 miles of both sides of Wolf Creek. This is a live-water ranch, with very fishable, clear water and a healthy population of largemouth bass, perch, catfish, and carp. The Boyd Ranch has mule deer, whitetail deer, blue and bobwhite quail, and turkeys. Offered with 25 percent minerals.

Price: $3,360,000

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Escondido Ranch 2,485± ACRES | ZAVALA COUNTY | PROPERTY ID: 2791800 The Escondido is a serious deer hunters ranch and was set up for that purpose seven years ago. The ranch is situated on the western edge of the antler growing red dirt country in Zavala county just 10 miles east of Crystal City.

The entire property has been high-fenced for seven years and is currently producing native 150+ class deer with indigenous food, protein feeders, and an extensive watering system. Price: $4,990,000

Hoyt River Ranch 4,223± ACRES | ZAVALA COUNTY | PROPERTY ID: 2502312 The Hoyt River Ranch is an exceptional recreational and agricultural ranch with over two miles of the Leona River and is located between Uvalde and Batesville.

With rolling hills covered in excellent South Texas brush and rich river bottom soils, the ranch includes excellent groundwater resources and a unique historic home built near the banks of the river. The ranch is not burdened by oil and gas traffic and continues to be a peaceful and secluded property.

Price: $11,875,000

Papalote Ranch 75± ACRES | BEE COUNTY | PROPERTY ID: 1683149 This unique property is located in Bee County, south of Beeville, Texas. It has beautiful mature oak trees, thick brush, and grass filled open areas. There are two dove tanks, a water well, septic tank, electricity with 50 amp and 30 amp service, and a 30’x50’ garage/barn. There are deer, turkey and hogs, as well as, a large variety of game and song birds that use the ranch. The owners are willing to sell a portion of their minerals with the sale of the ranch.

Price: $395,000

Poco Allegro 75± ACRES | CALHOUN COUNTY | PROPERTY ID: 2482144 Poco Allegro offers a rare chance to buy a large waterfront tract of prime development land along the Intracoastal Waterway (ICW) in Port O’Connor Texas. One of the last undeveloped large waterfront parcels in the unincorporated community of Port O’Connor, this property presents a unique and exciting opportunity.

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Brushy Creek Ranch 645± ACRES | ANDERSON COUNTY | PROPERTY ID: 2108667 The Brushy Creek Ranch is a manicured, stunning retreat in the prestigious area known as Brushy Creek, just south of Athens. It’s a valuable, managed timber property with terrific topography, great hunting, and a country cabin in excellent condition. The timber is professionally managed by Burns Forestry and has been meticulously, and intensively, managed for many years.

Price: $3,150,000

Reading Ranch 478± ACRES | FALLS COUNTY | PROPERTY ID: 2730653 Immaculate cattle ranch located in rolling hills north of Marlin. This ranch contains approximately 350 acres of improved grass pastures dotted with oaks and elms and the remainder of the ranch is in thick woods. Several creek drainages cross the property and there are multiple small ponds as well as a 10-acre lake. There is a wonderful modern home on the property set back from highway on hill with spectacular views of surrounding property and overlooks the big lake. Price: $2,400,000 2014

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Red Oak Ranch 414± ACRES | ELLIS COUNTY | PROPERTY ID: 2753307 The Red Oak Ranch property is a fantastic development opportunity! It has frontage on Hampton Road along the West side of the property, and also on Highland Road on the South. Red Oak Creek borders the North side of the ranch, and this is where the Trinity River Authority is installing a 30 sewer line with three dedicated taps for future development. Price: $7,245,000

Thomas Ranch 334± ACRES | MADISON COUNTY | PROPERTY ID: 2836768 Thomas ranch has been owned and ranched by the Thomas family for over a century. The family has been diligent stewards of this Blacklands Prairie property making thoughtful improvements enhancing its productivity and recreational value. The topography is gently rolling accented with large post oak and elm trees. In addition to the improved coastal Bermuda grasslands, the owners have planted several large food plots over the years for wildlife.

This immaculately cross-fenced cattle ranch is setup to carry a healthy herd while also providing plenty of space for weekend recreation with the family.

Price: $1,395,452

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Roxton Prairie Ranch 837± ACRES | LAMAR COUNTY | PROPERTY ID: 2380566 Roxton Prairie Ranch is 837 acres that sit in some of the most fertile Blackland Prairie in the state. The deep rich soil is well suited to row crop cultivation or growing thick grass for grazing. According to the NRCS soil map, the ranch is close to 85-90 percent prime farmland. Roxton Prairie has an established eight-acre bass lake and two all-season creeks, which means there is plenty of recreational potential as well. This ranch has excellent perimeter and crossfencing. Price: $1,653,075

Lazy Y Ranch 1,330± ACRES | MONTAGUE COUNTY | PROPERTY ID: 2436035 The Lazy Y Ranch is a true gem. A spectacular amount of plant and terrain diversity makes every part of this ranch exciting to explore. The Lazy Y is positioned in a unique geographical setting where the Cross Timbers give way to the Rolling Plains making it hard for visitors to believe they are less than 1.5 hours from Dallas/Fort Worth. The abundant wildlife have access to one large, and two smaller, tree-lined creek systems running through the ranch. Rarely can you find such a wild, beautiful and wildlife-rich ranch so conveniently located. Price: $2,990,000

Hico 200 Ranch 200± ACRES | BOSQUE COUNTY | PROPERTY ID: 2858292 The Hico 200 Ranch is a superior, recreational turn-key property consisting of just over 200 high-fenced, secluded acres that are the home to some extraordinary whitetail deer. Over a mile of Rocky Creek dissects the property, allowing many watering options for wildlife. Numerous hunting blinds on multiple food plots and large hay meadows are ready for hunters to encounter that buck of a lifetime. Price: $1,195,000

Buckners Creek Ranch 88± ACRES | FAYETTE COUNTY | PROPERTY ID: 2725212 Buckners Creek Ranch is located in the western portion of Fayette county, near the Bastrop/Fayette county line. As you enter the property, you are greeted by large post oaks and long horns grazing on the improved grasses. Just behind them sits a beautiful Satterwhite log home on the edge of the thick woods. Step out your back door for countless hours of exploring on the many trails around the property. One of the many gems you will find while exploring is Buckners Creek, a predominate creek which originates in southeast Bastrop County then travels 33 miles through Fayette county before feeding into the Colorado River just south of La Grange, Texas. Price: $898,672

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D&B Ranch 1,023± ACRES | MADISON COUNTY | PROPERTY ID: 2716416 Exceptional ranch with 1,023 rolling acres located in Madison County between Dallas and Houston. This 4,965-square-foot home was built in 2012 and features upgrades throughout, 7,600 square feet of flagstone patio with outdoor kitchen and beautiful views. Property features include three 1,000-square-foot bungalows, 47,000 feet of high game fencing, three lakes, 13-stall horse barn, foreman’s quarters, and a 7,500-square-foot equipment barn. This property offers the potential for a variety of uses, ranging from private ranch to corporate retreat to exotic game ranch. Please view the video on this property at www.TXLand.com.

Price: $15,000,000

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Fife Ranch 176± ACRES | MONTGOMERY COUNTY | PROPERTY ID: 2383958 Fife Ranch offers country living at its finest on 176-plus acres located within easy reach of The Woodlands and Houston. This working cattle ranch produced over 600 round bales in 2014. It offers rolling pastures with over 50 feet of elevation change, scattered trees, and several live streams. The larger of the two ranch homes has a den with vaulted, beamed ceiling, stone fireplace and views over the property, four bedrooms, two baths. The smaller brick home offers three bedrooms, two baths, and a den with a brick fireplace. A large barn and several practical utility buildings have proven their worth over the years. All this is less than a mile from Montgomery Independent School District’s Lone Star Elementary School. Ranching, hunting, personal estate, income, investment, or development— Fife Ranch is ready to meet your needs. Price: $3,900,000

Clepper Ranch 165± ACRES | GRIMES COUNTY | PROPERTY ID: 2857930 165 rolling acres graced by a beautiful two-story home with 3,700 square feet of elegant living space overlooking a three-and-a-half-acre stocked lake with pier.

The ranch house features a rock fireplace, hardwood and tile floors, quartz and marble countertops, a formal dining room, large country kitchen, and a sun room.

The ranch also includes a 24’x16’ guest quarters with a large stone patio and outdoor kitchen, a 140’x30’ barn/shop, and a 40’x24’ barn. The land offers a mix of improved pasture and wooded areas, a stock tank, and perimeter fencing. Located on Highway 90 north of Anderson, Clepper Ranch provides easy access to Bryan/College Station, Huntsville, or The Woodlands. Price: $1,800,000

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Ranch in Style!

200± ACRES | RED RIVER COUNTY | PROPERTY ID: 2472359 Beautiful 200-acre ranch located in Red River County, Texas and offering wonderful views over a variety of terrain. Fencing, gorgeous green pastures, 10-acre lake with custom dock and fish cleaning station. Barn, shop with living quarters. Beautiful 2,600-square-foot Austin stone home with three bedrooms, three baths, and open-floor plan. Beauty, function, style… this place has it all! Offered at $1,290,000

1,225-Acre Farm 1,225± ACRES | RED RIVER COUNTY | PROPERTY ID: 2268418 1,225 acres of productive farm land located in Red River County, Texas. Farmto-Market and county road frontage for easy access. This property also offers a three-bedroom, two-bath home. Offered at $2,800,000

659-Acre Farm 2,100-Acre Farm 2,100± ACRES | LAMAR COUNTY | PROPERTY ID: 2464053 2,100-acre owner-operated farm located in Lamar County, Texas. 753 acres are covered by center pivot irrigation. Multiple grain storage bins and barns, shops, truck scales. Beautiful 3,598-square-foot main house plus two additional homes. Working pens, multiple hay sheds. Offered at $7,200,000

1,576-Acre Farm 1,576± ACRES | RED RIVER COUNTY | PROPERTY ID: 2268429 Highly-productive, owner-operated farm in Red River County, Texas. 600± acres under center pivot irrigation with room to expand. Corn, soybean, milo, wheat. Offered at $5,800,000 2014

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659± ACRES | FANNIN COUNTY | PROPERTY ID: 1780710 Main house is a 3,400-square-foot Austin stone, four-bedroom, three-anda-half bath home overlooking a private lake. Second home is a brick, threebedroom, two-bath—ideal for use as a caretaker’s home. The shop consists of a 75x50 closed-in and insulated area with wash bay and a 75x50 covered storage area—plenty of room for equipment and implements. Excellent agricultural property, nice pastures, scattered trees. Offered at $3,155,600

327-Acre Farm 327± ACRES | FRANKLIN COUNTY | PROPERTY ID: 2505931 Located in Franklin County, Texas, this ranch offers lush green Northeast Texas pastures in the peaceful country. The gated entry and long-paved drive leads up to the three-bedroom, two-bath, main house with over 3,000 square feet. There is also a guest house—both homes overlook a private lake. The property has not only pastures but some woods, cross-fencing and a large shop with covered hay storage. Offered at $975,000

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Hoppe Lone Star Ranch 224± ACRES | COLORADO COUNTY | PROPERTY ID: 2557409 Hoppe Lone Star Ranch is your private getaway, the place your stress melts, the sunsets marvel and your senses are overjoyed. This is an exceptional 224-acre property that must be seen—there are not words to adequately describe it! Hoppe Lone Star Ranch showcases high ridge lines, rolling hills, pastures and streams. Meander towards the pool and on to the circa 1810 entertainment barn with the most beautiful interior you have seen!

Proudly offered by Deitra Robertson Real Estate, Inc. for $3,400,000.

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(713) 503–6247 | MGRamey1@gmail.com

San Antonio River Road Ranch 300± ACRES | VICTORIA COUNTY | PROPERTY ID: 2833821 Hunting property that is ready-to-go for this hunting season. Great property near the San Antonio River just south of Victoria, Texas. New camp with barn and walk-in cooler, and two skinning racks with winches. Bathroom and shower facility with storage. Outdoor kitchen and a lot of counter space. The camp is set up for three RV's or travel trailers to pull in and have all hookups. A nice concrete circle with large fire pit to relax around after hunting. Two ponds are on the property and fed by wells. Two new water wells, three practically new blinds and feeders with a lot of great hunting. Plenty of senderos, big trees, hardwoods, pecan, oak and many big bull mesquite trees cover the ranch. New high fence on one side and low-fenced on three sides with a lot of animals. Big deer, big hogs, turkey, dove and other game. The property seems larger than it is and is in a prime hunting location. Some minerals may convey. Call Rick Doak for more information and to set up a showing. Price: $1,350,000

Fulshear, Texas Country Estate 6.57± ACRES | FORT BEND COUNTY | PROPERTY ID: 2793096 Beautiful 6.5-acre country estate located in the fast growing Fulshear, Texas area. Just 45 minutes from downtown Houston this 4,440-square-foot Mediterranean-style home has three bedrooms, three full bathrooms, media room, large outdoor dining area, swimming pool with hot tub and plenty of space to entertain! Beautiful oak trees all throughout the property will lend plenty of shade for horses or livestock. Just to the south of the house is a fivestall barn with tack room, feed room and turn outs, and upper level hay storage.

The property is completely fenced and has a gated front entry with port-acache and an oversized four-car garage. This property adjoins an additional 7.41 acres that is also for sale. Price: $1,450,000

Fulshear, Texas Rare Find!

7.41± ACRES | FORT BEND COUNTY | PROPERTY ID: 2793121 Beautiful hard to find and undeveloped 7.41 acres located in Fulshear, Texas.

This property is unrestricted and offers many oak trees giving several home and barn site options. Just 45 minutes to downtown Houston makes this an easy commute for a country retreat! Price: $481,650

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The Preserve at LaSalle Ranch 2,400± ACRES | CALHOUN COUNTY | PROPERTY ID: 2809240 The Preserve at LaSalle Ranch is found on the Texas Gulf Coast just southwest of Port O’Connor, Texas. Nestled in nature, this exceptional land shelters a lush array of plants and animals—on land and in water. With a diverse population of wildlife ranging from deer, hogs and over 400 species of birds, this property is ideal for the hunter or conservationist. The Preserve at LaSalle Ranch is a rare Intracoastal Waterway offering with excellent fishing, beach and deep water access. The property is adjacent to a wildlife area slated to become a state park. This is your chance to purchase one of the last remaining large, unencumbered pieces of land in the area!

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Lamb Creek Ranch 136± ACRES | KERR COUNTY | PROPERTY ID: 1813113 Gorgeous water close to Kerrville! 2,200 feet of tree-lined Lambs Creek.

The improved pasture is perfect for horses, cattle or farming. The multiple hilltops offer great building opportunities. There is a charming rock ranch house, implement barn, workshop, and two RV hook ups. It offers great hunting with an abundance of wildlife. This is a wonderful ranch just waiting for someone to make it their showplace. Price: $1,679,500

Shin Oaks Ranch 851± ACRES | KERR COUNTY | PROPERTY ID: 2689002 Nice turnkey hunting ranch! This gorgeous Hill Country ranch is located just south of Garvin Store and less than an hour from Kerrville. The ranch is covered in large oaks and is very clean, while still having plenty of brush and cover for the deer. There is a gorgeous wet weather draw that dissects the ranch offering great character and unique topography. Great soil for grass and food plots. Nice three-bedroom, twobath double wide mobile home located on top of a hill with 360-degree views. The ranch offers two wells and two ponds. It is perimeter high-fenced, and has breeder pens. Whitetail, blackbuck, axis, fallow, scimitar oryx, and pigs. Price: $2,495,000

R-C Ranch 203± ACRES | REAL COUNTY PROPERTY ID: 2080426 Perfect hunting ranch! This ranch has been game managed for years to produce trophy whitetail. The whitetail herd has had protein year-round, and the numbers and the buck to doe ratio has been closely kept. It shows when you drive around and see the deer on the place. There is a nice pond on the ranch offering a great place to water the wildlife and nice place for ducks. The perimeter is completely game-fenced, there is a comfortable cabin great for hunters, two wells and a metal barn. It has all a hunter needs. Price: $699,000

Bear Creek 23± ACRES | KERR COUNTY | PROPERTY ID: 1294521 Wonderful property with over 900 feet of both sides of Bear Creek running through the middle of the property. Two improved pastures that are ideal for horses, livestock, hay, or just to look at. The tree-lined creek has been dammed up with a concrete crossing backing up beautiful water that is perfect for fishing and swimming. There is wonderful building site overlooking the creek. It offers great privacy yet it is only five minutes from town. Price: $595,000

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Upala Springs Ranch 117± ACRES | KERR COUNTY | PROPERTY ID: 2268335 This 117± acre Texas Hill Country haven is close to Kerrville at the end of Fall Creek Road, fenced and crossfenced with varied terrain—including horse-friendly pastures—a stock pond, privacy, and views! The spectacular home and the other improvements were created with complete attention to detail sparing no expense. From its all-weather roads, swimming pool, outdoor kitchen and gigantic garage to the wonderful, open split floor plan, gourmet kitchen with top-of-the-line appliances and gas fireplace, man cave, game room with pool table, fully equipped exercise room and the extensive list of amenities in the main house to both of the other residences and the barn/equipment facility, you’ll see quality everywhere you look. You’ll love the views and feel the privacy and tranquility of this magnificent property. Price: $2,345,000

Silver Wings Fly-in Ranch 40± ACRES | GILLESPIE COUNTY | PROPERTY ID: 63650 Silver Wings Fly-in Ranch is a gated community located 20 miles north of Kerrville and 15 miles from Fredericksburg. It features a 80-foot by 3,800-foot paved runway with radio controlled lights. The 40± acres is covered in large oaks and thick native grasses. Great for horses and cattle.

A lot of wildlife for hunting. There are wonderful views and building sites for your dream home. Bring the plane and the livestock. Price: $350,000

Bear Creek Ranch 160± ACRES | KERR COUNTY | PROPERTY ID: 1184449 A gorgeous piece of property that has it all and is less than two miles from Kerrville. It offers 1,700 feet of both sides Bear Creek. The creek has been dammed, backing up beautiful water. The land offers two sprawling meadows, huge hardwoods, and tons of wildlife. There are 360-degree breathtaking views of town, the valley, and multiple building sites. Price: $1,995,000

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Tranquility Ranch 310± ACRES | BANDERA COUNTY PROPERTY ID: 2629288 Water, water, water! This awesome ranch is less that 10 minutes from Bandera and less than one hour from San Antonio. It completely encompasses a beautiful 30± acre lake. There are tremendous building sites overlooking the lake for your dream home. The lake offers great fishing, waterfowl and recreation. There is also both sides of a tree-lined, rock bottom creek. A lot of whitetail and axis. The land is covered in wonderful hardwoods and great native grass that is perfect for livestock. There is an old landing strip that could be refurbished for your plane. A lot of privacy, yet close to the amenities of town. Can be bought in smaller tracts.

Price: $4,650,000

Grape Creek 189± ACRES | KENDALL COUNTY | PROPERTY ID: 1696611 Stunning acreage with a deep four-and-a-half-acre lake along with 2,800 feet of Bear Creek. Rock cliffs accent the crystal clear water offered by Bear Creek. Very diverse property with a tremendous homesite offering views of the surrounding Hill Country. There are several valleys surrounded with elm and oaks trees. Highway 87 and Grape Creek Road frontage, ag. exempt, and an abundance of wildlife. Just eight miles south of Fredericksburg and only 40 minutes from San Antonio. The perfect ranch in the perfect location. Price: $2,650,000

Hard Rock Ranch 62± ACRES | KERR COUNTY | PROPERTY ID: 2387022 A gorgeous Hill Country showplace in Creekwood Ranches. The threebedroom, three-bath Texas/Tuscan home has 3,584± square feet, tile roof, Cantera columns, open floor plan, large utility, office, large master suite, central vacuum system, large rock fireplace, wood and tile floors, high ceilings, mudroom, gourmet kitchen, large patio, fountains, Liar’s pit, Mediterranean courtyard, great views, and three-car garage. The rolling land offers a great hardwoods and numerous wildlife including blackbuck, Armenian sheep, whitetail, and turkey. Beautiful pond and nice barn with stalls. 1,110± square-foot, two-bedroom, one-bath guest house, with open living area, fireplace, and deck. Price: $2,495,000

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Seven Oaks Ranch 82± ACRES | WASHINGTON COUNTY | PROPERTY ID: 2816014 82-plus gorgeous rolling acres! 3,461-square-foot rock home. Plate glass window views of countryside, ample natural light, skylights. Large living room, vaulted ceilings, two-sided fireplace. Spacious country island kitchen, formal dining room, breakfast room. Master suite offers a fireplace. Three-bedroom, two-and-a-half bath, split-floor plan home. Loft and bath upstairs, for additional bedroom. Perimeter-fenced, barn, corrals, two ponds, wet-weather creek, pier. Price: $1,273,180

Post Oak Farm 70± ACRES | WASHINGTON COUNTY | PROPERTY ID: 2452484 This beautiful 70-acre tract of raw land is a rare find in historic Old Washington.

The hilltop building site boasts a stunning view and the huge oak trees offer plenty of shade. A small pond, seasonal creek and heavily wooded areas accent this property and make it the perfect place to build your dream home.

Additional amenities: community water, ag. exemption, and minerals are negotiable. Price: $805,000

Tuscan Villa 45± ACRES | WASHINGTON COUNTY | PROPERTY ID: 2722831 This four-bedroom, three-and-a-half bath, 2,874-square-foot “Tuscan Villa” is perfectly appointed on 45-plus rolling acres in Washington County. Home features formal dining, chocolate marbled/scored concrete floors, granite counters, tankless hot water heater, alarm system, energy-efficient sprinkler system, arched doors and windows and a huge master suite. Two-bedroom, two-bath guest house. Pool, veranda, 40’x60’ barn, pond, creek, and distant views. Ag. exemption in place. Price: $960,000.

McElroy Lane 92± ACRES | COLORADO COUNTY | PROPERTY ID: 2662299 Great ranch in a nice area of Texas! This 92-plus acre tract has elevation and views, two ponds, cattle pens, and a water well. The property is fenced and cross-fenced and mostly open countryside with some woods and large trees.

The wet-weather creek is near the front of the property, perfect location for a new entrance that would lead across the creek and beside one of the ponds to a beautiful building site. Ag. exemption in place. Price: $966,000

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COLORADO RIVER RANCH 891± ACRES | MCCULLOCH COUNTY | PROPERTY ID: 1181517 Ten minutes from Brady. Colorado River frontage and Home Creek running through it. Price: $3,738,000

PECOS HUNTING RANCH 1,032± ACRES | VAL VERDE COUNTY | PROPERTY ID: 920683 Scenic mountains and breathaking views. Abundant wildlife and caves.

Price: $670,800

N . L L AN O RIVER R ANC H 793± ACRES | KIMBLE COUNTY | PROPERTY ID: 920404 Seven miles west of Junction. 200± acres river bottom, 600± acres mountain country. Price: $2,995,000

B I G M O U N TA I N R A N C H 928± ACRES | PECOS COUNTY | PROPERTY ID: 2850079 Own your own mountain! Great hunting for mule deer, whitetail, elk, aoudad sheep, and blue quail. Price: $1,200 per acre.

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PECOS RIVER RANCH 302± ACRES | VAL VERDE COUNTY | PROPERTY ID: 1058599 Abundance of avaliable spring-fed surface water, Excellent views of the Pecos River. Price: $640,000

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335± ACRES | BANDERA COUNTY | PROPERTY ID: 1547552 Evans Creek Ranch is located in the Texas Hill Country about 18 miles west of the town of Medina, just off scenic Highway 337, not far from Lost Maples State Park, in Bandera County. The prime feature of this property is the lake formed by a dam across Evans creek and lined with huge cypress trees. This lake is over a quarter of a mile long and is as deep as 25 feet. It is stocked with bass and catfish and has a floating dock to fish and swim from. We are just finishing clearing some cedar on the far side of the lake to enhance the park-look of the lake area and to develop an alternate home site in case the new owner wants to build a new lakeside home or cabin.

The views of both the lake and the surrounding hills are just awesome from this site. Another great feature is a rambling ranch house that is decorated in the Ralph Lauren style (cowboys, indians, elk antler and wagon-wheel chandeliers, steer hide rugs, and wood-plank ceilings) and has a long screened in sleeping porch as well as four bedrooms and two baths. Most of the furnishings, including lots of great antiques, will be available for sale individually or as a package deal. Adjacent to the house is an old ceramic block barn with a huge high-fenced, irrigated garden that is planted in everything from roses to cactus to peach trees. Other out-buildings include a three-car garage with attached utility room and attached shop as well as a small equipment barn and a hunters cabin. The terrain is diverse and includes about 65 acres of flat fertile land as well as canyons, bluffs, and mountain tops. This ranch would make a great weekend retreat with lots of activities including hunting, fishing, swimming, boating, and hiking.

It would also make a great horse place or specialty farm (olives/lavender/ wine grapes). Price: $2,250,000. Contact Jim Ahern at (210) 410-2170.

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Amistad Cattle Company 895± ACRES | MAVERICK COUNTY | PROPERTY ID: 2780904 Amistad Cattle Company is a 900± acre irrigated cattle facility just south of Eagle Pass, Texas. Eagle Pass is a hub for the importation of Mexican cattle and one of the few ports of entry which can facilitate cattle crossing the international border. Formerly a feed lot, this property has multiple sets of pens and working facilities. The infrastructure is still in place, and aside from the mill, all equipment, pens, scales, water troughs, and working chutes are still intact and working. The highlight of the property is the ability to irrigate over 460 acres through a network of underground pipe being pumped directly from the Maverick County canal system. Amistad Cattle Company has a total of 613.05 acres enrolled in the Maverick County Water and Improvement District which is the basis for allocation of water on an annual basis. This is an abundance of water that is inexpensive and readily available. There is a nice and well-maintained 1,850-square-foot brick home on the property, a large office adjacent to the pens, and multiple barns spread across the property. A portion of the property is currently leased to the USDA, and generates substantial income for the property. A City of Eagle Pass water line runs across the front of the property providing potable water to the home, office, and pens. Above all, this property has excellent development potential. The potential to subdivide this property in the future is great. Being only a few miles from existing subdivisions and the Lucky Eagle Casino (the only legal gambling in Texas) this property is in the middle of the growth pattern in a fast growing area.

Rockin’ R.W. Ranch Batesville Ranch 376± ACRES | ZAVALA COUNTY 376 acres of prime hunting land south of Batesville, Texas. Only 85 miles from San Antonio this property is easily accessible with county road frontage, and a short distance from paved FM 117. Two deep draws cut across the property serving as cover for the large number of game in the area. The property is also bordered by large farms on one side making this not only the perfect whitetail ranch, but an excellent bird hunting retreat as well. Priced to sell.

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89± ACRES | BANDERA COUNTY | PROPERTY ID: 2714150 89 acres north of Utopia in Bandera County with a magnificent 2,665-squarefoot custom home situated high above the Sabinal Canyon. The views are exceptional, the custom home was hand crafted with attention to design and hunting is as good as it gets in any of the Texas Hill Country. Amenities for this quiet and secluded ranch include a socked pond, rustic guest cabin, large shop with additional guest facilities, horse stalls and tact room, wildlife tax exemption status, five RV hook-ups, and strong water well. Features in the home include two fire places, spacious rooms, vaulted ceiling in the family area and 10-foot ceilings for the remainder of the home, granite cabinet tops and custom hickory cabinets. This is a must see ranch if you are considering recreation activities or relaxation in a splendid setting.

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J. Perry Jones Ranch 1,192± ACRES | ZAPATA COUNTY | PROPERTY ID: 1925268 J. Perry Jones Ranch has all of the workings of a fine hunting ranch located in the desirable Golden Triangle. Outstanding vegetation, excellent cattle operation potential, and privacy all come together on this Zapata County Ranch. The ranch has 10 earthen ponds scattered across the property providing water to both livestock and wildlife, as well as having waterlines throughout the property metered and supplied by Zapata County WCID. Price: $2,200,000

La Perla Ranch 1,000.34± ACRES | ZAPATA COUNTY | PROPERTY ID: 2551941 The La Perla Ranch is a 1,001-acre jewel of prime South Texas Brush Country. Located in Zapata County, Texas, it boasts a reputation of having premiere whitetail genetics. This ranch has been featured on multiple Outdoor Channel TV shows. The property has a total of three tanks, one almost 50 acres in size when full, and produces largemouth bass up to 10 pounds. An eight-inch water line pumps at a rate of 500 GPM an fills the large lake on the property. A series of two-inch water lines fill troughs throughout the ranch. A well-managed deer herd, thriving quail population, great fishing, and waterfowl hunting make this a sportsman dream!

Las Moritas Ranch 3,845.15± ACRES | WEBB COUNTY | PROPERTY ID: 1780776 A great opportunity to buy a ranch that is now available for the first time in more than 100 years. Las Moritas Ranch has all of the workings of a fine hunting ranch located in the desirable Golden Triangle area. Outstanding vegetation and cover, excellent cattle operation potential, and privacy all come together on this Webb County Ranch. The ranch has three earthen ponds scattered across the property providing water to both livestock and wildlife. Price: 6,729,013

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Doug Evans/Broker (830) 895–0777 | Doug@TexasRanchLandForSale.com view all properties: LandsofTexas.com/member/139 1209 Junction Highway | Kerrville, Texas 78028

Guadalupe River Ranch 431± ACRES | KERR COUNTY | PROPERTY ID: 1349648 A one-of-a-kind ranch on the Guadalupe River. Lakes, seasonal creeks, bottom land and hilltop views of the beautiful Texas Hill Country. This ranch has a hilltop building site and two water wells. Great location just minutes from the Kerrville airport and 45 minutes to San Antonio. A very rare find! Price: $3,995,000

110-Acre Kerrville Estate 110± ACRES | KERR COUNTY | PROPERTY ID: 2568570 Mediterranean-style home situated above a year-round creek dammed into four lakes with breathtaking waterfalls. The main house has high ceilings and a lot of windows to take in the pool and Hill Country creek setting. Inside a gourmet kitchen that would delight any chef and large media/trophy room. Your guests will feel welcome in a separate duplex accommodation with a large patio overlooking the creek. A lot of Hill Country and exotic game roam this secluded ranch.

Price: $2,485,000

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Sisterdale River Creek Ranch 621± ACRES | KENDALL COUNTY | PROPERTY ID: 2483110 621 acres in Sisterdale, Texas with 1,200 feet of Guadalupe River and Sister Creek both loaded with huge cypress trees, small ranch house and hunters cabin, two water wells, beautiful long range Hill Country views, lush tree filled pastures, Highway 473 frontage. Owner will sell 350 acres with river and 270 acres with creek. Call for price.

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High Point Hills Ranch 920± ACRES | LAMPASAS COUNTY | PROPERTY ID: 2862476 This is a great family ranch in an excellent location. A place where you can see the stars at night and still be within 10 minutes of the city! Lucy creek runs along the upper north portion of the ranch. This creek bottom provides excellent habitat for all types of wildlife. Hunting is excellent on the ranch for quality whitetail deer, turkey, dove and other native animals. A great weekend cabin with a wrap-around porch, two large barns, two water wells, and everal large surface water tanks that are stocked with catfish and bass. The ranch is completely fenced and contains several cross-fences to allow controlled grazing. Good interior roads provide good access to most of the ranch. Listed for $2,714,000

Lake Corpus Christi Ranch 32± ACRES | LIVE OAK COUNTY | PROPERTY ID: 1735442 Sportsman’s paradise on Lake Corpus Christi. South Texas brush teeming with wildlife. The compound was carefully constructed under a canopy of huge, century old live oaks with an amazing west exposure, making each sunset something to treasure. Located 44 miles northwest of Corpus Christi, with access County Road 357. 1,700 feet of frontage on Lake Corpus Christi.

Custom three-bedroom, three-bath home, guest home, workshop, boat house, boat ramp. Excellent hunting, renowned waterfowl hunting area. Ag exemption.

Listed for $1,150,000

The Riverbend Ranch 43± ACRES | BELL COUNTY | PROPERTY ID: 2326236 An amazing live-water paradise on the Lampasas River about an hour from Austin and just minutes from Georgetown, Salado and Killeen. Nice elevated building sites, Huge hardwoods along the river and a well distributed variety of native brush teeming with wildlife plus nearly three-quarters of a mile of water frontage. Several high overlooks along the river allow you to appreciate its natural beauty. But what truly makes this property unique is the amount of generally level, sandy beach along the river to recreate. With the added benefit of end-of-the-road privacy, this is the perfect blank canvas to develop into your ideal retirement home or family retreat. It is extremely rare a property of this caliber and diversity comes on the market and represents a true opportunity. Price reduced to $599,000

Ranch on Baffin Bay 625± ACRES | KLEBERG COUNTY | PROPERTY ID: 2251167 A veritable sportsman’s paradise the unique opportunity to own an amazing hunting and fishing property does not happen often. With nearly two miles of frontage on the upper end of Baffin Bay. The neighbor to the North, just across the creek is the King Ranch. The boundaries along the creek are traditional stock fences which allow for the free flow of big game animals such whitetail deer, nilgai and wild hog. With the abundance of water and natural cover, the property is a haven for bird life including ducks and geese, dove, quail and wild turkey.

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Mill Creek Ranch 156± ACRES | BANDERA COUNTY | PROPERTY ID: 2673076 This amazing live-water ranch is a veritable sportsman’s paradise with approximately a quarter-mile of both sides of South Mill Creek backed up by an engineered concrete dam. In addition there are two incredible fishing lakes that are professionally managed for trophy largemouth bass, hybrid striped bass, catfish and bluegill, you are assured of a great day fishing anytime you go. Improvements include a traditional Hill Country limestone house and guest house, covered RV storage, barn with workshop and walk-in cooler.

The pasture has been well-cared for with the current owner eliminating cedar for many years and the native grasses and hardwoods have flourished.

Rounded out with an extensive system of all-weather roads throughout the property this is truly a “turn-key” live-water property! Price: $2,495,000

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180± ACRES | TYLER COUNTY | PROPERTY ID: 2543544 Located east of the town of Woodville, 100 miles northeast of Houston, Hickory Hill lies in deep East Texas surrounded by lakes Livingston, Sam Rayburn and four national forests. This 180-acre working cattle ranch boasts a magnificent 4,740-square-foot custom home, 17-acre lake and 75-plus improved acres of irrigated coastal Bermuda grass. Additionally five water wells, one-acre stock pond, 8,000-square-foot barn, 1,500-square-foot metal shop, and pipe working pens offer a turn-key setup for cattle and horses. Additional features include equestrian facilities, underground utilities, two additional homes, and hunting and recreational acreage plus fantastic fishing!

Price reduced to $1,495,000

Thunderbird Resort and Events Center 26± ACRES | BURNET COUNTY | PROPERTY ID: 2326687 Surrounded by beautiful high escarpments, Thunderbird Resort and Event Center sits on 26 acres and is located on Lake Buchanan. This business consist of 23 cottages, a 3,900-square-foot newly constructed event center, a beautiful 2,450-square-foot log home, swimming pool, a 14-boat stall marina and fishing dock, office, and several other buildings. This is a great place for weddings, family gatherings, and cooperate retreats. This business has unlimited potential for growth on the 15 acres of undeveloped land connected to this property. Call us for a complete information package.

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Nueces River Ranch

1,285± ACRES | EDWARDS COUNTY PROPERTY ID: 2677765 This beautiful canyon country is often referred to as the “Rocky Mountains of Texas”. The terrain varies from rich bottom land to high mountain tops. Water resources are extensive. The Nueces River, spring-fed creek, and spring branch flow crystal clear water for over one mile. Modern lodge sleeps eight. Hunting is as good as it gets with trophy aoudad, whitetail, turkey, axis deer, sika deer, occasional elk and mountain lion.

Nueces River ranch is a 15 minute drive from Barksdale with frontage on Ranch Road 335.

Price: $2,719 per acre

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Sutherlands Shoe Peg Mountain Ranch

Tom Williams Ranch

191± ACRES | UVALDE COUNTY The Southerland family moved to the Nueces Canyon in 1893. This is the first time the ranch has been for sale. The ranch is centrally located four miles south of Camp Wood or 33 miles north of Uvalde and fronts State Highway 55. The terrain varies from flat fertile land to rolling hills to the top Shoe Peg Mountain. Maverick Creek, a wet weather creek, bisects the ranch. Axis deer, whitetail, dove and turkey roam the land. Only 400 yards from Lake Nueces.

Price: $2,252 per acre

48± ACRES | EDWARDS COUNTY | PROPERTY ID: 1352142 Pulliam Creek, a tributary of the Nueces River, flows through the ranch for approximately 500 feet. There is an abundance of axis deer, whitetail deer, Rio Grande turkey, and wild boar that roam through the property. The Tom Williams Ranch joins a historic 22,000-acre ranch along the west boundary. The house has three bedrooms and three baths. Improvements include a kitchen, dining room, living area, shop and two-car garage. The ranch is located three miles northwest of Barksdale, 45 miles north of Uvalde, 87 miles southwest of Kerrville and 115 miles northwest of San Antonio. The ranch is a great retirement place or a quiet peaceful ranch to enjoy. Owner finance. Price: $450,000

Morgan Ranch

Poquito Grande Ranch

1,239± ACRES | EDWARDS COUNTY | PROPERTY ID: 983552 A nice ranch home and metal barn with apartment is located near the entrance from Highway Ranch Road 674. All areas of the ranch is accessible with a new road system. The terrain varies from tree covered flat areas to scenic vistas of hills and box canyons. The wide canyons are ideal locations for hunting blinds. Whitetail deer and wild turkey enjoy the year-round feeding program.

The Morgan Ranch has 14,000 feet of highway frontage on Ranch Road 674 and is a 20 minute drive from Rocksprings. Additional land is available.

Price: $1,450 per acre

874.47± ACRES | KINNEY COUNTY | PROPERTY ID: 1135402 Poquito Grande is a well manicured ranch with wide valley land surrounded by mountains and box canyons. Water is distributed to water troughs throughout the ranch. There is an abundance of rich high-protein forbs and brush and the pinion pine, live oak and cedar provide ample cover for wildlife. Primary game animals are whitetail deer, wild turkey, blackbuck antelope, turkey and quail. The ranch is located 16 miles north of Brackettville and joins Kickapoo Cavern State Park along the northern boundary. The ranch sells turnkey.

Price: $1,487 per acre

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Eagle Piñon Ranch 2,963± ACRES | HUDSPETH COUNTY PROPERTY ID: 2450171 This high Chihuahuan Desert ranch has elevations ranging from 4,600 feet to 5,800 feet and is a series of canyons, peaks, and valleys, creating a rugged yet accessible terrain. The higher elevations of the Eagles are to the north at 7,400 feet. The Rio Grande valley to the south, with the Mexico mountains beyond, creates extraordinary geology and rock outcrops, one of which, Sawtooth, towers over the ranch. Sunrises and sunsets on this ranch are nothing short of stunning and you can see into the distance for 100 miles. At this elevation there is a lush grassland matrix with brush, cacti, and Piñon trees creating a Davis Mountains appearance. There is a series of 4x4 roads shown on the map which get you around to the various features on the ranch. An excellent well and a new hunting lodge with six private rooms, each with a private bath, make this a comfortable and functional hide-a-way. Price: $2,518,550

Rainbow Ranch 10,800± ACRES | TERRELL COUNTY PROPERTY ID: 2613536 Rainbow Ranch situated at the convergence of three biologically-distinct eco-regions in Texas; the Texas Hill Country to the east, the Chihuahuan Desert to the west, and the subtropical Tamaulipan Brushland to the south, creating one of the most unique wildlife habitats in the state, with abundant mule deer and whitetail. This is not flat plateau country with dissected canyons, but rather an extensive landscape of rolling hills, valleys and long canyons creating very scenic and amazingly beautiful views.

Price: $4,590,000

Ranch on Top 30,547± ACRES | HUDSPETH COUNTY PROPERTY ID: 2779443 Ranch on Top is on top of a high desert plateau of yucca grasslands and steep rims and vegetated canyon heads. Driving north from I-10 across lower desert ranchland, there is a wonderful transformation from desert up into 5,000-foot lush grassland.

The entire western and southern boundaries of the ranch are steep rocky rims, falling 500 feet and creating spectacular views of area mountains. The ranch has been a working headquarters for a huge cattle operation. An 8,400’x100’ paved runway is next to the headquarters with two cross caliche and grass strips of 4,500 and 5,000 feet. Alamo Canyon and several canyons cut into the ranch boundary, providing excellent habitat for mule deer and other game and non-game animals. Price: $22,910,812

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Mills Pecos River Ranch 7,800± ACRES | VAL VERDE COUNTY PROPERTY ID: 2031943 The Mills Pecos River Ranch encompasses a unique part of Texas.

History abounds on this ranch, as it was once part of the settlement of Pandale. The two-story headquarters house was built in 1924 from cut limestone blocks chiseled from cliffs along Howard Draw and hauled by wagons to the building site, creating a classic iconic early Texas home.

This working ranch enjoys more than six miles of crystal clear spring-fed Pecos River frontage, which provides some of the best recreation water in the country. The ranch fronts the Pecos River on both sides for more than a mile and a half, with three natural crossings making this private stretch for camping, hunting, and fishing unique among most ranches on the Devils and Pecos. Elevation is between 1,600 and 2,122 feet with numerous steep carved wooded limestone canyons, as well as gentle mesa tops. The river is divided between rapids, pools, riffles, deep holes, and wide lakes. Price Reduced: $6,224,400

Edwards Draw Ranch 11,420± ACRES | CROCKETT COUNTY PROPERTY ID: 1779585 The Edwards Draw Ranch was once part of the famous 200 section Bill West family ownership. The Edwards Draw Ranch is dominated by native grasses and juniper typical of the Edwards Plateau, as well as a diverse landscape of forbs, shrubs and trees.

Many range scientists have described this ranch, after observing the implementation of Holistic Management Goals, as “unique to the region” with outstanding range diversity.

Price: $5,538,700

Quebec Ranch 12,500± ACRES | PRESIDIO COUNTY PROPERTY ID: 1555099 The Quebec Ranch is Texas cow country at its finest and represents some of the best Yucca Grasslands in the US. It is part of the Marfa Plateau, a mile-high desert grassland of basin range topography between the Davis Mountains to the north and the Chinati/ Sierra Viejas Mountains and Rio Grande River on the south and southwest. The views are stunning and the ranch overlooks the landscapes of the Davis, Chinati and Sierra Viejas Mountains, Capote Mountain and the great expanse of grasslands in between. This is a working cattle ranch which has been well-managed by the same family for over five-and-a-half decades. Price: $9,375,000

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Triangle 3 Ranch 202.31± ACRES | AUSTIN COUNTY | PROPERTY ID: 2678297 This premier Austin County ranch consists of 202 beautiful, wooded acres between Cat Spring and New Ulm. This magnificent ranch is highly improved and beautifully landscaped with significant infrastructure in place. Presently used as a corporate conference center and for the owner’s private enjoyment, the ranch features many nice amenities, including a main ranch home, a caretaker’s home near the Barnmaster horse barn complete with living quarters, and a matching equipment barn. The conference center features an office with an nice apartment and a two-story guest cabin with a screened-in party room. The conference center is built on the shores of the rich, green water of the three-and-a-half-acre lake. Manicured nature trails meander across the lake dam and around four ponds and continue throughout the 202 acres, providing an opportunity to enjoy a quiet, relaxing, stress-free adventure with Mother Nature. Price: $4,225,000

Hill Top Cattle Company 93.8± ACRES | AUSTIN COUNTY | PROPERTY ID: 2631949 This beautiful, rolling 93.806-acre cattle ranch is located just on the edge of town and will allow its owner to enjoy the convenience of being close to Bellville, while tasting the quiet pleasures of country life. This property boasts a main home, a three-bedroom, two-bath foreman’s house, three barns, lush coastal pastures with mature scattered trees and wooded areas for wildlife. An added bonus is the 3,270 feet of Little Piney Creek and 1,680 feet of Piney Creek bordering the back of the property. At 5,100 square feet, the grand main home offers livability and comfort second to none. There are five bedrooms, seven-and-a-half baths, spacious porches, a party room/study with a kitchenette, an adjoining bunk house with bath, and much more. This is one you truly must see to appreciate all it has to offer. Price: $2,800,000

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Rocking “C” Ranch 78± ACRES | WALLER COUNTY | PROPERTY ID: 2790011 Exceptional 5,000-plus square-foot, four-bedroom, three-and-a-half-bath custom home on 78 acres, ideal for gathering and entertaining overnight family and guests. The spacious formal living room is highlighted by 18-foot ceilings and a wood-burning fireplace. Relax in the comfortable master suite that includes a luxurious, spa-like master bath, his and her walk-in closets and laundry. The home also features a butler’s pantry, elegant formal dining, study, a large playroom/media room and a home gym. An incredible chef’s kitchen joins the family room offering a splendid view of the outdoor living area. Live the seasons outdoors around a resort-style pool, spa/hot tub and covered pavilion with fireplace. Enjoy hours of entertainment, watching the sunset in front of a roaring fire or lounging by the pool savoring views of the countryside and wildlife. The acreage is ag. exempt with pastures, woodlands, mature oak trees, large hay meadows, a barn and pond. There is approximately one-half mile of road frontage on Texas Highway 6 between Hempstead and Navasota.

A must see! Price: $2,200,000

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JOHNNY CAVAZOS, BROKER

BRANDON SCOTT, BROKER ASSOCIATE

Johnny@TexasRanchCo.com (210) 260–1897

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Leona River Ranch 440± ACRES | FRIO COUNTY | PROPERTY ID: 2879821 Beautiful turnkey river ranch located in one of Frio County’s prime areas.

Featuring one mile of the Leona River bottom, excellent improvements and fantastic hunting. This property has great brush, good surface water and improved whitetail genetics topped off with a 3,240-square-foot ranch house.

This awesome property is set up and ready-to-go. All the work has been done on this one and now it’s time for a new owner to move in and enjoy.

Live Oak County Ranch

625-Acre McCulloch County Ranch

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1,350± ACRES | LIVE OAK COUNTY | PROPERTY ID: 2857797 This ranch has some of the best wildlife habitat South Texas has to offer.

With the exception of a few large food plots, the majority of the ranch is native brush consisting of excellent variety and diversity. There are two water wells and two stock ponds located on the property along with over one mile of underground PVC water line, which supplies water to three troughs. The hunting on this ranch is excellent, with good numbers of whitetail, Rio Grande turkey, hogs, javelina, dove, and quail. There are seven new tower blinds and 12 1,000-pound corn and protein feeders that will convey with the sale.

625± ACRES | MCCULLOCH COUNTY | PROPERTY ID: 2499700 One of the finest high-fenced hunting ranches located in Central Texas! Home to a top tier whitetail herd, numerous releases from the on-site scientific breeding pens have greatly enhanced the genetics on the property with bucks up to 220 inches being taken. The ranch is well watered with two tanks, two wells and a city water meter located on the property. Improvements are modest but nice, with a 2,000-square-foot, four-bedroom, two-bath home, a 60x80 barn and a 20x30 metal building with walk-in cooler that serves as a game cleaning area.

There are approximately 120 deer in the scientific breeding pens from improved genetic lines that will convey with the sale!

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Branding Rock Ranch 1,529± ACRES | FRIO COUNTY | PROPERTY ID: 2639402 This would have to be one of the most unique ranches on the market in South Texas. This turnkey property offers a magnificent combination of awesome topography, excellent wildlife habitat, fantastic improvements and convenient location. The main feature of the property would have to be the overall diversity. The rolling topography offers beautiful views from on top of the hills and the deep draws and low lands are loaded with thousands of live oaks. The majority of property is mostly native brush with an excellent variety of species. There is a beautiful custom-built 3,800± square-foot, four-bedroom, four-bath ranch house, a 40x60 two bay metal barn with a 20x40 covered parking area and game cleaning area with walk-in cooler. Three water wells and four stock tanks provide an ample amount of water to the property. This ranch is truly a game paradise and there is an abundance of whitetail deer, turkey, bobwhite quail, hogs and dove.

Lazy S Ranch

High Top Ranch

1,124± ACRES | VAL VERDE COUNTY | PROPERTY ID: 2665481 This ranch is a prime example of beautiful West Texas at its best. This property offers awesome views, nice improvements and outstanding hunting. Overlooking Indian Canyon, the view from the back porch is amazing. The rolling hills and deep draws can be seen for miles. This turnkey property is high-fenced and has been under game management for several years. Along with great whitetail, there is also an abundance of axis deer with the occasional spotting of aoudad sheep, black bear, mountain lion and even a few elk.

1,330± ACRES | FRIO COUNTY | PROPERTY ID: 2597132 This is without a doubt one of the best ranches on the market in South Texas!

This beautiful ranch has it all; awesome native brush, big trees, excellent soil and tremendous topography. The ranch is high-fenced and has three water wells, three stock ponds and over 12,000 feet of one-and-a-half-inch water line which provides water to eight concrete water troughs and two of the stock ponds. There are eight food plots throughout the property and excellent roads and senderos are in place. The game is plentiful with good numbers of whitetail, Rio Grande turkey, bobwhite quail, morning dove, javalina, and hogs.

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Chad Calhoun/Broker

chad@jimberryranchsales.com (512) 756-9230

503 South Water | Burnet, Texas 78611

Krumm Ranch

414± ACRES | BURNET COUNTY PROPERTY ID: 1016766 Located on FM 2147 just west of Marble Falls and adjacent to Horseshoe Bay, this beautiful ranch is in one of the most desirable areas in all of the Hill Country. Being entirely highfenced makes this a premier recreational property that has great development potential.

A Fredericksburg-style rock home built in the 1800s, fantastic Lake LBJ views, year-round springs, and a variety of mature trees add to the beauty and charm of this ranch.

Pleasant Valley Ranch

56± ACRES | BURNET COUNTY | PROPERTY ID: 2675806 This is a rare opportunity to own a charming Hill Country home on 56.6 beautiful acres while enjoying the peaceful, pristine water of the upper-end of Lake Travis on the Colorado River. Located in a desirable area among large ranches and estates in the Colorado River valley just east of Marble Falls, this property offers both convenience and seclusion. The home is quintessential Hill Country design. Featuring a limestone exterior with a standing seam metal roof and large porches, the home is situated to maximize the river valley view. The interior features large open spaces and wood ceilings. Even during extreme droughts when Lake Travis may drop to historic low levels, this portion of the lake has constant and deep water.

Frequent hydroelectric releases from Max Starke Dam and large springs just up river keep the river cool and fresh making this property perfect for fishing, swimming and kayaking. As Lake Travis continues to rise with the return of normal weather patterns, it won’t be long until the boat ramp on the ranch can be used to launch your motor boat and jet skis. The land features excellent soil, perfect for growing coastal Bermuda or even a vineyard. Price: $1,700,000

Sycamore Falls Ranch

206± ACRES | BURNET COUNTY | PROPERTY ID: 1793932 This is one of the most dramatic ranches in all the Hill Country. Multiple hilltops afford stunning views in all directions. There is one main edge that runs through the middle of the ranch with deep canyons on either side. The canyons then rise up to additional ridges inside the boundary of the ranch affording even more views. In the canyon bottoms, springs generate forming beautiful Hill Country creeks with hidden treasure such as waterfalls and grottos. The elevation changes approximately 300 feet from the highest hill to the canyon bottom. This ranch is located about 10 minutes east of Marble Falls and within an hour of Austin at the end of a private paved road. Despite this convenient location, the ranch is very secluded and in an area of other large ranches. Price: $1,442,000

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Sycamore Falls 157± ACRES | BURNET COUNTY | PROPERTY ID: 2636319 This 157-acre ranch near Marble Falls is covered with great home sites and views. Situated in one of the most scenic areas in the Hill Country, two substantial ridgelines extend into and through the property affording long distance views in all directions. There are oak motts scattered throughout the property, both on top of the hills and below. A good road system makes the ranch easy to traverse. The fences are in excellent condition. Set up for wildlife management, there is abundant game. There is plenty of cover for the deer, but not so thick that it’s unmanageable. Two wells supply supplemental water for the wildlife. Located 15 minutes east of Marble Falls and within an hour of Austin. Price: $1,020,500

3509 Ranch

100± ACRES | BURNET COUNTY | PROPERTY ID: 2016390 This 100 acres is being cut out of a large working ranch. There are lots of live oak trees and great Hill Country views. The property is loaded with wildlife including whitetail deer and Rio Grande turkey. Great for a home or just recreational use. Only 10 minutes to Burnet and an hour to Austin.

Price: $640,000

Northfork Ranch

187± ACRES | BURNET COUNTY This ranch has over one mile of Highway 281 road frontage. There is a twobedroom, one-bath farm house and a second recently remodeled home. The beautiful rolling pasture has two ponds, a small lake on the spring-fed Mesquite Creek with additional permanent water holes, large oak trees, and an improved coastal field. Conveniently located 14 miles north of Burnet. Price: $4,600 per acre.

Ballard Ranch

178± ACRES | BURNET COUNTY | PROPERTY ID: 1881054 Seclusion is what this ranch is all about. Lots of game with deer, hogs, quail, dove, etc. The ranch is loaded with long distance Hill Country views. All pasture land with ag. exemption. Two seasonal creeks and one nice stock tank. The ranch is mostly scattered cedar and mesquite with just a few nice oaks. Located one mile off of CR 210 and five miles southwest of Briggs. Price: $658,600

Lonesome Pine Ranch

150± ACRES | BURNET COUNTY | PROPERTY ID: 1437571 Lonesome Pine Ranch is a 150-acre deer hunter’s paradise. This ranch has been carefully managed for the last 10 years. The result is a very healthy whitetail population. Secluded and surrounded by large ranches, there is just the right amount of cover, open areas and water to create an optimal wildlife habitat.

A refurbished and completely furnished farm house is the ideal getaway— whether for a weekend or much longer. Add in a tractor with implements, ATVs, deer blinds with feeders and other equipment and this is a true turn-key ranch.

Located on FM 2657, this property is less than an hour from Downtown Austin thanks to the recently completed extension of Highway 183A. Price: $900,000

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Big Bucks Ranch 177± ACRES | EDWARDS COUNTY | PROPERTY ID: 2477798 Located in North Eastern Edwards County. Easy access with highway frontage along Highway 41. Not in a subdivision.

The perimeter is completely high-fenced. There is one big pasture with 10-plus acres fenced off allowing for a soft release or breeder pen. Three-bedroom, two-bath mobile home in excellent condition with front porch. Gazebo along with two extra storage buildings. Good strong water well with year-round pond and two watering troughs.

Electricity and septic. Gentle to level type terrain with abundant topsoil throughout ranch. Abundant large mature live oaks with many oak thickets. Great mixture of cover with open areas as well, abundant grass. Minimal cedar with shin oak and Spanish oak. 20-plus axis, 20-plus whitetail with great genetics, 10-plus black buck antelope, Catalina goat, some sika, worlds of turkey. Tax exemption in place. Turnkey ranch-ready to go! Price: $469,000

All Hat Ranch 48± ACRES | EDWARDS COUNTY | PROPERTY ID: 2568518 Custom-designed, large-roomed home: two-bedroom, two-bath, 400-square-foot drive through garage with opener. 1,000± square-foot great room with large stone fireplace. 2,000 square feet of air-conditioned living space. 2,000± square feet of outdoor living space on a wrap-around fourlevel deck and stone patio with hot tub deck and fire pit. Home sits on a ridge allowing for 20-mile views. Located east of Rocksprings, just two miles off of Highway 41 fronting on CR 230. Rolling terrain with good mixture of cedar, live oak, shin oak, and Spanish oak, and abundant vegetation and cover allowing for great habitat for wildlife. Variety of wildlife—whitetail deer, axis, fallow, sika, turkey, and dove seen on the property. Additional features: ceramic tile floors throughout entire 2,000 square feet. Hot water recirculating system (instant hot water). Water softener system. BIBS insulation system and low E-glass. Cathedral beamed ceiling in 40x25 great room, with large stone fireplace. Designer ceiling fans. Upgraded lighting fixtures. Upgraded plumbing fixtures (jetted tub and separate shower). Kitchen: custom hickory cabinets, quartz counter tops, stainless steel appliances (including wine cooler and under counter ice-maker). All appliances, including washer/ dryer will convey. Outdoor shower. Deck furniture. Separate well house (400-foot well; great water).

Steel barn 32x25 with workshop. RV pad and hook-ups (excellent location for bunkhouse). Double dog pen. One feeder and one water trough. Polaris ATV (low hour). CharBroil gas/charcoal grill/ smoker. Maintenance-free living! Price: $359,500

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Bar M Ranch 978± ACRES | EDWARDS COUNTY | PROPERTY ID: 2809230 This is a rare opportunity to own a ranch that has been in the same family since the turn of the 19th Century. Located less than 15 minutes due north of Rocksprings, this ranch has been well-managed for decades to improve the habitat for wildlife and livestock grazing. The attention to detail on the gentle rolling live oak ranch is second to none. Located in North Central Edwards County. Access is via allweather county maintained road. Good four-foot perimeter fencing on all sides, and a cross-fence dividing the ranch into two pastures. Two water wells (one is new) and four stock ponds and several water troughs provide water throughout the ranch. Remodeled three-bedroom, two-bath, 1,782-square-foot home surrounded by huge live oaks makes a very comfortable lodge. A covered 680-square-foot rock patio provides a spot to enjoy the views. Two-car covered parking garage.

Swimming pool with large deck. Large storeroom in the garage plus a 450-square-foot additional storage shed. A multi-use 90’x30’± metal barn can be used for a game process area, parking ATVs and ranch vehicles or livestock purposes. Great set of livestock pens. 11± acre field is high-fenced and can be used for wildlife food plots and planting additional feed for livestock. A great road system provides two wheel drive access to all parts of the ranch. The wildlife includes great whitetail, tons of turkey, abundant axis. The ponds make for great dove hunting. Ag. exempt taxes. Whether you are looking for a recreational ranch or a working livestock ranch this well-managed ranch is second to none! You must see to appreciate the attention to detail. Price: $1,515,900

Double Star Ranch 630± ACRES | VAL VERDE COUNTY | PROPERTY ID: 1540304 Located in Eastern Val Verde County off Highway 377, five miles West of Carta Valley. Scenic and diverse terrain with abundant live oaks. Minutes from Lake Amistad. Three-bedroom, twobath, furnished main house with garden tub, under-skirting and porches. Windmill. Electricity.

Half-acre pond with retainer wall. New solar powered water system provides water to watering troughs. Low-fenced with large neighbor ranches. Internal road system. Wildlife management plan for past five years. Blinds, electric feeders, bulk protein feeders. Whitetail, axis, aoudad, Rio Grande turkey, blue and bobwhite quail, hog. Price: $1,130,850

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High Timber Ranch 3,400± ACRES | RIO ARRIBA COUNTY | NEW MEXICO PROPERTY ID: 2679098 High Timber is located in north central New Mexico, 11 miles east of the highway 285/64 junction. It lies just below the Brazos Summit and provides some of the best views New Mexico can offer. The highlight of the High Timber Ranch is the abundance of live water. Springs on the ranch provide ample water for seven earth tanks for livestock and wildlife. Three streams run through the ranch, one ephemeral. The two main streams flow year-round—high in early summer and lower in late summer. These headwaters form Rio de Tierra Amarilla which ultimately drains into the Chama River. Small wetland areas are found throughout ranch. High Timber is located in GMU 4 which supports some of the best big game hunting in the west. Elk, mule deer, grouse, black bear and mountain lions all call this area of Northern New Mexico home. The ranch is improved by an excellent quality, easily accessed modern two-bedroom, twobath log owner’s home as well as a bunkhouse. Price: $7,276,000

Sutter Ranch 12,962± ACRES | ELLIS COUNTY | OKLAHOMA PROPERTY ID: 2815542 The Sutter Ranch was assembled in multiple adjoining tracts during the 1920s and has been owned by heirs of the Sutter Family for nearly 100 years. This is the first time this long term ownership ranch has ever been offered for sale.

The ranch is well located between Shattuck and Woodward, Oklahoma, in one of Oklahoma’s most desirable ranching areas. Overall, the terrain of the ranch is considered to be fairly level to gently sloping. The property is considered to be extremely well watered with live water in Wolf Creek and Twenty Five Mile Creek, windmills, electric submersible wells, one solar well and a small amount of pipeline watering. The irrigation wells reportedly have capacities of around 800–900 gallons per minute each. Three pivot sprinkler systems are located on the ranch, with a total of approximately 460 wet acres of irrigated ground.

Recreation, hunting and fishing are major components of the Sutter Ranch.

Whitetail deer and turkey flourish in the wooded creek bottom areas. Quail, dove, and pheasant are in abundance throughout the property. The irrigated cultivated land is adjacent to the wooded creek bottom country. Game management has been a tradition on this ranch and it shows in the quality deer that flourish on the property. The main headquarters consist of a framed house, mobile home (office) and outbuildings. Other improvements include an older, but very well kept frame ranch manager’s home, and a nearly new metal barn. Price: $19,000,000 or $1,503 per deeded acre

S.O. Mountain Ranch 44,804.04± ACRES | SOCORRO COUNTY | NEW MEXICO PROPERTY ID: 2053919 The S.O. Mountain Ranch is located south of Magdalena, in the beautiful Magdalena Mountains of Central New Mexico. The ranch consists of a desirable blend of Forrest Permit, New Mexico State Lease, BLM Land and Deeded Land.

The ranch dates back over 100 years and was once a mighty holding in New Mexico containing over 400 square miles of diverse mountainous and rolling plains country. The ranch is considered to be well watered. Seven total wells charge a pipeline system that runs throughout the property to water storages and drinking troughs. The ranch is located in New Mexico’s Unit 17, famous worldwide for outstanding trophy Rocky Mountain Elk production. The ranch supports a great turf of palatable native grasses. Currently, the ranch supports approximately 500 animal units of cattle, both of deeded, state lease, BLM and forest permit. A new owner’s home was recently completed, and this modern 1,750-foot home overlooks the original headquarters from a hill offering fantastic views from the full wraparound porch. The ranch offers exceptional recreation features and livestock grazing opportunities. The seller has offered to sell, at his cost, the current inventory of livestock. Price: $5,650,000

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16,013± ACRES | ROBERTS COUNTY | PROPERTY ID: 2452573 The East Division of the Pickens’ Mesa Vista Ranch fronts the Canadian River for a distance of approximately 10 miles. This fertile sandy river bottomland is extremely productive and scenic with massive cottonwood trees throughout.

Several hay meadows are located in the creek bottom. The ranch elevates to rolling sand hills and mesa side slopes. There is an abundance of live water on the ranch along with two lakes covering 15–20 surface acres each. Food plots are in place. The ranch has valuable water rights and good improvements.

Besides offering exceptional quail hunting, the ranch boasts outstanding deer populations, turkey, migratory water fowl and fishing in the lakes and creeks.

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Riddel Ranch 11,262± ACRES | STONEWALL COUNTY | PROPERTY ID: 2440160 The Riddel Ranch is very well located east of Aspermont in Stonewall County, Texas. The ranch is in two nearby tracts, both having good access. This ranch has been under the same long-term family ownership for decades and this is the first time the property has ever been offered for sale. The ranch has a very diverse topography ranging from very scenic breaks with cedar cover to productive mesquite flats. The ranch has not been grazed throughout the current year and the native grasses and forbs overall are in excellent condition.

There are several cultivated fields scattered throughout the ranch. The ranch is considered to be well watered overall with numerous water sources, including the flowing live creeks, several seasonal creeks and small tributaries, springs, dirt tanks, electric water wells with pipelines and windmills. Additional livestock and wildlife water is provided by several live creeks which flow through the ranch. Rock Creek flows through the property for several miles and actually heads on the Riddel Ranch. Additionally, there are several small tributaries to Rock Creek which appear to have spring water. The ranch is modestly improved by a hunters cabin, manager’s home and a home suitable for a ranch-hand or day labor, as well as two large barns. Several sets of very well constructed pipe working and shipping pens are scattered throughout the ranch and fences are overall in good condition. Price: $9,291,150

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7,520± ACRES | SOCORRO COUNTY | NEW MEXICO PROPERTY ID: 2456080 The Berrendo Ranch is located approximately 35 miles northwest of Carrizozo.

The ranch has historically been utilized as a cow/calf or yearling operation with the added benefit of outstanding recreation. The Berrendo offers a superb combination of open rolling grama grass native pasture with scattered cholla and juniper ascending to a more dense canopy of juniper. The grass turf is in excellent condition and the ranch has not been grazed in several years. Two electric water wells and pipelines to drinkers provide water throughout the ranch. Additionally, there are seven seasonal dirt tanks. The ranch is improved by a modest ranch house containing three bedrooms and one bath. This home has recently undergone an exceptional renovation and appears to be in excellent condition. Wildlife on the ranch consists of populations of pronghorn antelope, elk, mule deer, and an occasional oryx (gemsbok). Price: $2,556,800

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The Lazy R Ranch 283± ACRES | MEDINA COUNTY PROPERTY ID: 2266738 The Lazy R Ranch encompasses 283 acres of the Texas Hill Country and is situated in northern Medina County just south of the Bandera County line. The beauty of the ranch starts at the entrance with its paved driveway leading up to a bluff where the custom rock home is situated. The entire back of the house is wrapped in porches that overlook some of the most beautiful scenery Texas has to offer.

725 Acres 725± ACRES | MEDINA COUNTY PROPERTY ID: 1728538 This South Texas ranch has plenty of potential with its diverse terrain, road frontage, large neighbors, and proximity to San Antonio. The ranch consists of a small home, barn, and an Edwards Aquifer well, which feeds water to one of the three stock tanks and the water troughs. Also located on the ranch is the Squirrel Creek that traverses the southern part from west to east. A must see ranch in an area known for exceptional hunting and wildlife.

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600 Acres 600± ACRES MEDINA COUNTY PROPERTY ID: 2101469 This is a productive, incomeproducing, irrigated farm/dairy /ranch located in close proximity to town, making it very attractive from an investment standpoint. The facilities and infrastructure in place will accommodate any number of future uses for this property.

Piedra Ranch 721± ACRES | MEDINA COUNTY | PROPERTY ID: 2509646 The high-fenced Piedra Ranch is located in an area of Southern Medina County which is known for abundant wildlife and exceptional hunting. The varied terrain, great location, and ease of access makes this a must see ranch.

175 Acres 175± ACRES MEDINA COUNTY PROPERTY ID: 2753361 This is a low-fenced ranch with a lot of potential. It features great brush, water, wildlife, topography and locale. Brush species include your typical South Texas mix, in addition to some great live oaks.

Wildlife includes whitetail deer, hogs, turkeys, varmints, dove, quail, and ducks. Topography ranges from creek-bottom to a hilltop with an amazing view. The location is outstanding! Only 25 minutes from San Antonio, makes for an easy drive.

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Mark Meek/Broker | (830) 257–8881 | Info@MeekRanchSales.com

Medina Texas Estate 317.91± ACRES | BANDERA COUNTY PROPERTY ID: 2440186 317.91 acres near Medina with an exquisite limestone rock home and guesthouse perched atop 2,000 feet of Texas Hill Country mountains with Colorado-type views for miles and miles! Large oaks, pond, deep soil and very suitable for horses. This very nice turnkey package is only 20 minutes from Kerrville! Price: $2,500,000

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Rock Canyon Ranch 13,200± ACRES | VAL VERDE COUNTY A highly improved turnkey hunting ranch with an immaculate 7,000± square-foot 10-bedroom hunting lodge, owner’s house, skeet range and many more improvements. Huge Boone and Crockett Whitetail and many trophy exotics. Located in Val Verde County northeast of Del Rio, Texas. This ranch is currently being co-brokered with Les Meyer, Broker, Tejas Properties. Price: $1,411 per acre 236

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Intracoastal Waterway Oasis 55.1± ACRES | MATAGORDA COUNTY | PROPERTY ID: 1095074 AND 1095082 Located on the Intracoastal Waterway five miles east of Matagorda, this 55.1-acre tract with 1,468 feet of waterfront is within sight of the land cut into East Matagorda Bay providing easy access in some of the Texas coast’s premier bay fishing. A short boat ride through the Matagorda jetties to the Gulf of Mexico offers excellent offshore fishing. If you have ever dreamed of building your own secluded waterfront paradise and want to get away from the overcrowding that has become prevalent along the Texas coast, this is the spot. Imagine your compound with enough room for an airstrip, where you can spend time with family and friends, entertain business associates or just relax while watching sea birds at sunset. If you’re interested in developing this property, Army Corps of Engineer permits are in place. Price: $1,995,000

Edward County High-Fenced Hunting Ranch 1,231.64± ACRES | EDWARDS COUNTY | PROPERTY ID: 2870486 This 1,231.64-acre high-fenced hunting ranch offers end-of-road seclusion amidst Hill Country beauty. Cliffs, oak trees, dry creek bed, three submersible wells, a pond and an old set of pens all meander throughout the scenic road system. Whitetail deer, turkey, axis, bobcats, hogs and dove provide plenty of hunting opportunities throughout the year. Situated in the rolling hills at the end of the road off Highway 41. Price: $1,995,260

Trinidad Ranch 800± ACRES | EDWARDS COUNTY | PROPERTY ID: 2869739 This high-fenced, fully-stocked ranch offers an opportunity to experience your own exciting hunting operation. With roads, three water wells, three ponds, blinds, feeders, certified breeding pens, lodge and landing strip already in place, it makes it ready-to-go. The ranch supports an abundance of axis, black buck, oryx, aoudad, fallow, elk, red deer, seika and genetically improved whitetail deer creating hunting memories not soon forgotten. Conveniently located between Garven Store and Rocksprings off Highway 41. Price: $1,356,000

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www.Tejas-Properties.com Les Meyer, Broker tejas.sales@sbcglobal.net (830) 563-9911 PO Box 236 | Bracketville, Texas 78832

KC Ranch 17,984± ACRES | KNOX COUNTY | PROPERTY ID: 913616 This fantastic 18,000-acre ranch has it covered! Over 50 tanks up to several acres, 10 miles both sides of the South Wichita, high-fenced, great lodge and more. South Texas whitetail were imported several years back and have done well, with some deer in the 180 class. West Texas mule-deer from Brewster County were also brought in and are huge! Cattle are knee-deep in grass with several pastures, good pens with scales and many water troughs. Good farmland in the bottom and quail are making a comeback plus hunting for waterfowl in winter make this one of the premier ranches in North Texas. Priced at $25,000,000. Plus can divide as small as 1,000 acres.

Highway 90 Ranch 641± ACRES | KINNEY COUNTY PROPERTY ID: 2809252 Located two miles east of Brackettville on Highway 90. This high-fenced ranch is ready to hunt. The improvements include deer pens, five wells, two fields with pivots, a good rock-bottom tank and more. The whitetail herd has been improved and exotics have been added. Come look!

Price: $1,850 per acre.

Brite Ranch 2,141± ACRES | VAL VERDE COUNTY PROPERTY ID: 125937 Not very often does a ranch like this come available. 2,141 acres adjacent to Amistad National Park and Lake Amistad with livewater in oak covered canyons. Whitetail, quail, dove and some exotics make the ranch a hunting paradise. Good lodge, fields that can be irrigated, good fencing, and views that will take your breath away are a few of the bonuses of the property. The ranch also has the potential for mining gravel and limestone with a railroad running along one boundary or developing into a subdivision, being only 10 minutes from Del Rio. Priced at $1,800 per acre.

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Hill County Ranch 554± ACRES | REAL COUNTY | PROPERTY ID: 1886645 Great ranch, in the highly sought after area of Vance, Texas. This property is only a couple hundred yards down an easement road from the highway, making it very easy to access. There is electricity, a well, small springs, good road and great tree cover. The animals include whitetail, axis, turkey, and aoudad, all on a great low-fenced ranch.

Game managed for years, the ranch can be divided into two fantastic hunting properties. $1,795 per acre or $1,995 per acre in parcels.

End of Road Ranch 917± ACRES | KINNEY COUNTY | PROPERTY ID: 2612166 Wonderful fenced and improved ranch northwest of Brackettville.

Ready to hunt this year with stands, feeders and small camp house.

This property is Western Hill Country at its best with views that are incomparable. Great whitetail hunting with some free-ranging exotics, quail, dove and turkey. Electricity in place with two water wells, storage building and carport. Best priced land in the county at $995 per acre.

Arrowhead Ranch 435± ACRES | KINNEY COUNTY | PROPERTY ID: 2121270 This fine ranch is located 15 miles north of Brackettville or 30 miles northwest of Uvalde, Texas. Arrowhead Ranch offers the outdoorsman unlimited activities, from hunting and hiking to locating Indian artifacts.

Forget about unimproved access, there is over a mile of paved highway frontage with a beautiful rock and cedar entrance, a great five-bedroom lodge and so much more. Arrowhead Ranch offers great native and exotic game on a high-fenced hunting and recreational ranch at a reasonable price. Price: $1,500,000

Western Fort Bend Farm 104± ACRES | FORT BEND COUNTY | PROPERTY ID: 2627823 104 acres of some of the best farmland to be had. This farm has been in the same family for many years and they have decided to sell. Only a few miles south of Highway 59 with frontage on FM 360 gives the new owner the ability to divide this property or use as a ranch with a short commute into Sugarland or Houston. If your are looking for a quality investment look no further. Priced at $10,000 per acre.

Spofford Ranch 1,392± ACRES | KINNEY COUNTY | PROPERTY ID: 2809245 This ranch, being on the edge of the golden triangle, has the ability to grow huge whitetail. Located only 13 miles south of Brackettville and 17 miles north of the Maverick County Airport, it is ideally situated for convenience. Highway frontage, great mesquite, several tanks and big deer make this ranch a must see. Price: $1,325 per acre.

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Andy Flack/Broker Andy@HomeLandProp.com | (936) 295–2500 1600 Normal Park | Huntsville, Texas 77340

Industry Production Timberland

Core Timberland

852± ACRES | LIBERTY COUNTY | PROPERTY ID: 2859554 This production tract has excellent access with major frontage. Wooded with merchantable pine and hardwood. For investment forestry. Rail frontage.

Recreation. Many opportunities for current or future development. Low taxes, low regulations, and no zoning. Price: $2,130,000

408.58± ACRES | TYLER COUNTY | PROPERTY ID: 2862172 Core timberland tract wooded with pre-merch and merchantable pine and hardwood. Recreation. For investment forestry. Many opportunities for current or future development. Low taxes, low regulations, and no zoning.

Price: $939,734

Rare Earth Recreation Timberland 651± ACRES | POLK COUNTY | PROPERTY ID: 2718795 Great recreational timberland tract in the Rock Island area that’s wooded with merchantable pine and hardwood. Price: $1,529,850

535± ACRES | LIBERTY COUNTY | PROPERTY ID: 2771499 Pasture ranch with easy access and native, improved grass. Crops or cattle— pick your agriculture. The ranch is bisected by water (drainage) canals and fed by Long Island Creek. This is a rare offering from a long-time ownership.

Price: $1,337,500

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Corlay Ranch 425± ACRES | WALKER COUNTY | PROPERTY ID: 2869696 This 425-acre high-fenced ranch offers rare East Texas rolling hills, beautiful vistas, accommodating four-bedroom lodge (3,593 square feet), 18-plus acres of lakes and ponds, numerous barns, deer pens and working facility. Unique to Corlay Ranch, it has a MLDP Level 3 with superior Boone and Crockett genetics in the 300-inch class. Highly improved jiggs/coastal Bermuda hay meadows, along with the deer breeding operation, offers a nice income. Whether you love deer hunting, duck hunting, or fishing for hybrid Florida bass; come enjoy it all on this well-manicured ranch! Price: $5,250,000

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27 Acres 27± ACRES | REAL COUNTY | PROPERTY ID: 117888 Situated north of Leakey on Ask Creek is a beautiful 2,000± square-foot home, with a fishing pond, store room, two-car carport, and a barn with lining quarters. Ash Creek runs through the property creating seasonal water, and the property has county road frontage creating easy access to down town Leakey. There are numerous oaks, an abundance of game and fantastic views.

Seller will divide. Price: $349,000

197 Acres 197± ACRES | REAL COUNTY | PROPERTY ID: 2580564 Located in the hills near Leakey in Real County, this ranch offers fantastic hunting and recreation for everyone! Great trees and hills create beautiful views of the Texas Hill Country. The ranch has a very nice and modern 2,000± square-foot home with large living area with fireplace, full kitchen, and four bedrooms plus a very spacious loft. The outside of the home offers very abundant porches, patio and fire pit for family gathering on cool spring nights. Game rack, cleaning station and several out buildings are also included. Price: $788,000

300 Acres 300± ACRES | REAL COUNTY | PROPERTY ID: 2638537 This little ranch is nestled in a beautiful valley surrounded by large oaks and rolling hills. Great hunting tract or could be nice residential property. Electricity.

Price: $2,350 per acre

2.4 Acres 2.4± ACRES | REAL COUNTY | PROPERTY ID: 2638534 Property includes both sides of the East Prong Frio River with home just north of Leakey. There is a water well and secluded deep crystal clear East Prong Frio River with many fish and good tree canopy. The property has a house that is fully furnished with five rooms and one bath. Includes private patios with furniture and has a concrete covered carport. Property has excellent rental potential. Price: $397,000

Lem Lewis, Broker (210) 275–3551 | Lem@LandAndRanchRealty.com

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1,000± ACRES | REAL COUNTY | PROPERTY ID: 2638546 This ranch is located in a nice valley with large views of the Hill Country. Wildlife on this ranch includes whitetail and axis, turkey, and numerous exotic hoof stock as well as other smaller game native to the Texas Hill Country. Property has electricity and good water well. Price: $2,195 per acre

2,000± ACRES | REAL COUNTY | PROPERTY ID: 2638534 This unique ranch has electricity well, and cabin and paved road frontage.

Taking a ride through the property will reveal numerous hidden pastures, views and large oak trees that must be seen to be appreciated. Owner will divide.

Price: $2,195 per acre

1,650 Acres 1,650± ACRES | REAL COUNTY | PROPERTY ID: 2638506 Great ranch with electricity and gorgeous views. Great trees and spring give this property its unique personality. Ranch is close to Leakey and is accessed by paved frontage. Price: $2,195 per acre

500 Acres 500± ACRES | REAL COUNTY | PROPERTY ID: 2638492 This beautiful ranch located near Leakey has some amazing views with rolling terrain and nice oak trees. Electricity crosses the property there is easy access. Price: $2,250 per acre

382 Highway 83 South | Leakey, Texas 78873 view all properties: LandsofTexas.com/member/11013

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www.NixonRealEstate.com Vic Nixon, Broker | (830) 997–2187 vic@nixonrealestate.com 1325 East Main Street | Fredericksburg, Texas 78624

Great Hunting Ranch 208± ACRES | GILLESPIE COUNTY PROPERTY ID: 2818347 208 acres northeast of Harper, good oak trees with lots of shinoak, cabin, two water wells, older manufactured home, two-car garage and storage buildings, paved road frontage, good deer and turkey hunting. Call Vic Nixon (830) 889–2325. Price: $995,000

Mountaintop Building Site 89.45± ACRES | GILLESPIE COUNTY PROPERTY ID: 2266719 89 acres with paved county road frontage, great deer and turkey hunting, several building sites with views for miles. Call Vic Nixon (830) 889–2325. Price: $639,567

Pedernales Riverfront Property 8.22± ACRES | GILLESPIE COUNTY PROPERTY ID: 2628919 8.22 acres overlooking the Pedernales Rvier with a 3,300-square-foot rock home with four bedrooms and three full baths.

Large living room with gas fireplace, fully equipped kitchen with breakfast area, formal dining, office, two bedrooms and two baths downstairs, large back porch, both sides of river. Call Vic Nixon (830) 889–2325.

Price: $950,000

Historic Rock Home on Acreage 25.31± ACRES | GILLESPIE COUNTY PROPERTY ID: 2792618 Only four miles to Fredericksburg, 1800s German Rock Home with additions, over 3,500 square feet, two large living areas with fireplaces, spacious kitchen, three bedrooms, three baths on 25.31 acres with pond, improved grasses and barn. Call Ed Wagner (830) 383–9200. Price: $849,000

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Recreation Tract 68.37± ACRES | GILLESPIE COUNTY PROPERTY ID: 2803355 Beautiful tract with three ponds, one of which is around three acres when full, new water well just drilled 60 GPM at 185 feet, ag. exempt, whitetail, axis, turkey, and hogs. Call Scott Frantzen (830) 459–6036.

Price: $717, 885

Pedernales River 55.54± ACRES | GILLESPIE COUNTY PROPERTY ID: 2722580 Four miles from city, over 1,000 feet of river, partially treed, good sandy loam soil, paved county road, ag. exempt.

Call Scott Frantzen (830) 459–6036.

Price: $895,000

Llano Horse Ranch 30.9± ACRES | LLANO COUNTY PROPERTY ID: 2718796 Rock home with 2,451 square feet, three bedrooms, two baths with large open kitchen and living room with fireplace, pecan wood floors, 4,500-square-foot, 10-stall horse barn and 150’x300’ arena plus a gated entrance. Call Scott Frantzen (830) 459–6036. Price: $650,000

Vintage Oaks Drive 30± ACRES | GILLESPIE COUNTY PROPERTY ID: 1970041 30 acres with 60 GPM water well, building pad, stock pond, large post oak and live oak trees, and nice power gate. Can add 25 acres adjoining for horses or vineyard. Call Vic Nixon (830) 889–2325.

Price: $325,000

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Anthony Simpson anthony@simpsonranches.com | (210) 854–6365

www.SimpsonRanches.com

Suenos Ranch 998± ACRES | DUVAL COUNTY Located just minutes Southeast of Freer, Texas, this highfenced hunting ranch has been game managed for 10 years. Improved genetics have been introduced over that time period. A new beautiful home that features split master suites provides lodging. A 1,500-foot metal storage with concrete floor, game cleaning station and blinds and feeders all convey. Rolling terrain with excellent brush, two nice tanks and a good road system make this one ready-to-go.

Myers Ranch 1,835± ACRES | DUVAL COUNTY PROPERTY ID: 2266986 Big deer, plentiful quail and a nice new lodge are what can be found on this South Texas gem. Topography is rolling with large draws and excellent brush. This property has been intensively managed for eight years and it shows.

Two water wells and several tanks water the ranch. A grain silo, barns, cooler and a unique older ranch home complete the headquarter.

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Dos Hermanas 1,274± ACRES | FRIO COUNTY | PROPERTY ID: 1021039 This ranch is located in one of the most highly sought after areas of South Texas.

Brush diversity is top notch and the deer herd is excellent. Additional wildlife includes axis deer and black buck antelope. Quail populations are strong and the dove hunting phenomenal. The ranch headquarters have been recently improved and expanded. Lodge will sleep 14. The ranch is well-watered and water lines feed all tanks. Call Anthony for details.

Alexandra Ranch 80± ACRES | KENDALL COUNTY | PROPERTY ID: 2796008 Spectacular Hill Country estate property with 30-mile views. Old world-style with owner’s retreat and two guest casitas attached by a breezeway make this property an entertainer’s delight. Minutes to Boerne, Comfort and Fredericksburg. Manicured grounds, a solar system, three fireplaces, outdoor kitchen, foreman’s home, pool, hot tub, wolf and sub-zero appliances and the list goes on. Call Anthony for more information.

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Blanco River Ranch 665± ACRES | BLANCO COUNTY | PROPERTY ID: 2700794 Make this sumptuous, resort-style property your personal estate or private weekend retreat away from the daily grind of the big city! This breathtaking 665 acres with views of the Blanco River Valley is an easy drive from San Antonio or Austin. Newly remodeled and expanded in 2013, the California vintner-style compound sleeps up to 20 and is fully stocked with luxe amenities and beautiful upgrades. The main home is 3,900 square feet with a threecar garage and workshop, plus a large guest house attached by covered porches. Gather family and friends around the lovely outdoor fireplace, swimming pool, barbecue pavilion, or on the dock to dip your toes in the water of the private lake. The compound area is lushly landscaped, irrigated, and high-fenced and boasts age old oak trees and established fruit orchard and olive groves. A foreman’s house, worker’s cabin, andw a three-stall horse barn with an office and tack room, as well as fencing and cross-fencing throughout the property make this property ideal for managing a working ranch. 80 acres of irrigated coastal fields and ample water is provided by eight water wells and a stocked catfish tank. With something for everyone, this property is ideal for any nature lover, hunter, angler, aspiring vintner, rancher, or anyone who wants to enjoy the good life in grand fashion. Price: $9,950,000

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Becky Adkins, Agent (512) 751-0533 “Personalized Service, Discriminating Clients”

Lewis Ranch 100± ACRES | BLANCO COUNTY | PROPERTY ID: 2660441 This lovely remodeled ranch in the Texas Hill Country touts huge live oaks throughout property and has been extensively cleared of cedar for a stunning view of the valley. Three homes including a guest house and hunter’s cabin containing amenities are also located on site. The main home is a three-bedroom, two-bath ranch with approximately 2,200 square feet. It has been totally remodeled with granite countertops throughout and walk-in-showers with high-end finishes. Amenities include huge walk-in closets, a wood-burning fireplace, four ceiling fans, new HVAC, large covered patio with gas grill, a huge laundry facility and utility outside as well as one inside off the kitchen—great for cleaning up after hunting and overflow area for parties and storage. An antique split-rail fence surrounds the grounds. There is a large covered carport and additional area for parking on the premises. The ranch is low-fenced and has a crushed asphalt drive. The automatic gate is solar powered. A fully-fenced 800-square-foot guesthouse is located right behind the main home and is shaded by a humongous oak tree. It is one-bedroom, onebath with a large walk-in closet, which could be used as another bedroom. The guesthouse has also been remodeled and has new HVAC, fireplace and a metal roof matching the main house. There is a large storage shed with metal roof behind the house containing one of the water tanks as well as providing more space on site. The two water storage tanks on location are 3,000 gallons each. There are two small stock tanks on the property and three water wells. A 1,200-square-foot remodeled hunters cabin with three bedrooms, two baths contains beautiful cypress woodwork and has new HVAC, tile floors, stainless steel kitchen, bar, fireplace and also a metal roof.

An old smokehouse is right out the back door. There is a high-fenced garden of approximately one to two acres between the main ranch house and hunter’s cabin for added privacy. A site built storage shed and a shed for tractor, trailers and equipment are nearby.

This ranch can be combined with the adjoining 587 acres to create a showplace ranch or development in a highly coveted location.

Price reduction—now $1,750,000

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PERRY BUSHONG REAL ESTATE

Double B Ranch 685± ACRES | BROWN COUNTY PROPERTY ID: 2472436 This great ranch is in Brown County, half a mile north of the Colorado River and the McCulloch\Brown County line on Highway 377. Fabulous three-bedroom, two-bath home with recycled tin ceiling, stained concrete floors, beautiful cedar bar and counter tops and amazing views. The ranch is turnkey for great hunting with seven fiberglass deer blinds, three tripods and nine 400-pound spin feeders. There are eight stock tanks with the largest being about three acres when full; two are stocked with perch and bass for fishing fun!

The terrain is a great combination of fields, wooded areas and hilltops. Price: $1,951,196

Piñon Pass Ranch 4,048± ACRES | EDWARDS COUNTY | PROPERTY ID: 2500897 Piñon Pass Ranch headquarters has a good, “ranchy” feel to it. It consists of a wonderful three-bedroom, two-bath ranch house built from native rock, surrounded by a fence of the same rock; a charming onebedroom, one-bath rock guesthouse with sleeping porch and fireplace; an old commissary, converted to a game room; shearing barn; large hay barn; tool shed/tack room. The ranch is hunting ready for whitetail, axis, turkey, aoudad and fallow with a year-round protein feeding program, 10 5x5 insulated deer stands, 12 1,000-pound spin feeders, 10 2,000-pound protein feeders and three water wells with eight miles of new water lines. Miles of new and improved roads. Great price plus solid hunting equals a super buy! Price: $4,857,600 or $1,200 per acre

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Sycamore Cliffs Ranch

722± ACRES | KINNEY COUNTY PROPERTY ID: 1731158 Here is a great hunting opportunity for whitetail, turkey, quail, dove, aoudad and axis for the great price of $999 per acre! This ranch is made up of secluded headers feeding into draws, and a mix of topography and vegetation with a long valley on the north and a long ridgeline with stunning views on the south, all covered in South Texas and Hill Country brush. A well and concrete tank are present. Owner financing is available. Price: $721,278

San Saba River Ranch 480± ACRES | MCCULLOCH COUNTY PROPERTY ID: 2810016 This turnkey ranch truly has it all! Almost one mile of the beautiful San Saba River, a very cool, three-bedroom, roughhewn log cabin nestled under tall shade trees overlooking the river, three strong water wells, springs, a fertile field for crop income or fantastic dove hunting, great deer hunting, big views and a large pond! Located only 20 minutes from Mason and 10 minutes from Brady. Co-brokered with Cross Bar Land Company. Price: $2,496,000

Kickapoo Valley Ranches

1,477± ACRES KINNEY AND EDWARDS COUNTIES PROPERTY ID: 2789799 Truly beautiful country that is a great combination of ridgelines, big hills and wide valleys! There are numerous building sites to choose from with a building pad already in place on top of a hill with phenomenal views! There is a total of 1,477 acres available, which is also available in smaller acreages (from 300–400 acres or combinations thereof).

Electricity is present and a road system makes the rugged terrain accessible. Enjoy hunting whitetail, some exotics, turkey and dove! Located about 40 minutes south of Rocksprings and 20 minutes north of Brackettville. Prices start at: $1,200 per acre

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Coalson Real Estate Mac A. Coalson, Sr. Broker | www.Coalson.com Mac@Coalson.com | (817) 925–3333 McAllen Coalson, Broker | (817) 991–8300 view all properties: LandsofTexas.com/member/32197

Silverado South Ranch 995± ACRES | HOOD COUNTY | PROPERTY ID: 2659152 This ranch is located between Weatherford and Granbury, Texas. With an outstanding location for future development with FM 51 and Lake Country Drive frontage. The ranch features rolling to heavily rolling terrain with scattered live oaks, post oaks, improved and native grasses, game cover, four and 16-acre lakes, three homes, water wells, excellent fencing, stone entry, and some minerals.

Price: $8,300 per acre

Fortune Bend 4,416.58± ACRES | PALO PINTO COUNTY | PROPERTY ID: 1544301 This awesome river paradise lays in a tear drop south of Possum Kingdom Lake with approximately 45,000 feet or eight-and-a-half miles of pristine river frontage with water rights. The river is wide and deep for miles. Native rolling land with pecan, live oak, mesquite, and cedar are home to abundant deer and turkey which have not been hunted in years. A beautiful rustic three-bedroom, threebath lodge overlooks the river and high sandstone river bluffs. Extremely private on a dead-end road. All minerals owned and some water rights conveyed.

Price: $6,500 per acre or purchase the northern 2,123 acres at $5,750 per acre.

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GCH Horse Facility & Cattle Ranch 618± ACRES | PARKER COUNTY | PROPERTY ID: 2893481 This ranch is located 22 minutes northwest of Weatherford. High quality features include a show barn, covered arenas, quad-plex, lodge (home and two guest quarters), cabana, pool with bar, main home, lavish office with storage and adjoining horse barn, extensive landscaping and outdoor décor, large truck, and horse trailer barn with adjoining power wash. Multiple other barns for feed, equipment and tools, and shavings. Many paddocks and loafing sheds. Steel cattle facilities. Multiple hand living quarters. Coastal Bermuda, cultivation land, native grasses, and game cover with a large creek. Extensive FM 52 paved frontage. Truly a one-of-a-kind facility! A rich and famous place or an entertainer’s paradise! Many more improvements. Price: $13,997,500

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Rocking W Ranch 1,435.75± ACRES | PARKER COUNTY | PROPERTY ID: 2807090 As unique as Texas and loaded with diversity! Only 45 miles west of Fort Worth via IH-20. Rolling with native hardwood timber and abundant game. Parklike meadows with scattered hardwoods and good grasses. Beautiful Brazos River frontage and large ponds stocked with fish! Mineral and water rights with production. 250 acres in lush coastal Bermuda. An incredible fully customized 4,000-plus square-foot main home on a scenic ridge with gorgeous views.

Guest and laborers’ quarters, a nice 23-stall horse barn, covered arena, shops, barn, many horse and cattle paddocks. Privacy gate and an extensive paved driveway. Price: $19,750,000

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Honey Hollow Ranch

352.43Âą ACRES | JACK COUNTY | PROPERTY ID: 2852067 Honey Hollow Ranch is the ultimate party and corporate ranch, featuring 352 acres in a park-like setting with large towering 100-year-old trees. The custom 8,186-square-foot log home is a masterpiece of construction with high ceilings and large rooms, designed for Texas-size parties. A 200-foot elevation offers spectacular views of Lake Bridgeport and the ranch. This property features four ponds, a 10-stall barn, and a lighted arena. Offered lavishly furnished, some exclusions, including bronzes. Visit www.HoneyHollowRanchTexas.com for more information. Price: $3,750,000

Marilyn Hoffman, Broker

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The Kington Ranch

342Âą ACRES | TAYLOR COUNTY | PROPERTY ID: 2851959 Enjoy the Texas sunset from your showplace ranch with this custom built 9,398-square-foot home on 342 private acres. The ranch is located just three hours from the Dallas/Fort Worth Airport and 25 minutes from the Abilene Airport, enabling worldwide mobility, and located adjacent to the prime Cutting Horse Territory just west of Fort Worth. The marble entry has a freeform staircase created by craftsmen in Maine from Cherry Hardwood and German Craftsmen were brought in for the exquisite carved ceilings. The floors throughout are stunning Brazilian tongue and groove cherry. This secluded leisure and functioning cattle ranch has it all, from the custom game room and movie theater, lighted tennis court, outdoor kitchen and entertaining area, heated pool with waterfall and spa, luxury master suite and exercise room, gourmet kitchen, baseball field, double RV barn (big enough for two tour buses with attached escalades) to an oversize equipment barn, cattle working pens and two stock tanks (one oversized with boat ramp, stocked with Florida bass and hybrid crappie). Deer, dove and turkey are found on the natural mesquite covered land along with Jim Ned Creek, which crosses over the back half of the land and provides irrigation for grazing grasses. Land is fenced and cross-fenced. The three cultivated fields are provided water by their own pivotal irrigation rigs. There are two wells on property and more. Offered fully furnished. Visit www.TheKingtonRanch.com for more information. Price: $4,749,000

Patricia Hoffmaster Realtor, ASP www.MarilynHoffmanRealtor.com

Pat.MariahLLC@gmail.com | (512) 970-8601 Chappell Hill, Texas

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Matt Mann/Broker | matt@lgland.com | (713) 402–8827 | www.LGLand.com

Cuero Ranch

Ragsdale Creek Ranch

95± ACRES | DEWITT COUNTY | PROPERTY ID: 2809199 This beautiful 95-acre ranch is located one-third of a mile east of Cuero, Texas on HWY 87. This prime property is filled with huge live oaks and native brush, as well as some open grazing pasture. There is approximately one-third of a mile of Oaxley Branch Creek along the western boundary line of the property, offering rolling terrain with some gorgeous home sites. The property is accessed via a private 50-foot fee title strip of land off of HWY 87. This property is perfect for a nice sized ranch close to town. Minerals available. Price: $6,500 per acre

1,558± ACRES | LAVACA COUNTY | PROPERTY ID: 2585925 This 1,558-acre ranch has been in the same family for over 100 years. Large tracts like this are rare to find this close to Houston. It is located 85 miles west of Houston, eight miles south of Sheridan, Texas, off of FM 2437. Covered in thousands of huge live oaks, this incredible hunting property has 1.7 miles of seasonal Ragsdale Creek running through it, offering sandy, rolling terrain.

There are 16 ponds, and 10 water wells, as well as miles of gravel roads.

Price: $3,550 per acre

Flying M Ranch 874± ACRES | FRIO COUNTY | PROPERTY ID: 1927119 Minerals! This high-fenced 874-acre ranch is located five miles west of Dilley, Texas on HWY 117, in the heart of South Texas. This prime hunting ranch is heavily wooded with diverse native brush and bull mesquites, has rolling terrain with stunning vistas, and excellent water including a 300 GPM Carrizo Aquifer irrigation well, and four ponds, three of which have water piped to them. The property offers a very nice 1,500-square-foot house, two barns, and working pens. Most importantly, this ranch is being offered with one-eighth of the minerals in the Eagleford Shale, is not currently leased, and has no production. Price: $3,600 per acre

Bedias Creek Ranch

Circle J Ranch

150± ACRES | WALKER COUNTY | PROPERTY ID: 2809163 This rolling 150 acres is located 85 miles from downtown Houston, on the Madison/Walker County line. Featuring one-and-a-half miles of year-round Bedias Creek, four lakes, two homes, and two barns, this outstanding property has much to offer. Approximately 30 percent of the ranch is heavily wooded with huge timber, while the balance is improved pasture with scattered oaks and pine. With over 70 feet of elevation changes, there are several home sites with marvelous views. Some minerals are available. Price: $7,900 per acre

633± ACRES | VICTORIA COUNTY | PROPERTY ID: 2329689 Located 18 miles north of Victoria this high-fenced 633 acres is well located in the desirable coastal prairie of Texas. This showplace boasts a beautiful fivebedroom custom limestone house, two party pavilions overlooking ponds, nice barn, and an improved deer herd. The ranch has paved road frontage, an electric gate, a limestone swimming pool, and over five-and-a-half miles of improved gravel roads. This ranch is turnkey and conveys with furniture, equipment, and 22.5 percent of the minerals. Price: $4,725 per acre

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KC RIVER RANCH 7,503± ACRES | FOARD COUNTY | PROPERTY ID: 2251018 The KC River Ranch is located in Southern Foard and Northern Knox Counties along the North Wichita River. The river runs through the middle of the ranch and offers great hunting and excellent grazing for cattle. This is a highly improved ranch with excellent fences, multiple pastures, some cultivation, and well-watered with several earth tanks, springs, and rural water piped all over the ranch. This is a great combination ranch for cattle and hunting. This area of North Texas is known for trophy whitetail deer, great bird hunting with turkey, quail and dove. The North Wichita River runs through the ranch and provides great habitat for the wildlife native to this area. The river is spring-fed and has water all of the time even during the severe drought that we have experienced over the last few years. MINERALS! Price: $1,195 per acre

HET RANCH 2,102± ACRES | KING COUNTY | PROPERTY ID: 1998971 The HET Ranch is located between Knox City and Guthrie Texas on Highway 222. It is right in the middle of some of the largest ranches in Texas such as the 6666, Moorehouse and Spike Box Ranches. With its large neighbors the HET Ranch has very little hunting pressure and is home to huge whitetails, some mule deer and a wide variety of other wildlife that are native to this area. The quail in the region have made a comeback with the recent rains that we have received and the excellent cover that is available.The ranch has a tremendous amount of elevation change that goes from tall mesa’s to mesquite flats. The ranch is well-watered with four tanks and three concrete troughs that are supplied by King-Cottle Coop water. The terrain has several wet weather creeks that run through the property and great tree cover. Price: $1,260 per acre

DANE MOUNT, BROKER (940) 839–6247 | dane@davisvernon.com

MCADAMS RANCH 2,480± ACRES | FOARD COUNTY | PROPERTY ID: 2675789 The McAdams Ranch is located in Southwest Foard County at the end of FM 654. This ranch has been in the McAdams family since the 1800s and is loaded with history. The McAdams Ranch was established in some of the finest country in Foard County with an abundance of water with springs that run year-round.

The ranch is also home to some of the finest hunting in Northwest Texas. The creeks, springs and excellent cover offer some of the finest habitat for all of the wildlife native to this area of Northwest Texas. This is some of the finest whitetail hunting in Texas with 160-180 Boone and Crockett native deer not uncommon on this ranch. If you are looking for a hunting ranch with large neighbors, water and secluded. This is it! $1,450 per acre

JW RANCH 4,130± ACRES | KING COUNTY | PROPERTY ID: 2672087 The JW Ranch is located in Southeast King County, approximately eight miles south of FM 222 between Guthrie and Knox City. It was once a part of the famous 6666’s Ranch. The ranch is very diverse in terrain with deep canyons, mesas and huge mesquite flats. The ranch is located in some of North Texas’ most famous ranch lands. It is surrounded by large neighbors with minimal hunting pressure. The property is home to some of North Texas’ finest whitetail deer hunting with 160-180 Boone and Crockett native bucks. There is also great quail hunting on the property. The recent rainfall we have received has helped the quail remarkably. They have plenty of feed, water and cover. The ranch has several tanks, creeks and great cover for all the wildlife native to this area.

If you are looking for a large, remote and undeveloped piece of Texas history then you need to see the JW Ranch! Price: $4,469,000 or $1,082 per acre

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“Ranchers Selling Ranches”

Tim & Helen Dockal, Broker | timdockal@verizon.net | 325) 347–8020

61 Acres Hay Springs Road 61.07± ACRES | MASON COUNTY | PROPERTY ID: 2789782 61.066 acres comprised of mostly sandy loam soils. The acreage is fenced and cross-fenced with approximately 30 acres planted in coastal Bermuda, and 20 acres that will be planted in winter wheat. Two hickory sand irrigation wells both estimated to be approximately 300 gallons per minute give this property unlimited production potential for vineyard, hay production or a cattle operation. Don’t miss this one! Price: $396,939

San Saba 95 95± ACRES | MENARD COUNTY | PROPERTY ID: 2863893 This San Saba River tract has approximately 792 feet of river frontage. The ranch has a small two-room cabin, equipped well and water trough. Perimeter fences are in good condition and there are two cross-fences dividing the property into three pastures one being old cultivation. This is great place for outdoor recreationalists who like to hunt and fish. Price: $475,000

Tri-County Ranch 186± ACRES | MENARD COUNTY | PROPERTY ID: 2481721 This rare gem of a ranch is located between London and Erna with access from Highway 377 then down an approximate three-quarters of a mile easement road to a short owned lane. Post oak, black jack, and live oak trees along with cedar and mesquite are found though out the property. The ranch is blessed with rich, sandy loam soils and native and improved grasses, a small dirt tank, and a 20-acre field. Whitetail deer, turkey, feral hog, dove and other wild life native to the area are found in abundance. There is a good equipped water well and underground water is plentiful in this area. This is an excellent recreational/ livestock ranch that is private, and has plenty of mature trees and vegetation.

Give us a call to view today! Price: $632,400

5599 Old Pontotoc Road 60.49± ACRES | MASON COUNTY | PROPERTY ID: 2886540 This private ranch retreat is blessed with stunning topography and beautiful views bordered by 3,100 feet of scenic Willow Creek. A 40x80 custom metal barndominium overlooks Willow Creek and the surrounding countryside. All contents of the living quarters, including practically new appliances, convey.

Granite outcroppings, large oak trees, and an old German-stone fence along with abundant game make this place a must see! There are three water wells, (one equipped), and an earthen pond. Price: $495,000

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DREW COLVIN, GENERAL PARTNER

MIKE BACON, GENERAL PARTNER

drew@txranchbrokers.com PO Box 1338, Burnet, Texas 78611 (512) 755–2078

mike@txranchbrokers.com PO Box 201330, Austin, Texas 78720 (512) 940–8800

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Latigo Ranch 248.93± ACRES | BURNET COUNTY | PROPERTY ID: 1762622 The Latigo Ranch is the perfect legacy ranch. The setting is spectacular as the land is gently rolling with an even tree distribution, all surrounded by dramatic views and mountain sides. The pastures are placed like golf course fairways and the headwaters of Hairston Creek meanders across the entire property. Custom rock home, deck, guest house, covered porch, weldedsteel barn, equipment storage, office; all enclosed by a welded pipe fence.

Price: $1,995,000

San Gabriel Farms 128.04± ACRES | MILAM COUNTY | PROPERTY ID: 2820219 Rarely available gem with incredible river frontage that caress this massive property and stunning custom built homestead. A 3,355-square-foot main house and 1,400-square-foot guest/in-law house have all been meticulously designed and built by one of the area’s top builders. Custom touches can be enjoyed in each and every room including a 16x16 safe room for storage and protection. The property boasts of numerous outbuildings, picnic grounds, ponds and 300-plus pecan trees which dot this pristine acreage of natural beauty. Price: $2,150,000

Chapperosa Ranch 1,422.76± ACRES | JIM HOGG COUNTY | PROPERTY ID: 2849471 This ranch is a rare find, handed down from a Texas Ranger during the original land grant. There is an old mobile home to hunt in this deer haven, a good electric-driven water well, two storage tanks and a decent set of pens for working cattle. The ranch is high-fenced on two sides. There is 1.25 miles of Highway 16 frontage and is bordered by two highly improved ranches. Here is the wide open range as it was always meant to be. Truly, almost off-the-grid living with the star-filled skies, yet, just 20 miles south of Hebbronville. You now have a chance to grab a piece of Texas History. Price: $3,201,210

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Krebbs West 1,262± ACRES | BURNET COUNTY | PROPERTY ID: 2789653 Excellent ranch less than one hour to Austin, great access, yet a good sense of privacy. Rolling topography and elevation gives this ranch character. Big views from tree covered hilltops and productive soil. Good tree cover, native grasses and open meadows. Three ponds for game and livestock and a creek. Hunting is excellent. Wildlife includes deer, turkey, dove, quail, and hogs. This ranch has multitude of possibilities, from recreation, hunting, livestock, or future development. There is an additional 875± acres available. Price: $3,975,300

Big Sky 400± ACRES | LAMPASAS COUNTY | PROPERTY ID: 1749522 A spectacular ranch with dramatic elevations providing the best sunsets to be seen. Rolling terrain, cleared cedar, leaving hardwood cover and areas have been left untouched. There are 44 acres of coastal fields, 300 acres are under an eight-foot game fence. The signature feature the exceptional main house with too many features to list. Two guest apartments and a barn that will not disappoint. There are eight lakes, five wells and graded base interior roads. High-fenced for genetically selected breeding. Exotics, MLD permitted.

Turkey, dove and ducks for hunting options. Price: $2,950,000

Goodnight Ranch 235.51± ACRES | BURNET COUNTY | PROPERTY ID: 2859361 Conveniently located, the ranch has over 3,000 feet of county road frontage which lends itself to development. Kempner water is available and an existing tap. The ranch has the feel of a much larger place with over 100 feet of elevation changes, outstanding views and excellent tree cover. Productive soil in the lower areas, ideal for food plots and potential pond sites in the draws. Excellent hunting, a small hunter’s cabin with water and electricity. Price: $910,000 LANDSOFAMERICAMAGAZINES.COM

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Timberwilde Horse Retreat

28± ACRES | GRIMES COUNTY | PROPERTY ID: 2302109 Hill Country-style home with white rock exterior and metal roof. Improvements include a horse barn, lighted arena, and guest home. The land is fenced with cattle handling facilities. Price: $749,500

12.99± ACRES | WALKER COUNTY | PROPERTY ID: 2744573 This custom quality home has 5,730 square feet of beautiful living space and features four bedrooms, four-and-a-half baths, kitchen, media room, game room, and office. Outdoor features include a pool, outdoor kitchen, 11-stall barn, arena, guest house, lake with pier, security system, cross-fenced, and concrete drive. Price: $1,250,000

Old Waverly Ranch 549± ACRES | WALKER COUNTY | PROPERTY ID: 2718496 A fine ranch, 549± acres near the Sam Houston National Forest including 40± acres of hay fields, 25± acres of stocked lakes and 80± acres of piney woods.

Partial coverage of hardwoods with rolling, level topography. Price: $3,568,500

Brazos River Ranch 941± ACRES WASHINGTON COUNTY PROPERTY ID: 2302157 The ranch features a high bluff overlooking the Brazos River with long frontage on Yegua Creek. Well-fenced with good interior roads, water wells, ponds, lakes and abundant wildlife. This ranch is functional and productive with a rustic home, hay fields, equipment barn, and more. Price: $8,200,000

Chappell Hill Ranch 297.5± ACRES | WASHINGTON COUNTY | PROPERTY ID: 2302194 Improved ranch featuring a 3,144-square-foot hilltop home with four bedrooms and three-and-a-half baths. This home is complete with a large study, large master suite, fireplace and more! The main horse barn is 40’x100’ with 12 stalls; includes office, wash rack, feed, and tack rooms. Other ranch features include arena, round pen, hay barns, and much more. Price: $3,900,000

Old Chapel Estate 18.52± ACRES | WALKER COUNTY | PROPERTY ID: 2536340 Custom home on 18± acres of pristine property. Relax on the huge porches or in the sunroom and entertain from the open concept, island kitchen. Outdoors features a 40’x80’ barn, 40’x40’ being fully enclosed, and two 20’x40’ open ends, all on a slab, and a gorgeous stock pond, with a fountain. Price: $599,500

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Rocky Creek Ranch 388± ACRES | MILLS COUNTY | PROPERTY ID: 1720651 If you have ever dreamed of working whitetail deer on your own high-fenced ranch and being able to live in a beautiful home among them, this may be the ideal place for you! A little over 250 acres of this lovely ranch with highway frontage is high-fenced and includes some of the best looking deer you will find. The additional 130± acres is directly across the highway and is low-fenced. Rocky Creek traverses both properties and, except during extreme drought, flows year-round. Dinosaur tracks embedded in some of the rock around the property provides unique opportunities to study and share a piece of history with your family and friends. The Austin stone home has five bedrooms and three bathrooms, tons of great amenities and a wraparound porch perfect for relaxing at the end of your day. There is also a foreman’s house or guest home, granite gravel roads, numerous barns, shop, and pens. This is truly a complete package. Price: $3,800,000

Lost Creek 301± ACRES | MCCULLOCH COUNTY | PROPERTY ID: 1608212 A true piece of “God’s Country”! The Lost Creek Ranch is just over 300 acres of beautiful and scenic land with a rugged and rolling terrain. There are several prime spots for a cabin or nice home and easy access from Highway 71. The ranch is home to an abundance of typical native Texas wildlife including whitetail deer, turkey, and hogs. Come walk under the live oak trees along the sandy creek bed of Lost Creek as it meanders the length of the property. This is a beautiful piece of land and very well priced at only $3,000 per acre!

Running Creek Ranch 131± ACRES | MILLS COUNTY | PROPERTY ID: 2612183 Prime, free-range whitetail hunting on this gorgeous small acreage property. This property fronts on Highway 84 north of Mullin, Texas and provides easy access. Picture walking along the meandering, running creek and observing all of the native Hill Country critters. Find one of the numerous pristine spots to build your dream home, if you have been searching for raw and beautiful property for recreation or permanent residence with easy access, running water, and heavy cover for the wildlife, this is IT! Price: $3,950 per acre www.FrostyMiller.com frosty@tstar.net (325) 247–3997 | (325) 456–8844 1200 Ford Street | Llano, Texas 78643 view all properties: LandsofTexas.com/member/6053 LANDSOFAMERICAMAGAZINES.COM

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Tyler Wright, Broker findaranch@gmail.com (877) 396-4477 PO Box 845, 200 Ellis Street Menard, Texas 76859

Peg Leg Ranch 889± ACRES | MENARD COUNTY The Peg Leg Ranch is conveniently located in the Northwest Hill Country between the quaint communities of Menard and Mason. Located approximately 12 miles east of Menard on State Highway 29 on the banks of the beautiful San Saba River sits this true Hill Country dream property. The main home is 7,000 square feet, two-story Austin stone with all the bells and whistles. Newly renovated inside, with high-end furniture and art, it sits atop the highest, most scenic bluff on the ranch overlooking your own private, five-acre man-made lake. Nestled within the park-like shaded setting below the main home is a nice river cabin just beside Peg Leg Dam (a historical river crossing) on the river. Other improvements include a separate home-office or guesthouse, an additional guest home situated on the east side of the ranch, a large equipment barn, a hickory well and four domestic water wells. The property is contained within a game-proof high-fence with a 20-plus year managed whitetail deer program with excellent genetics producing 180-200 inch deer. There is also a nice herd of black buck antelope. Across the river is Peg Leg Farm—259 acres of irrigated coastal fields and additional cultivated fields for planting, with two pivots. Custom working pens, big-truck load out, foreman’s home and several hay/equipment barns are included. Total acreage is 887; owner would divide and sell 628 acres or 259 acres. Furnishings negotiable.

Indian Springs Ranch 272± ACRES | TOM GREEN COUNTY | PROPERTY ID: 2658623 This unique 272-acre river property is a rare find with over 21 water wells drilled and cased, one mile of North Concho River, two-story brick home with swimming pool, hunter’s lodge with party barn, cotton fields, small draw/creek, and much more. The terrain is gently sloping with fertile soils and larger hard woods along river bottoms. There is a very nice two-story brick home with outdoor cooking area, swimming pool and hot tub. The home has approximately 2,700 square feet with four bedrooms and three baths, nice size kitchen, media room and attached two-car garage. There is a covered patio that is easily accessed from the media room which allows guests to feel right at home. The metal barn is 30’x40’ with large roll up door to accommodate most all trucks and tractors. This makes an excellent storage area and workshop for the rancher/farmer. The hunter’s lodge is central heat/air with three bedrooms and one bath. The lodge is located on the high bank of the North Concho River and has plenty of room to entertain hunters or friends/family. There is a party barn attached to the lodge that can easily accommodate a party of 30-plus! This is a great bonus if one enjoys hosting family gatherings and/or corporate retreats. The outdoorsman can enjoy hunting axis deer, whitetail, wild turkey, and dove! Come see this valley of water near Water Valley, Texas! Asking $2,530,000

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Chimney Hill Ranch 172± ACRES | KERR COUNTY | PROPERTY ID: 2507808 2,100 linear feet of Lower Turtle Creek, three-acre lake. 7,628± square-foot home with impeccable detail, four bedrooms, three full-baths, two halfbaths. Five fireplaces, one fire pit. Three-car garage, loggia, courtyards, balconies, indoor heated lap pool, 11-stall horse barn, covered riding arena 168x50 with viewing area. Three-rail pipe fence, turn-out areas and lanes. High and low-fenced, cottage, foreman’s house, workout room, green house and garden, asphalt drive. Wildlife, beautiful hardwood trees.

Ag. exempt. Price: $5,199,000

FM 725 Seguin 35± ACRES | GUADALUPE COUNTY | PROPERTY ID: 2628159 Cabin, apartment, big-bay workshop, barn, shed, high-fenced, pond, exotics and senderos. Great little ranch set-up with a wildlife exemption while considering your development options. Located in Seguin on FM 725. Two miles from IH-10 and about one mile from Highway 46. Annexed by the City of Sequin and zoned “future development” with two city water connections and sewer, GVEC three phase power, nice level development tract with frontage on two sides. High-fenced with native whitetail deer and axis. Price: $985,000

Cardinal Hill Ranch 223± ACRES | KERR COUNTY | PROPERTY ID: 2540702 Amazing views and located approximately 2.5 miles east on Highway 39 from the Hunt Store. 6,805-square-foot home that is cutting edge, modern Hill Country with 2,580 square feet of outdoor porches and decks, elevator, six-foot in-line fireplace, bar, butler’s pantry, caterer’s kitchen, office, craft room, exercise room, bonus room, pool and hot tub. Guest house/office suite with attached stables and riding arena, three-acre lake has an amazing party barn perched on the edge of the water. Waterfalls, swimming hole, native and exotic wildlife, ATV and horseback trails, ag. exempt. Price: $5,900,000

Hidden Hills Ranch 100± ACRES | KERR COUNTY | PROPERTY ID: 2657629 Camp Verde—100 acres with a gorgeous high peak of 1,870 feet elevation nestled in prestigious Hidden Hills. The prettiest part of the Texas Hill Country.

360-degree view from a flat top five-acre building site, nice bottom land, springfed creek, waterfall/grotto, stock tank with a dock and electric, fenced, three water wells. Wildlife Exemption. The local Camp Verde Store and Restaurant offers the surrounding community a link to the past and a place for today. Price: $899,000

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Mark M Connally / Broker Carlos Klutts / Broker Wallace Rogers / Agent connallymm@gmail.com (512) 944-4435 South Texas and Hill Country

Cotulla Hunting Ranch 2,367± ACRES | LA SALLE COUNTY | PROPERTY ID: 2464166 One-eighth minerals to convey. Great South Texas brush, with rolling topography.

Five year-round tanks, Carrizo water well, and Sauz Creek. High-fenced on three sides. Seven blinds and seven feeders. Price: $5,668,935

Quail/Deer Paradise 1,857± ACRES | LA SALLE COUNTY | PROPERTY ID: 2128155 1,857 high-fenced acres in La Salle County, Texas (all goes, turn-key). Exceptional home. Everything goes! Bring your friend/family and hunt! Whitetail managed for 12 years, unreal quail hunting, over 70 coveys seen in last survey. Three lakes, stock tank, rolling hills. All blinds and feeder go. Carrizo water well feeds water throughout ranch. All equipment to convey as well. Surface agreement in place to protect land owner from future oil and gas. Price: $5,475,000

Wilson County Lodge 88± ACRES | WILSON COUNTY | PROPERTY ID: 2536134 88 remote acres. Listed below appraised value! Gorgeous 5,000± square-foot home with pool, guest house, and barn. All located at end of private road. One lake, four ponds. On the back part of the ranch there are abundant whitetail, turkey, and other varmints. Land is rolling, sandy soil, covered on post oaks.

There are two water wells on the property that service the home and also can supplement two of the tanks. Price: $825,000

Edwards County Hunting Cabin 443.21± ACRES | EDWARDS COUNTY | PROPERTY ID: 2617705 443 acres in Edwards County, Texas (more adjoining acreage available). Nice cabin, ready for you to put your desired finishes. Two bedrooms, two baths, and two lofts. Great porches on two sides. Nice 40x40 barn with concrete floor.

Great water well, and electric in place. Great access through Kickapoo Cavern State Park, and then private caliche road. Rolling Hills, good road system, great cover for wildlife. Secluded and private. Bring your family and hunt this season!

Abundant deer, axis, aoudad, dove, and varmits. Price: $642,655

Bexar County Investment

385± ACRES | BEXAR COUNTY | PROPERTY ID: 2766229 385 acres in Bexar County—great investment opportunity only minutes from San Antonio. The property has 225-acre-feet of Edwards water that will transfers with the property, available BMA water, and an Edwards irrigation well (500-600 GPM). There is a beautiful eight-acre lake, several other tank sites, as well as older livestock pens, loading areas, and grain bins. County water and electric in place.

Currently leased out and farmed organically. Half of the mineral rights owned by the current owner will convey. Price: $2,600,000

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Cypress Creek Ranch

Crider Ranch

400± ACRES | BLANCO COUNTY Located in Cypress Mill, Texas. Contact Todd Fox for price and details at (512) 755–4433 or Todd@MarkFoxRealEstate.com.

218± ACRES | BURNET COUNTY | PROPERTY ID: 2634802 Located minutes from Marble Falls, this property has everything the Hill Country has to offer! Privacy, views, a spring-fed waterfall, coastal fields, high hilltops and abundant wildlife. Please contact Mark Fox Real Estate for pricing and more information.

The Darling Ranch

Lake Travis Ranch

77± ACRES | HAYS AND BLANCO COUNTIES PROPERTY ID: 2549546 Located in Cypress Mill, Texas with approximately 2,800 feet of the Pedernales River. Visit www.MarkFoxRealEstate.com for more information.

180± ACRES | TRAVIS COUNTY Over 3,500 feet of water frontage where the Colorado River and Pedernales River converge on Lake Travis. Please contact Mark Fox Real Estate for pricing and more information.

Todd Fox/Agent

(830) 693–8884 | (512) 755–4433

CELL

| Todd@MarkFoxRealEstate.com

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SELLING DREAMS BY THE ACRE.

Concho River Ranch 941± ACRES | IRION COUNTY | PROPERTY ID: 2851636 This ranch is located 16 miles west of San Angelo on both sides of the Middle Concho River and both sides of live Rocky Creek. It is gently rolling country with moderate to heavy mesquite and large pecan and oak along the river and creek. It is high-fenced and improved with a nice hunting lodge and two good barns. Game include whitetail deer, blackbuck antelope, turkey, and quail. Some minerals will convey. No production. 20 minutes from downtown but off the beaten path. Price: $3,400,000

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Nelson Farm & Ranch Properties A. E. “Butch” Nelson, Jr., Broker

nelsonfarmandranch@gmail.com P.O. Box 5051 | Abilene, Texas 79608 view all properties: LandsofTexas.com/member/49724

www.aenelson.com • Phone: (325) 698-3374 • Toll-Free: (866) 218-6238

Rugged River Ranch 1,200± ACRES | FISHER COUNTY | PROPERTY ID: 1810831 This recreational ranching paradise is located just north of Rotan, Texas with ingress and egress off US Highway 70. The rolling rangeland terrain has elevation changes and is primarily covered in mesquite, cedar and other hardwoods and provides excellent hunting of deer, turkey, quail, and hogs. The property has a small amount of cultivation in excellent river bottom land. Water is abundant on the ranch with a water well, large lake for fishing or water source for livestock, and scenic water frontage on the Double Mountain Fork of the Brazos River which meanders through the northern portion of the ranch.

Improvements include mostly new barbed-wire perimeter fencing. This ranch is being offered at $1,200 per acre with some minerals and royalties to be conveyed. Let us show you what Fisher County has to offer.

For more information, please give us a call.

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Texas First Real Estate 1116 FM 109 New Ulm, Texas 78950 (979) 992–3425 office

(979) 992–3427 fax

Rocking H Ranch 114± ACRES | AUSTIN COUNTY PROPERTY ID: 2328674 The Rocking H Ranch is the finest ranch on the market in the most sought after location in Austin County. Charles Fordtran, a surveyor in the Earnst Grant of Stephen F. Austin’s colony, was given vast amounts of land of his choosing as payment. He selected this beautiful location as his home. And it’s no wonder why, as each sunrise makes one feel he is in the midst of the foothills of the Blue Ridge Mountains. The incomparable 1800’s home was completely restored using the highest level of construction and materials available and overlooks the majestic countryside of rolling hills and green meadows. A carriage house completes this awesome picture. The grounds and gardens are magnificent and accented by a swimming pool and porches for those special mornings. Spring-fed pond, wet-weather creek and an abundance of wildlife. The ranch also includes a manager’s quarters, equipment barn, covered arena and roping arena. Rolling pastures and paddocks are perfect for your horse or cattle operation. Extremely private and quiet. This magnificent showcase ranch is just one hour west of Houston.

Fulshear Equestrian Ranch 48± ACRES | FORT BEND COUNTY Gorgeous ranch located on prestigious James Lane. Main barn has 13 stalls, seven stall stallion barn, 120’x80’ covered arena plus beautiful pastures.

Awaits your dream home. Very special opportunity in bustling Fulshear.

www.TexasFirstRE.com

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Jim Hardie, Broker Associate jim@moreland.com | (512) 423-7474 www.JimHardie.com

Chad Mahagan chad@moreland.com | (512) 773-6281 view all properties: LandsofTexas.com/member/16899

River Valley Ranch 1,561.55± ACRES | BLANCO COUNTY | PROPERTY ID: 2745355 Amazing opportunity to own a beautiful piece of the Texas Hill Country with live-water and abundant wildlife. Conveniently located less than an hour from Austin and San Antonio, River Valley Ranch offers such an escape with an extraordinary pairing of solitude and accessibility. It is this prime location that also caters to many of the Texas Hill Country “Hot Spots”. The many museums and parks of Johnson City are just a short 15-minute drive over the rolling hills. Less than an hour drive to the west are the countless shops and unique dining experiences of Fredericksburg. Take a short 25 minute drive to the north and hit the links at one of many golf courses at the Horseshoe Bay Resort on the shores of Lake LBJ. With this incredible location you can enjoy your very own personal oasis and still have easy access to everything the Texas Hill Country has to offer. For more information, please visit www.RiverValleyRanchTexas.com.

Buffalo Gap Ranch 171± ACRES | BLANCO COUNTY | PROPERTY ID 2765430 This remarkable ranch is located west of Austin in the highly desirable Cypress Mill area in the heart of the Texas Hill Country. The immaculate, one-story ranch house is perched high on the canyon rim along with a custom guest house to take in the majestic hilltop vistas that overlook the Pedernales River valley and to the far-reaching hills. The varying terrain provides native grass land with large oak trees plus wooded and brush covered canyons for hunting the abundant wildlife.

Private and serene, this ranch is ideal as a country residence, private retreat and recreation, and retirement. Wildlife exempt. Offered at $1,480,000. Contact Jim Hardie at (512) 423-7474.

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GREG TOM REALTY SELLING TEXAS RANCHES FOR OVER 40 YEARS

Uno Mas Ranch 1,330± ACRES | BANDERA COUNTY | PROPERTY ID: 2254029 Beautiful secluded ranch with easy access, large neighbors, high-fenced, nice lake with great building site, spring-fed creek. Abundant wildlife including elk herd, aoudad, axis, wild turkey, whitetail, etc. Nice pioneer home that has been remodeled, barndominium with two sleeping quarters.

Tremendous views from hilltops with a lot of water potential. This is a rare find and priced to sell. Located about 30 minutes northwest of Bandera near Tarpley. Call for price.

Pedernales River Ranch 90± ACRES | GILLESPIE COUNTY | PROPERTY ID: 1188067 Beautiful 90 acres with Pedernales river access. Great location close to Austin, San Antonio, and historic Fredericksburg. Near LBJ National Park and Hill Country Wine Trail. Great for vineyard, horses or investment. Old windmill and a drilled well that is not equipped. Seller may sell one-half. Price: $10,950 per acre

207 Mulberry Lane, Boerne, Texas 78006 | view all properties: LandsofTexas.com/member/12918 Greg Tom, Broker

(830) 796–0520 | GregTom@gvtc.com | www.GregTomRealty.com

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JOE WILSON/AGENT (214) 784–3725 | JCWILSON@JCWILSONINT.COM SAM VESTER/BROKER (210) 844–3942

Venado Grande Ranch 4,438–12,158± ACRES | KNOX COUNTY | PROPERTY ID: 1994779 Venado Grande Ranch is an outstanding Northwest Texas hunting ranch known for excellent trophy whitetail deer, turkeys, doves, quail, ducks and wild hogs.

The ranch can be sold as one track of 12,158 acres or 8,103 acres or 4,438 acres. Two-thirds of the ranch has not been hunted in more than 20 years. The majority of the land is rolling with scattered cedar and mesquite tree cover. There are eight pastures and 150 acres previously planted in wheat. Most of the ranch is a strong red sandy loam soil...the best. The primary source of water for the ranch is from the King Cottle Water Co-op. Five 10,000-gallon tanks store water which is distributed by pipelines to 26 cattle and wildlife troughs throughout the ranch. There are many stock ponds with some being large and stocked with fish. Over six miles of Wichita River meanders though the northwest quadrant of the ranch. Venado Grande is conveniently located approximately 180 miles west of Dallas/Fort Worth metroplex, 102 miles north of Abilene, 119 miles east of Lubbock and 215 miles southeast of Amarillo. From Benjamin, Texas proceed west on Highway 82 for eight-and-a-half miles the property fronts the right side of Highway 82. NO CURRENT PRODUCTION ON RANCH. Half of seller owned minerals will be conveyed. Contact for price. For virtual tour go to www.VenadoGrandeRanch.info

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COUNTRY CONNECTION ™ Brian Smith Broker, ALC, CIPS Accredited Land Consultant, Wildlife Ranch Owner, 38 Years Experience 2011 Lone Star Land Steward Award Recipient

www.CountryConnection.com (972) 588–8300 | Brian@CountryConnection.com

AN EBBY HALLIDAY COMPANY 6025 Luther Lane Dallas, Texas 75225

TEXAS WILDLIFE ASSOCIATION | AMERICAN QUARTER HORSE ASSOC. | REALTORS LAND INSTITUTE | INT’L REAL ESTATE SECTION

Twin Mills Ranch 555± ACRES | VAN ZANDT COUNTY | PROPERTY ID: 1999175 A highly productive and beautiful 555-acre ranch. Excellent improved coastal Bermuda and Tifton 85 pastures. Gorgeous rolling terrain with great views, 12 ponds and four fantastic stocked lakes full of bass, catfish and black crappie.

Three-bedroom, one-bath main home, 140x108 covered cattle working barn, 270x150 outdoor arena, 48x30 equipment barn and 30x30 workshop. 500foot well. Fenced, cross-fenced. Excellent fishing lakes, deer and hogs; only minutes to Canton. Price: $2,975,000

CB Whitetail Ranch 317± ACRES | BOSQUE COUNTY | PROPERTY ID: 2718380 317 high-fenced acres in Bosque County south of Clifton. Excellent wildlife habitat, currently under a Texas Parks and Wildlife Level 3 MLD program.

20 doe and 10 buck permits last year. Ranch was stocked in 1998 with bred does from South Texas 150–160 Boone and Crockett Common. Satterwhite log structures include main home, manager’s home, two cabins, a fantastic saloon, office and metal equipment barn. Two ponds for fishing. Three-stall barn. Sells furnished. Minerals available. Price: $1,950,000

Three Falls Ranch 213± ACRES | MONTAGUE COUNTY | PROPERTY ID: 2324554 Cozy four-bedroom, three-and-a-half-bath country farmhouse on 213 acres nestled among the live oaks of the North Texas Hill Country near Forestburg.

Abundant wildlife, rolling topography, unique wooded canyon with creek and waterfalls. Home features a chef’s kitchen, breakfast area with fireplace, large family room with fireplace, dining room and huge first floor master suite with fireplace. Separate study. Upstairs are three bedrooms, two baths, large game room with fireplace and balcony. Features covered porches, 32x16 shop, 48x24 equipment barn, greenhouse and chicken coop, 650-foot and 200foot water wells with backup generators, four ponds, cattle pens, and gated entrance. Price: $1,500,000

DFW — Wild Country 299.21± ACRES | ROCKWALL COUNTY | PROPERTY ID: 2864403 Wild country property located 45 minutes east of Dallas in southeast Rockwall County. Unique recreational property full of deer, hogs and excellent waterfowl hunting capabilities. Access to a 60-plus acre Soil Conservation lake. Canoeing, fishing and camping. This convenient weekend getaway and wildlife haven is a great opportunity! So close, but so far away! Price: $897,630

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Pecan Wells Ranch 200± ACRES | HAMILTON COUNTY | PROPERTY ID: 2267534 This secluded ranch is located just 17 miles west of Hamilton and 12 miles east of Goldthwaite. The ranch offers a beautiful 2,700-square-foot, fourbedroom, three-and-half-bath custom rock home overlooking views of rolling terrain covered in wildlife. Several established food plots have been scattered throughout the property providing easy feed for the turkey and whitetail deer. The deer camp is located close to the main house and has RV hook-ups. The property is currently under Pecan Valley Wildlife Management, providing bonus deer tags for the property.

Comanche Ridge Ranch 130± ACRES | BOSQUE COUNTY | PROPERTY ID: 2856271 This unique 130-acre property is just three miles southeast of Clifton on CR 3310. Comanche Ridge has some of the most breathtaking views of the Bosque River Valley! Come explore the mini caves and rock outcroppings that surround the Comanche Ridge. This small hunting ranch has been cleared with plenty of cover and ATV trails for hunting deer, turkey, and dove. This ranch would make an excellent home or weekend getaway!

Ranch 101 101.35± ACRES | ERATH COUNTY | PROPERTY ID: 2612531 The property is located an hour and 45 minutes from Dallas/Fort Worth, Austin, Possum Kingdom and Lake Whitney and just 15 minutes from Historic Hico. Wildlife includes deer, doves, turkeys, hogs, rabbits and squirrels. This log home with a metal roof features three spacious bedrooms and each has a full bath. The master bedroom has a direct vent gas fireplace, a beautiful view looking out over the land with a door exiting to the covered front porch. The Bunk House includes two custom sets of double size bunk beds and a king size bed. There is a concrete shelter fortified for a storm that includes a wet bar, dance floor and theater area. The drive through garage is equipped with an RV electrical hookup and sewage outlet. There is approximately a 50/50 ratio between open fields and wooded area.

Slick Rock Ranch 95.66± ACRES | HAMILTON COUNTY | PROPERTY ID: 2450229 Enjoy the peace and tranquility of country living on this 95.66-acre ranch located just minutes from downtown Hico, Texas. Parts of this ranch are wooded with a wet weather creek and a substantial four-acre lake stocked with fish. The remaining part of the ranch is clean and cleared, mostly open with sandy loam that has been seeded with native grasses. The property features a 2,200-square-foot custom home, a horse barn and a shop/guest apartment with one-bedroom, one-bath and a kitchen.

Stefanie Cobb Ranch Broker, CNE ® REALTOR® Tai Cobb-Klam Ranch Sales/Office Manager, CNE ® REALTOR® (972) 989–5220 | (254) 253–0157 | Stef@CobbRanchProperties.com

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2025 North Highway 35, Port Lavaca, Texas 77979 | view all properties: LandsofTexas.com/member/56763

Hallettsville Barndominium 10.6± ACRES | LAVACA COUNTY | PROPERTY ID: 2875995 This property has a 2,144-square-foot warehouse with a 1,800-square-foot barndominium that has three bedrooms and two bathrooms. This property is ideal for cattle sales or livestock showings. Price: $380,000

Matagorda Bay Pasture Land 452.84± ACRES | MATAGORDA COUNTY | PROPERTY ID: 2807469 Good pasture land located on Turtle Bay and Matagorda Bay. There is water and game on the property, as well as troughs, chutes and gates. Price: $995,000

Victoria Barge Canal 104± ACRES | CALHOUN COUNTY | PROPERTY ID: 1947900 This is a great investment opportunity located in an ideal area on the corner of Highways 185 and 35 with convenient access on two sides. This acreage has 1,000 feet of barge canal frontage and would be perfect for commercial or industrial development. The property is fenced and has two pipelines across the front with one pipeline crossing Highway 35. Minerals have been previously retained. Actual acreage is 94 acres. Price: $1,500,000

Waterfront Property 2.34± ACRES | JACKSON COUNTY | PROPERTY ID: 2837533 Beautiful three-bedroom, two-bath home on the water. This house has vaulted ceilings, granite counter tops in kitchen and bathrooms, and stained concrete floors. Price: $565,000

www.russellcain.com (361) 552–6313

Russell Cain, Broker rc@russellcain.com

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Amy Gomez | (956) 451–8120

Michael Gomez | (956) 648–7678

Escondida Horse Ranch 40± ACRES | HAYS COUNTY | PROPERTY ID: 2815733 This recently remodeled home is a three-bedroom, three-and-a-half-bath with a large game room. The property has beautiful manicured oak trees. There are exterior rock walls and patios, granite counter tops, new appliances, upgraded sprinkler systems, and a pool with new pump and filter system. Other features include a horse facilities with an arena, 10-plus acres of pipe fencing for horses to graze, and a barndominium with horse stables and tack room. The additional foreman’s house is three-bedroom, three-bath. There is a gated stone entry with a paved private drive! Ag. exempt. Additional raw land available. Price: $2,750,000

Spring Creek Property

Hill Country Oasis

26± ACRES | BLANCO COUNTY | PROPERTY ID: 2838336 The property has been cleared of cedar trees and has mature live oaks and post oaks. There is a cleared pasture, perfect for someone with horses or cattle to graze, and a seasonal creek that runs through the middle of the land. There is an abundance of wildlife that includes whitetail deer, wild turkey and dove. The property has a stone gated entry with a newly improved paved road. Additional acreage and tracts are available for sale. Ag. exempt. Please visit our website for additional pictures and additional tracts available for sale. Price: $333,500

55.63± ACRES | KENDALL COUNTY | PROPERTY ID: 2858018 This Hill Country oasis has the perfect mix of large mature oak trees and pasture land. There are five ponds on the property that stay full year-round along with two seasonal creeks that run through the property. There are amazing views of rolling hills in all directions. Cedar trees have been cleared from the ranch and the property has full road frontage on two sides. Owner has additional parcels available for sale. Ag. exempt. Please visit our website for additional pictures and land layout. Price: $598,000

PO Box 720139, McAllen, Texas 78504 |

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www.HillCountryProperties.net Carol Schultz, Realtor/Partner

Carol@LoneStarBoerne.com | (210) 268–3691 Boerne, Texas

Rust Lane Farmhouse 21.91± ACRES | KENDALL COUNTY | PROPERTY ID: 1994731 Here is the perfect chance to own an authentically recreated Texas farmhouse close to Boerne with a detached one-bedroom guest house. The main house is a 2,600-square-foot home of cypress board and batten. Inside are wide plank loblolly pine floors, 12–foot stone fireplace, six-burner cooktop, a Subzero refrigerator, library or television room, a climate controlled wine room, and two master bedrooms that flank each end of the home. The property also has a 3,500-square-foot herb and flower garden, terraced with drip irrigation. There is a four-to-six stall barn with a onebedroom apartment and two wells with a storage tank. There are 15 acres of rolling pasture with good grass. Ag exempt. Price: $1,340,000

Privilege Creek Homestead 27.53± ACRES | BANDERA COUNTY PROPERTY ID: 2699543 High on a hilltop, hugging Privilege Creek, is an impressive estate with a custom plantation-style Clark Lang home and a 1,380-square-foot, two-bed, two-bath, log cabin. What a beautiful retreat! Inspiring views abound from the back porch of the log home, the backyard gazebo, and the spacious second story east and west balconies for sunrise and sunset relaxation. Approximately 1,000 feet of Privilege Creek is included for your own private water play area with springs. Acreage is unrestricted, recreational, and a sanctuary for plentiful birds and wildlife. Price: $1,100,000

Oakridge Lane Retreat 44.73± ACRES | BANDERA COUNTY PROPERTY ID: 2778825 Oakridge Lane is surrounded by ridges of elegant mature oaks amid native grasses.

This wildlife exempt property is an ideal second home, retreat, or recreational space located in close proximity to San Antonio and Boerne as well as easily accessible from Houston or Dallas. It has a comfortably updated 2,688-square-foot home with well placed windows to bring the outdoors inside. There are spaces for outdoor living, raising livestock, gardening, and enjoying wildlife and nature. Two level ridges provide incredible views for pure sunset watching or perhaps envisioning future home sites. It is clear of cedar, fenced and cross-fenced with usable soil and pasture. The complete setting will take you back to days when time passed very slowly. Price: $1,255,500

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Rancho Encantada 403± ACRES | KIMBLE COUNTY | PROPERTY ID: 2858000 GREAT WATER AND A FABULOUS LOCATION! This hunting ranch is located two miles from Downtown Junction. It is just three miles from IH-10. The airport and golf course are close.

Just two hours from San Antonio and three hours from Austin. The strong flowing Cedar Creek runs approximately 1,800 feet through the ranch and supplies a great little fishing lake. There is a comfortable, older three-bedroom, two-bath ranch house, and small twobedroom, one-bath guest house. This ranch is over-run with axis deer. It also has whitetail deer, turkey and hogs. The ranch is low-fenced and ag. exempt. It has been a private family hunting ranch for over 40 years. Price: $2,625,000.

Bart Jones, Broker • jones3bart@gmail.com • (830) 928-4820 view all properties: LandsofTexas.com/member/37026

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FM 1624 FRONTAGE 403± ACRES | LEE COUNTY PROPERTY ID: 2267117 Beautifully maintained farmland centrally located between Austin and Houston in Lee County. Impeccable hay production with great returns. Lincoln and Lee County water, plus multiple tanks/ponds. Improved open land with high-quality coastal grasses, perfect for continued hay production with income, horse or cattle grazing. House, two barns, horse walker and more. Water rights convey.

Christen S. Steen, Broker Christen@TxRealEstatePeople.com

TXRealEstatePeople.com | (512)-589-1315 | 1601 E. Cesar Chavez #107, Austin, TX 78702

David Stewart, Realtor | david@liveoakrealtors.com

Charles Chesshir, Broker/Owner

RHW Ranch 743± ACRES | COLEMAN COUNTY | PROPERTY ID: 2693249 This ranch was designed and custom-built for sportsmen, complete with your own lighted 5,400-foot runway approved for jet aircraft and fully equipped 3,500-square-foot hangar. The ranch has five residences, including two lodges. Each lodge is complete with a fireplace, commercial-style kitchen, large mesquite top bar area with ice machines and wine cooler, laundry room, plus sleeping quarters with full baths, and two additional halfbaths. The main house has three bedrooms, three-and-a-half baths, two fireplaces, and granite counter tops. The backyard oasis is complete with saltwater pool and separate spa area, accented with waterfalls and beautifully landscaped. This 743 acres is a working cattle ranch with deer, duck, dove, quail and hog hunting. Two wing shooting arenas behind lodges, spacious enough for the entire family or a company outing. Several deep ponds and a large lake for fishing or duck hunting. Contact for price.

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www.TXRecLand.com

John Dean, Agent

JDean@TXRecLand.com

(512) 540–1555

Island Ranch 869± ACRES | MILAM COUNTY | PROPERTY ID: 1603986 Large cattle-working ranch in the heart of Central Texas! Great place to run stocker cattle or use as a cow-calf operation. With this property you can control the rain, so to speak, with the five large center pivots covering approximately 300 acres. Property offers several large water wells, steel working pens, great fencing, and concrete feed bunks. Buyer gets a lot of infrastructure at a reasonable price!

Price: $3,041,500

Beautiful Lampasas Riverfront 48.6± ACRES | BELL COUNTY | PROPERTY ID: 2869690 Boasting almost a half-mile of Lampasas River frontage in Hill Country, this property has it all! This tract is located within the River Ridge Ranch community, offering privacy and gated access. This property is located minutes from Killeen, Texas, home of Texas A&M-Central Texas, with easy access to the Austin area. Unique topography grants both hilltop views of over 10 miles, as well as river bottom privacy. There are several great homesites, a well-maintained hay field, ag. exemption, and numerous large pecan trees. This property also has great hunting opportunities for deer and turkey! Don’t miss out on this one-of-a-kind property! Price: $625,000

104 East Cameron Avenue, Rockdale, Texas 76567 | view all properties: LandsofTexas.com/member/158627 INDEX BROKER 5 Star Country Properties Adkins & Associates Ahern Ranches Bart Jones Real Estate Bill Johnson & Associates Real Estate Company Briggs Freeman Sotheby’s International Realty Century 21 Harvey Properties Chas S. Middleton and Son Chip Cole, Ranch Broker Coalson Real Estate Cobb Properties Country Connection and Dave Perry-Miller Real Estate Davis Vernon Real Estate Deitra Robertson Real Estate Dulling Ranch Sales FINDARANCH.COM Foster Farm and Ranch Real Estate Fredericksburg Realty LLC Frosty Miller Ranch Realty Greg Tom Realty Hills of Texas Ranches Hoffman International Properties HomeLand Properties Hood Real Estate J. Gruber Properties Jacobs Properties Jim Berry Hill Country Ranch Sales King Land & Water Kuper Sotheby’s International Realty Kuper Sotheby’s International Realty TX Hill Country La Gloria Land Company Land & Ranch Realty Land InvesTex, LLC LANDTX Liveoak Realtors

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BROKER Lockhart Real Estate LoneStar Properties Mark Fox Real Estate Markham Realty Meek Ranch Sales Moreland Properties Farm and Ranch Nelson Farm & Ranch Properties Nine Bar Land & Cattle Nixon Real Estate Perry Bushong Real Estate Phyllis Browning Land & Ranch Co. Platinum Ranches Ranch Investments Reno Realty Group Republic Ranches Russell Cain Real Estate Simpson Ranches and Land Stringfellow Ranch Sales Superior Farm & Ranch Realty LLC Tejas Properties Texas First Real Estate Texas Heritage Brokers Texas Land & Ranch Company Texas Land Men Texas Ranch Brokers Texas Ranch Land For Sale Texas Ranches For Sale The duPerier Texas Land Man The Texas Ranch Company TX Real Estate People TX Rec Land United Country | Jones Swenson Auction Marketing United Country | Strategic Client Services, LLC Vester Ranch Sales Western Hill Country LANDSOFAMERICAMAGAZINES.COM

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ROBERTS COUNTY

ARMSTRONG COUNTY

POTTER COUNTY

PRESIDIO COUNTY

HUDSPETH COUNTY

PRESIDIO COUNTY

16,013± Acres | Property ID: 2452573 Chas S. Middleton and Son Page 233

5,412.64 ± Acres | Property ID: 2471213 Whitaker Real Estate (806) 356–6100

1,487± Acres | Property ID: 2861168 Triangle Realty, LLC (806) 367–8334

REGION 2 FAR WEST TEXAS

30,770± Acres | Property ID: 2864470 The duPerier Texas Land Man Page 8

30,547± Acres | Property ID: 2779443 King Land & Water Page 222

12,500± Acres | Property ID: 1555099 King Land & Water Page 223

BREWSTER COUNTY

10,500± Acres

Property ID: 2730266

Stringfellow Ranch Sales

Page 121

HUDSPETH COUNTY

6,400± Acres

Property ID: 2327690

Hood Real Estate

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HUDSPETH COUNTY PECOS COUNTY TERRELL COUNTY

2,963± Acres 928± Acres 10,800± Acres

Property ID: 2450171 Property ID: 2850079 Property ID: 2613536

King Land & Water Ahern Ranches King Land & Water

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REGION 3 WEST TEXAS

VAL VERDE COUNTY

20,944± Acres | Property ID: 2614059 Dulling Ranch Sales Page 166

KNOX COUNTY

17,984± Acres | Property ID: 913616 Tejas Properties Page 238

VAL VERDE COUNTY

14,035± Acres | Property ID: 1758641 Republic Ranches Page 196

COLLINGSWORTH COUNTY

2,400± Acres

Property ID: 2781715

Republic Ranches

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CONCHO COUNTY CROCKETT COUNTY EDWARDS COUNTY EDWARDS COUNTY EDWARDS COUNTY EDWARDS COUNTY EDWARDS COUNTY EDWARDS COUNTY EDWARDS COUNTY EDWARDS COUNTY EDWARDS COUNTY EDWARDS COUNTY EDWARDS COUNTY EDWARDS COUNTY EDWARDS COUNTY EDWARDS COUNTY EDWARDS COUNTY FISHER COUNTY FOARD COUNTY

651± Acres 11,420± Acres 4,048± Acres 3,100± Acres 2,880± Acres 1,285± Acres 1,239± Acres 1,231.64± Acres 978± Acres 868.81± Acres 800± Acres 647± Acres 516.63± Acres 443.21± Acres 177± Acres 48± Acres 48± Acres 1,200± Acres 7,503± Acres

Property ID: 2052240 Property ID: 1779585 Property ID: 2500897 Property ID: 2526656 Property ID: 1188314 Property ID: 2677765 Property ID: 983552 Property ID: 2870486 Property ID: 2809230 Property ID: 2627718 Property ID: 2869739 Property ID: 1707571 Property ID: 2627735 Property ID: 2617705 Property ID: 2477798 Property ID: 1352142 Property ID: 2568518 Property ID: 1810831 Property ID: 2251018

LANDTX King Land & Water Perry Bushong Real Estate Hood Real Estate Texas Land & Ranch Company Lockhart Real Estate Lockhart Real Estate Meek Ranch Sales Western Hill Country Realty Phyllis Browning Land & Ranch Co. Meek Ranch Sales Texas Land & Ranch Company Phyllis Browning Land & Ranch Co. Texas Heritage Brokers Western Hill Country Realty Lockhart Real Estate Western Hill Country Realty Nelson Farm & Ranch Properties Davis Vernon Real Estate

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FOARD COUNTY

2,480± Acres

Property ID: 2675789

Davis Vernon Real Estate

Page 257

IRION COUNTY

941± Acres

Property ID: 2851636

Chip Cole, Ranch Broker

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JACK COUNTY KING COUNTY KING COUNTY KING COUNTY KINNEY COUNTY KINNEY COUNTY KINNEY COUNTY KINNEY COUNTY KINNEY COUNTY KINNEY COUNTY KINNEY COUNTY KINNEY COUNTY KINNEY COUNTY KINNEY COUNTY KNOX COUNTY RUNNELS COUNTY STEPHENS COUNTY STONEWALL COUNTY SUTTON COUNTY SUTTON COUNTY SUTTON COUNTY SUTTON COUNTY SUTTON COUNTY TAYLOR COUNTY TAYLOR COUNTY TOM GREEN COUNTY VAL VERDE COUNTY VAL VERDE COUNTY VAL VERDE COUNTY VAL VERDE COUNTY VAL VERDE COUNTY VAL VERDE COUNTY VAL VERDE COUNTY VAL VERDE COUNTY VAL VERDE COUNTY VAL VERDE COUNTY VAL VERDE COUNTY

352.43± Acres 4,332± Acres 4,130± Acres 2,102± Acres 1,832± Acres 1,477± Acres 1,392± Acres 952± Acres 917± Acres 874.47± Acres 722± Acres 641± Acres 435± Acres 225± Acres 12,158± Acres 743± Acres 4,000± Acres 11,262± Acres 4,264± Acres 2,617± Acres 2,380± Acres 285± Acres 247± Acres 1,233± Acres 342± Acres 272± Acres 13,200± Acres 8,600± Acres 7,800± Acres 5,650± Acres 4,046± Acres 3,900± Acres 2,141± Acres 1,124± Acres 1,032± Acres 630± Acres 302± Acres

Property ID: 2852067 Property ID: 2522154 Property ID: 2672087 Property ID: 1998971 Property ID: 2016559 Property ID: 2789799 Property ID: 2809245 Property ID: 2683777 Property ID: 2612166 Property ID: 1135402 Property ID: 1731158 Property ID: 2809252 Property ID: 2121270 Property ID: 2449811 Property ID: 1994779 Property ID: 2629350 Property ID: 2671640 Property ID: 2440160 Property ID: 2329223 Property ID: 2434095 Property ID: 2719357 Property ID: 2639353 Property ID: 2660560 Property ID: 2118597 Property ID: 2851959 Property ID: 2658623

Hoffman International Properties Republic Ranches Davis Vernon Real Estate Davis Vernon Real Estate Dulling Ranch Sales Perry Bushong Real Estate Tejas Properties Dulling Ranch Sales Tejas Properties Lockhart Real Estate Perry Bushong Real Estate Tejas Properties Tejas Properties Land InvesTex, LLC Vester Ranch Sales Dulling Ranch Sales Briggs Freeman Sotheby’s International Realty Chas S. Middleton and Son Texas Ranches For Sale Texas Ranches For Sale Texas Ranches For Sale Texas Ranches For Sale Texas Ranches For Sale Briggs Freeman Sotheby’s International Realty Hoffman International Properties FINDARANCH.COM Meek Ranch Sales Texas Land & Ranch Company King Land & Water Dulling Ranch Sales Phyllis Browning Land & Ranch Co. Texas Ranches For Sale Tejas Properties The Texas Ranch Company Ahern Ranches Western Hill Country Realty Ahern Ranches

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Property ID: 2522054 Property ID: 2031943 Property ID: 2003505 Property ID: 2329085 Property ID: 2897105 Property ID: 125937 Property ID: 2665481 Property ID: 920683 Property ID: 1540304 Property ID: 1058599

REGION 4 NORTHEAST TEXAS

PALO PINTO COUNTY

4,416.58± Acres | Property ID: 1544301 Coalson Real Estate Page 252

FRANKLIN COUNTY

LAMAR COUNTY

4,337± Acres | Property ID: 2672188 Republic Ranches Page 197

2,100± Acres | Property ID: 2464053 Century 21 Harvey Properties Page 204

ANDERSON COUNTY

645± Acres

Property ID: 2108667

Republic Ranches

Page 200

CAMP COUNTY

850± Acres

Property ID: 2869585

The duPerier Texas Land Man

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DENTON COUNTY DENTON COUNTY DENTON COUNTY DENTON COUNTY DENTON COUNTY ELLIS COUNTY FANNIN COUNTY FRANKLIN COUNTY GRAYSON COUNTY HOOD COUNTY HOOD COUNTY LAMAR COUNTY MONTAGUE COUNTY MONTAGUE COUNTY PALO PINTO COUNTY PALO PINTO COUNTY

652± Acres 623.21± Acres 111± Acres 50.28± Acres 15± Acres 414± Acres 659± Acres 327± Acres 79.46± Acres 2,083± Acres 995± Acres 837± Acres 1,330± Acres 213± Acres 570± Acres 432± Acres

Property ID: 2291645 Property ID: 2124972 Property ID: 2535255 Property ID: 2632423 Property ID: 2227996 Property ID: 2753307 Property ID: 1780710 Property ID: 2505931 Property ID: 2802984 Property ID: 2778818 Property ID: 2659152 Property ID: 2380566 Property ID: 2436035 Property ID: 2324554

Briggs Freeman Sotheby’s International Realty Briggs Freeman Sotheby’s International Realty Briggs Freeman Sotheby’s International Realty Briggs Freeman Sotheby’s International Realty Briggs Freeman Sotheby’s International Realty Republic Ranches Century 21 Harvey Properties Century 21 Harvey Properties Briggs Freeman Sotheby’s International Realty Briggs Freeman Sotheby’s International Realty Coalson Real Estate Republic Ranches Republic Ranches Country Connection and Dave Perry-Miller Real Estate Briggs Freeman Sotheby’s International Realty Briggs Freeman Sotheby’s International Realty

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Property ID: 2855124

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R

PARKER COUNTY

1,435.75± Acres

Property ID: 2807090

Coalson Real Estate

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PARKER COUNTY

618± Acres

Property ID: 2893481

Coalson Real Estate

Page 253

POLK COUNTY RED RIVER COUNTY RED RIVER COUNTY RED RIVER COUNTY RED RIVER COUNTY ROCKWALL COUNTY SOMERVELL COUNTY SOMERVELL COUNTY TYLER COUNTY TYLER COUNTY VAN ZANDT COUNTY

651± Acres 1,576± Acres 1,225± Acres 882± Acres 200± Acres 299.21± Acres 1,352± Acres 360± Acres 408.58± Acres 180± Acres 555± Acres

Property ID: 2718795 Property ID: 2268429 Property ID: 2268418

HomeLand Properties Century 21 Harvey Properties Century 21 Harvey Properties Briggs Freeman Sotheby’s International Realty Century 21 Harvey Properties Country Connection and Dave Perry-Miller Real Estate Republic Ranches Briggs Freeman Sotheby’s International Realty HomeLand Properties Ranch Investments Country Connection and Dave Perry-Miller Real Estate

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Property ID: 2472359 Property ID: 2864403 Property ID: 2613554 Property ID: 2383272 Property ID: 2862172 Property ID: 2543544 Property ID: 1999175

REGION 5 GULF COAST-BRAZOS

CALHOUN COUNTY

2,400± Acres | Property ID: 2809240 UC Jones Swenson Auction Marketing UC Strategic Client Services, LLC Superior Farm & Ranch Realty LLC Page 207

LAVACA COUNTY

1,558± Acres | Property ID: 2585925 La Gloria Land Company Page 256

LEON COUNTY

1,390± Acres | Property ID: 2860033 Republic Ranches Page 197

AUSTIN COUNTY

202.31± Acres

Property ID: 2678297

Bill Johnson & Associates Real Estate Company

Page 224

AUSTIN COUNTY

114± Acres

Property ID: 2328674

Texas First Real Estate

Page 268

AUSTIN COUNTY

93.8± Acres

Property ID: 2631949

Bill Johnson & Associates Real Estate Company

Page 224

CALHOUN COUNTY

104± Acres

Property ID: 1947900

Russell Cain Real Estate

Page 274

CALHOUN COUNTY

75± Acres

Property ID: 2482144

Republic Ranches

Page 199

DEWITT COUNTY

95± Acres

Property ID: 2809199

La Gloria Land Company

Page 256

FAYETTE COUNTY

88± Acres

Property ID: 2725212

Republic Ranches

Page 201

FORT BEND COUNTY

104± Acres

Property ID: 2627823

Tejas Properties

Page 239

FORT BEND COUNTY

48± Acres

Texas First Real Estate

Page 268

FORT BEND COUNTY

7.41± Acres

Property ID: 2793121

Superior Farm & Ranch Realty LLC

Page 206

FORT BEND COUNTY

6.57± Acres

Property ID: 2793096

Superior Farm & Ranch Realty LLC

Page 206

GRIMES COUNTY

165± Acres

Property ID: 2857930

Jacobs Properties

Page 203

GRIMES COUNTY

28± Acres

Property ID: 2302109

Markham Realty

Page 260

JACKSON COUNTY

2.34± Acres

Property ID: 2837533

Russell Cain Real Estate

Page 274

LAVACA COUNTY

10.6± Acres

Property ID: 2875995

Russell Cain Real Estate

Page 274

LIBERTY COUNTY

852± Acres

Property ID: 2859554

HomeLand Properties

Page 240

LIBERTY COUNTY

535± Acres

Property ID: 2771499

HomeLand Properties

Page 240

MADISON COUNTY

1,023± Acres

Property ID: 2716416

Jacobs Properties

Page 202

MADISON COUNTY

334± Acres

Property ID: 2836768

Republic Ranches

Page 200

MATAGORDA COUNTY

452.84± Acres

Property ID: 2807469

Russell Cain Real Estate

Page 274

MATAGORDA COUNTY

55.1± Acres

Property ID: 1095074

Meek Ranch Sales

Page 237

MATAGORDA COUNTY

55.1± Acres

Property ID: 1095082

Meek Ranch Sales

Page 237

MONTGOMERY COUNTY

176± Acres

Property ID: 2383958

Jacobs Properties

Page 203

VICTORIA COUNTY

633± Acres

Property ID: 2329689

La Gloria Land Company

Page 256

VICTORIA COUNTY

300± Acres

Property ID: 2833821

Superior Farm & Ranch Realty LLC

Page 206

WALKER COUNTY

549± Acres

Property ID: 2718496

Markham Realty

Page 260

WALKER COUNTY

425± Acres

Property ID: 2869696

HomeLand Properties

Page 241

WALKER COUNTY

150± Acres

Property ID: 2809163

La Gloria Land Company

Page 256

WALKER COUNTY

18.52± Acres

Property ID: 2536340

Markham Realty

Page 260

WALKER COUNTY

12.99± Acres

Property ID: 2744573

Markham Realty

Page 260

WALLER COUNTY

78± Acres

Property ID: 2790011

Bill Johnson & Associates Real Estate Company

Page 225

WASHINGTON COUNTY

941± Acres

Property ID: 2302157

Markham Realty

Page 260

WASHINGTON COUNTY

297.5± Acres

Property ID: 2302194

Markham Realty

Page 260

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WEBB COUNTY

10,844± Acres | Property ID: 2541837 Republic Ranches Page 196

MAVERICK COUNTY

7,200± Acres | Property ID: 2053854 The duPerier Texas Land Man Page 128

UVALDE COUNTY

5,753± Acres The duPerier Texas Land Man Page 131

ATASCOSA COUNTY

822± Acres

Property ID: 1631172

Land InvesTex, LLC

Page 157

ATASCOSA COUNTY

445± Acres

Property ID: 2088117

Dulling Ranch Sales

Page 169

ATASCOSA COUNTY

297± Acres

Property ID: 2634772

Dulling Ranch Sales

Page 169

BEE COUNTY

75± Acres

Property ID: 1683149

Republic Ranches

Page 199

BEXAR COUNTY

385± Acres

Property ID: 2766229

Texas Heritage Brokers

Page 264

COLORADO COUNTY

224± Acres

Property ID: 2557409

Deitra Robertson Real Estate, Inc.

Page 205

COLORADO COUNTY

92± Acres

Property ID: 2662299

5 Star Country Properties

Page 211

DIMMIT COUNTY

2,721± Acres

Property ID: 2574738

Dulling Ranch Sales

Page 166

DIMMIT COUNTY

700± Acres

Property ID: 2847087

Dulling Ranch Sales

Page 168

DUVAL COUNTY

1,835± Acres

Property ID: 2266986

Simpson Ranches and Land

Page 246

DUVAL COUNTY

998± Acres

Simpson Ranches and Land

Page 246

FRIO COUNTY

1,529± Acres

Property ID: 2639402

The Texas Ranch Company

Page 227

FRIO COUNTY

1,330± Acres

Property ID: 2597132

The Texas Ranch Company

Page 227

FRIO COUNTY

1,274± Acres

Property ID: 1021039

Simpson Ranches and Land

Page 247

FRIO COUNTY

996± Acres

Property ID: 1623357

Phyllis Browning Land & Ranch Co.

Page 184

FRIO COUNTY

874± Acres

Property ID: 1927119

La Gloria Land Company

Page 256

FRIO COUNTY

440± Acres

Property ID: 2879821

The Texas Ranch Company

Page 226

GUADALUPE COUNTY

35± Acres

Property ID: 2628159

Kuper Sotheby’s International Realty

Page 263

HILDAGO COUNTY

847± Acres

Property ID: 844579

Phyllis Browning Land & Ranch Co.

Page 183

JIM HOGG COUNTY

1,422.76± Acres

Property ID: 2849471

Texas Ranch Brokers

Page 259

JIM WELLS COUNTY

2,097± Acres

Property ID: 2505595

Dulling Ranch Sales

Page 169

JIM WELLS COUNTY

525± Acres

Property ID: 2134648

Phyllis Browning Land & Ranch Co.

Page 188

KARNES COUNTY

46± Acres

Property ID: 2045561

Land InvesTex, LLC

Page 154

KARNES COUNTY

9.5± Acres

Property ID: 2256247

Land InvesTex, LLC

Page 154

KLEBERG COUNTY

625± Acres

Property ID: 2251167

Ranch Investments

Page 218

LA SALLE COUNTY

2,367± Acres

Property ID: 2464166

Texas Heritage Brokers

Page 264

LA SALLE COUNTY

2,002± Acres

Property ID: 2721874

Hood Real Estate

Page 46

LA SALLE COUNTY

1,857± Acres

Property ID: 2128155

Texas Heritage Brokers

Page 264

LIVE OAK COUNTY

1,642± Acres

Property ID: 2483033

Dulling Ranch Sales

Page 169

LIVE OAK COUNTY

1,350± Acres

Property ID: 2857797

The Texas Ranch Company

Page 226

LIVE OAK COUNTY

32± Acres

Property ID: 1735442

Ranch Investments

Page 218

MAVERICK COUNTY

895± Acres

Property ID: 2780904

Foster Farm and Ranch

Page 214

MEDINA COUNTY

3,000± Acres

Property ID: 2259513

Republic Ranches

Page 65

MEDINA COUNTY

725± Acres

Property ID: 1728538

J. Gruber Properties

Page 234

MEDINA COUNTY

721± Acres

Property ID: 2509646

J. Gruber Properties

Page 235

MEDINA COUNTY

602± Acres

Property ID: 2679241

Phyllis Browning Land & Ranch Co.

Page 185

MEDINA COUNTY

600± Acres

Property ID: 2101469

J. Gruber Properties

Page 235

MEDINA COUNTY

545± Acres

Property ID: 2857363

Dulling Ranch Sales

Page 170

MEDINA COUNTY

440± Acres

Property ID: 2059607

Texas Land & Ranch Company

Page 147

MEDINA COUNTY

370± Acres

Property ID: 2302049

Texas Land & Ranch Company

Page 147

MEDINA COUNTY

283± Acres

Property ID: 2266738

J. Gruber Properties

Page 234

MEDINA COUNTY

214± Acres

Property ID: 1749504

Texas Land & Ranch Company

Page 147

MEDINA COUNTY

200± Acres

Property ID: 2550942

Texas Land & Ranch Company

Page 146

MEDINA COUNTY

175± Acres

Property ID: 2753361

J. Gruber Properties

Page 235

MEDINA COUNTY

128± Acres

Property ID: 2447552

Land InvesTex, LLC

Page 154

MEDINA COUNTY

110± Acres

Property ID: 2871077

Phyllis Browning Land & Ranch Co.

Page 187

MEDINA COUNTY

100± Acres

Property ID: 2082054

Texas Ranches For Sale

Page 164

UVALDE COUNTY

2,894± Acres

Property ID: 2792271

Dulling Ranch Sales

Page 167

UVALDE COUNTY

2,268± Acres

Property ID: 2266587

Foster Farm and Ranch

Page 76

UVALDE COUNTY

1,688± Acres

Property ID: 2598336

Texas Land & Ranch Company

Page 57

UVALDE COUNTY

1,200± Acres

Property ID: 2477134

Dulling Ranch Sales

Page 170

UVALDE COUNTY

1,180± Acres

Property ID: 2504067

Land InvesTex, LLC

Page 154

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1,055± Acres

Property ID: 1720806

Dulling Ranch Sales

Page 170

UVALDE COUNTY

724± Acres

Property ID: 2872435

Land InvesTex, LLC

Page 154

UVALDE COUNTY UVALDE COUNTY UVALDE COUNTY WASHINGTON COUNTY WASHINGTON COUNTY WASHINGTON COUNTY WEBB COUNTY WEBB COUNTY WEBB COUNTY WILSON COUNTY WILSON COUNTY ZAPATA COUNTY ZAPATA COUNTY ZAVALA COUNTY ZAVALA COUNTY ZAVALA COUNTY ZAVALA COUNTY ZAVALA COUNTY ZAVALA COUNTY

700± Acres 425± Acres 191± Acres 82± Acres 70± Acres 45± Acres 4,666± Acres 3,845.15± Acres 1,232± Acres 257± Acres 88± Acres 1,192± Acres 1,000.34± Acres 4,223± Acres 3,525± Acres 2,485± Acres 2,124± Acres 376± Acres 368± Acres

Property ID: 2847661 Property ID: 177099

Texas Land & Ranch Company Texas Land & Ranch Company Lockhart Real Estate 5 Star Country Properties 5 Star Country Properties 5 Star Country Properties Dulling Ranch Sales Foster Farm and Ranch Dulling Ranch Sales Land InvesTex, LLC Texas Heritage Brokers Foster Farm and Ranch Foster Farm and Ranch Republic Ranches Lockhart Real Estate Republic Ranches Texas Land Men Foster Farm and Ranch Dulling Ranch Sales

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Property ID: 2816014 Property ID: 2452484 Property ID: 2722831 Property ID: 1999111 Property ID: 1780776 Property ID: 2677535 Property ID: 2457045 Property ID: 2536134 Property ID: 1925268 Property ID: 2551941 Property ID: 2502312 Property ID: 1128254 Property ID: 2791800 Property ID: 1049617 Property ID: 2833765

REGION 7 HILL COUNTRY

COLEMAN COUNTY

6,200± Acres | Property ID: 2879612 Fredericksburg Realty LLC Page 140

BOSQUE COUNTY

3,745± Acres | Property ID: 1126304 Briggs Freeman Sotheby’s Int’l Realty Page 179

KENDALL COUNTY

3,160± Acres | Property ID: 2705323 LANDTX Page 61

BANDERA COUNTY

1,675± Acres

Property ID: 2833721

The duPerier Texas Land Man

Page 129

BANDERA COUNTY

1,350± Acres

Property ID: 2701785

Texas Land Men

Page 136

BANDERA COUNTY BANDERA COUNTY BANDERA COUNTY BANDERA COUNTY BANDERA COUNTY BANDERA COUNTY BANDERA COUNTY BANDERA COUNTY BANDERA COUNTY BANDERA COUNTY BANDERA COUNTY BANDERA COUNTY BANDERA COUNTY BANDERA COUNTY BANDERA COUNTY BANDERA COUNTY BANDERA COUNTY BANDERA COUNTY BANDERA COUNTY BANDERA COUNTY BANDERA COUNTY BANDERA COUNTY BANDERA COUNTY BANDERA COUNTY BANDERA COUNTY BASTROP COUNTY BASTROP COUNTY BASTROP COUNTY BELL COUNTY BELL COUNTY BLANCO COUNTY BLANCO COUNTY BLANCO COUNTY BLANCO COUNTY

1,330± Acres 624± Acres 458± Acres 436± Acres 335± Acres 327± Acres 327± Acres 320± Acres 317.91± Acres 310± Acres 308± Acres 304± Acres 304± Acres 304± Acres 300± Acres 284± Acres 227.34± Acres 156± Acres 89± Acres 47.28± Acres 44.73± Acres 27.53± Acres 25± Acres 24± Acres 9± Acres 500± Acres 368± Acres 234± Acres 48.6± Acres 43± Acres 1,561.55± Acres 831± Acres 831± Acres 665± Acres

Property ID: 2254029 Property ID: 1163912 Property ID: 1600901 Property ID: 2871057 Property ID: 1547552 Property ID: 2638313 Property ID: 2059549 Property ID: 2464187 Property ID: 2440186 Property ID: 2629288

Greg Tom Realty Texas Land Men Texas Land & Ranch Company Texas Land & Ranch Company Ahern Ranches Texas Land & Ranch Company Texas Land & Ranch Company Phyllis Browning Land & Ranch Co. Meek Ranch Sales Reno Realty Group The duPerier Texas Land Man Land InvesTex, LLC Phyllis Browning Land & Ranch Co. Texas Land & Ranch Company Texas Land Men Texas Land & Ranch Company Phyllis Browning Land & Ranch Co. Ranch Investments Foster Farm and Ranch Land InvesTex, LLC LoneStar Properties LoneStar Properties Texas Land Men Land InvesTex, LLC Land InvesTex, LLC Texas Land Men Phyllis Browning Land & Ranch Co. The duPerier Texas Land Man TX Rec Land Ranch Investments Moreland Properties Farm & Ranch Briggs Freeman Sotheby’s International Realty Dulling Ranch Sales Adkins & Associates

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Property ID: 2677908 Property ID: 1166420 Property ID: 2696961 Property ID: 2871566 Property ID: 2842100 Property ID: 2673076 Property ID: 2714150 Property ID: 1777300 Property ID: 2778825 Property ID: 2699543 Property ID: 2770823 Property ID: 2795020 Property ID: 1953234 Property ID: 2304504 Property ID: 2455585 Property ID: 2869690 Property ID: 2326236 Property ID: 2745355 Property ID: 1380169 Property ID: 1026028 Property ID: 2700794

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BLANCO COUNTY

561± Acres

BLANCO COUNTY

400± Acres

BLANCO COUNTY

187± Acres

BLANCO COUNTY

Property ID: 2553943

Dulling Ranch Sales

Page 171

Mark Fox Real Estate

Page 265

Property ID: 2819433

LANDTX

Page 192

171± Acres

Property ID: 2765430

Moreland Properties Farm & Ranch

Page 269

BLANCO COUNTY

100± Acres

Property ID: 2660441

Adkins & Associates

Page 249

BLANCO COUNTY

94± Acres

Property ID: 2637578

LANDTX

Page 194

BLANCO COUNTY

77± Acres

Property ID: 2549546

Mark Fox Real Estate

Page 265

BLANCO COUNTY

26± Acres

Property ID: 2838336

Hills of Texas Ranches

Page 275

BLANCO COUNTY

20± Acres

Property ID: 2382740

Phyllis Browning Land & Ranch Co.

Page 186

BLANCO COUNTY

2.23± Acres

Property ID: 2773089

Land InvesTex, LLC

Page 152

BOSQUE COUNTY

510± Acres

Property ID: 2868469

Briggs Freeman Sotheby’s International Realty

Page 176

BOSQUE COUNTY

317± Acres

Property ID: 2718380

Country Connection and Dave Perry-Miller Real Estate

Page 272

BOSQUE COUNTY

200± Acres

Property ID: 2858292

Republic Ranches

Page 201

BOSQUE COUNTY

130± Acres

Property ID: 2856271

Cobb Properties

Page 273

BROWN COUNTY

685± Acres

Property ID: 2472436

Perry Bushong Real Estate

Page 250

BURNET COUNTY

1,262± Acres

Property ID: 2789653

Texas Ranch Brokers

Page 259

BURNET COUNTY

640± Acres

Property ID: 2259275

Ranch Investments

Page 94

BURNET COUNTY

414± Acres

Property ID: 1016766

Jim Berry Hill Country Ranch Sales

Page 228

BURNET COUNTY

248.93± Acres

Property ID: 1762622

Texas Ranch Brokers

Page 259

BURNET COUNTY

235.51± Acres

Property ID: 2859361

Texas Ranch Brokers

Page 259

BURNET COUNTY

230± Acres

Property ID: 2611391

Texas Land & Ranch Company

Page 145

BURNET COUNTY

218± Acres

Property ID: 2634802

Mark Fox Real Estate

Page 265

BURNET COUNTY

206± Acres

Property ID: 1793932

Jim Berry Hill Country Ranch Sales

Page 228

BURNET COUNTY

187± Acres

Jim Berry Hill Country Ranch Sales

Page 229

BURNET COUNTY

178± Acres

Property ID: 1881054

Jim Berry Hill Country Ranch Sales

Page 229

BURNET COUNTY

157± Acres

Property ID: 2636319

Jim Berry Hill Country Ranch Sales

Page 229

BURNET COUNTY

150± Acres

Property ID: 1437571

Jim Berry Hill Country Ranch Sales

Page 229

BURNET COUNTY

100± Acres

Property ID: 2016390

Jim Berry Hill Country Ranch Sales

Page 229

BURNET COUNTY

56± Acres

Property ID: 2675806

Jim Berry Hill Country Ranch Sales

Page 228

BURNET COUNTY

26± Acres

Property ID: 2326687

Ranch Investments

Page 219

COLEMAN COUNTY

743± Acres

Property ID: 2693249

Liveoak Realtors

Page 278

ERATH COUNTY

101.35± Acres

Property ID: 2612531

Cobb Properties

Page 273

FALLS COUNTY

951± Acres

Property ID: 2050591

Briggs Freeman Sotheby’s International Realty

Page 177

FALLS COUNTY

478± Acres

Property ID: 2730653

Republic Ranches

Page 200

GILLESPIE COUNTY

950± Acres

Property ID: 2722682

Ahern Ranches

Page 68

GILLESPIE COUNTY

927± Acres

Property ID: 1921310

Texas Land Men

Page 134

GILLESPIE COUNTY

835± Acres

Property ID: 2480261

Platinum Ranches

Page 98

GILLESPIE COUNTY

520± Acres

Property ID: 1702408

Fredericksburg Realty LLC

Page 140

GILLESPIE COUNTY

208± Acres

Property ID: 2818347

Nixon Real Estate

Page 244

GILLESPIE COUNTY

151± Acres

Property ID: 2696739

Texas Ranches For Sale

Page 159

GILLESPIE COUNTY

138± Acres

Property ID: 1702451

Fredericksburg Realty LLC

Page 140

GILLESPIE COUNTY

131± Acres

Property ID: 1408111

Texas Ranches For Sale

Page 159

GILLESPIE COUNTY

90± Acres

Property ID: 1188067

Greg Tom Realty

Page 270

GILLESPIE COUNTY

89.45± Acres

Property ID: 2266719

Nixon Real Estate

Page 244

GILLESPIE COUNTY

68.37± Acres

Property ID: 2803355

Nixon Real Estate

Page 245

GILLESPIE COUNTY

65± Acres

Property ID: 2662618

Dulling Ranch Sales

Page 172

GILLESPIE COUNTY

60± Acres

Property ID: 2267269

Fredericksburg Realty LLC

Page 141

GILLESPIE COUNTY

55.54± Acres

Property ID: 2722580

Nixon Real Estate

Page 245

GILLESPIE COUNTY

40± Acres

Property ID: 63650

Reno Realty Group

Page 209

GILLESPIE COUNTY

30± Acres

Property ID: 1970041

Nixon Real Estate

Page 245

GILLESPIE COUNTY

28± Acres

Property ID: 2719046

Texas Ranches For Sale

Page 163

GILLESPIE COUNTY

25.31± Acres

Property ID: 2792618

Nixon Real Estate

Page 244

GILLESPIE COUNTY

8.22± Acres

Property ID: 2628919

Nixon Real Estate

Page 244

GILLESPIE COUNTY

7± Acres

Property ID: 2510364

Texas Ranches For Sale

Page 164

HAMILTON COUNTY

2,675± Acres

Property ID: 1725616

Dulling Ranch Sales

Page 171

HAMILTON COUNTY

434± Acres

Property ID: 2657722

Briggs Freeman Sotheby’s International Realty

Page 176

HAMILTON COUNTY

200± Acres

Property ID: 2267534

Cobb Properties

Page 273

HAMILTON COUNTY

95.66± Acres

Property ID: 2450229

Cobb Properties

Page 273

HAYS COUNTY

528± Acres

Property ID: 2724541

Phyllis Browning Land & Ranch Co.

Page 87

HAYS COUNTY

63± Acres

Property ID: 1956476

Texas Land Men

Page 138

HAYS COUNTY

40± Acres

Property ID: 2815733

Hills of Texas Ranches

Page 275

KENDALL COUNTY

801± Acres

Property ID: 2487688

Texas Ranch Land For Sale

Page 73

KENDALL COUNTY

753± Acres

Property ID: 2870936

Texas Ranches For Sale

Page 161

KENDALL COUNTY

645± Acres

The duPerier Texas Land Man

Page 130

KENDALL COUNTY

621± Acres

Property ID: 2483110

Texas Ranch Land For Sale

Page 217

KENDALL COUNTY

347± Acres

Property ID: 2582837

LANDTX

Page 194

KENDALL COUNTY

247± Acres

Property ID: 2125920

Texas Ranches For Sale

Page 160

KENDALL COUNTY

189± Acres

Property ID: 1696611

Reno Realty Group

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170± Acres

Property ID: 2632445

Texas Ranches For Sale

Page 161

KENDALL COUNTY

127± Acres

Property ID: 2267157

Texas Ranches For Sale

Page 161

KENDALL COUNTY

123± Acres

Property ID: 2031978

Land InvesTex, LLC

Page 153

KENDALL COUNTY

109± Acres

Property ID: 2134647

Phyllis Browning Land & Ranch Co.

Page 188

KENDALL COUNTY

106.94± Acres

Property ID: 1984932

Kuper Sotheby’s International Realty TX Hill Country

Page 173

KENDALL COUNTY

80± Acres

Property ID: 2796008

Simpson Ranches and Land

Page 247

KENDALL COUNTY

69± Acres

Property ID: 2841989

Texas Ranches For Sale

Page 163

KENDALL COUNTY

65± Acres

Property ID: 1535363

Texas Ranches For Sale

Page 165

KENDALL COUNTY

55.63± Acres

Property ID: 2858018

Hills of Texas Ranches

Page 275

KENDALL COUNTY

49± Acres

Property ID: 2032000

Phyllis Browning Land & Ranch Co.

Page 186

KENDALL COUNTY

43± Acres

Property ID: 2507720

Texas Ranches For Sale

Page 165

KENDALL COUNTY

31± Acres

Property ID: 2855943

Texas Ranches For Sale

Page 163

KENDALL COUNTY

29± Acres

Property ID: 2504920

Land InvesTex, LLC

Page 152

KENDALL COUNTY

21.91± Acres

Property ID: 1994731

LoneStar Properties

Page 276

KENDALL COUNTY

8.32± Acres

Property ID: 1670858

Land InvesTex, LLC

Page 152

KERR COUNTY

1,791± Acres

Property ID: 2523094

Hood Real Estate

Page 43

KERR COUNTY

1,205± Acres

Property ID: 2035263

Dulling Ranch Sales

Page 170

KERR COUNTY

851± Acres

Property ID: 2689002

Reno Realty Group

Page 208

KERR COUNTY

806± Acres

Property ID: 2118515

Texas Ranches For Sale

Page 160

KERR COUNTY

775± Acres

Property ID: 2862613

Dulling Ranch Sales

Page 172

KERR COUNTY

552± Acres

Property ID: 2053846

The duPerier Texas Land Man

Page 133

KERR COUNTY

431± Acres

Property ID: 1349648

Texas Ranch Land For Sale

Page 216

KERR COUNTY

405± Acres

Property ID: 1064333

Texas Land Men

Page 135

KERR COUNTY

396± Acres

Property ID: 2031761

The duPerier Texas Land Man

Page 132

KERR COUNTY

356± Acres

Property ID: 2871539

Texas Land Men

Page 137

KERR COUNTY

300± Acres

Property ID: 2053842

The duPerier Texas Land Man

Page 132

KERR COUNTY

297± Acres

Property ID: 1729735

LANDTX

Page 193

KERR COUNTY

291± Acres

Property ID: 1023133

The duPerier Texas Land Man

Page 133

KERR COUNTY

287± Acres

Property ID: 2053838

The duPerier Texas Land Man

Page 130

KERR COUNTY

223± Acres

Property ID: 2540702

Kuper Sotheby’s International Realty

Page 263

KERR COUNTY

200± Acres

Property ID: 2660410

The duPerier Texas Land Man

Page 131

KERR COUNTY

172± Acres

Property ID: 2507808

Kuper Sotheby’s International Realty

Page 263

KERR COUNTY

160± Acres

Property ID: 1184449

Reno Realty Group

Page 209

KERR COUNTY

153± Acres

Property ID: 2260333

Texas Ranches For Sale

Page 162

KERR COUNTY

136± Acres

Property ID: 1813113

Reno Realty Group

Page 208

KERR COUNTY

129.5± Acres

Property ID: 2381292

Texas Land Men

Page 135

KERR COUNTY

117± Acres

Property ID: 2268335

Reno Realty Group

Page 209

KERR COUNTY

110± Acres

Property ID: 2568570

Texas Ranch Land For Sale

Page 216

KERR COUNTY

100± Acres

Property ID: 2657629

Kuper Sotheby’s International Realty

Page 263

KERR COUNTY

69± Acres

Property ID: 1187419

Hood Real Estate

Page 52

KERR COUNTY

62± Acres

Property ID: 2387022

Reno Realty Group

Page 210

KERR COUNTY

40± Acres

Property ID: 2259498

Texas Land Men

Page 136

KERR COUNTY

30± Acres

Fredericksburg Realty LLC

Page 141

KERR COUNTY

23± Acres

Reno Realty Group

Page 208

KERR COUNTY

21± Acres

Fredericksburg Realty LLC

Page 141

KERR COUNTY

13± Acres

Fredericksburg Realty LLC

Page 141

KERR COUNTY

10± Acres

Property ID: 2604967

Texas Land Men

Page 134

KIMBLE COUNTY

1,100± Acres

Property ID: 2523327

Texas Land Men

Page 139

KIMBLE COUNTY

793± Acres

Property ID: 920404

Ahern Ranches

Page 212

KIMBLE COUNTY

648± Acres

Property ID: 2838216

Dulling Ranch Sales

Page 172

KIMBLE COUNTY

403± Acres

Property ID: 2858000

Bart Jones Real Estate

Page 277

KIMBLE COUNTY

295± Acres

Property ID: 1780873

Texas Ranches For Sale

Page 165

KIMBLE COUNTY

96± Acres

Property ID: 2614363

Texas Ranches For Sale

Page 162

LAMPASAS COUNTY

949± Acres

Property ID: 2781652

Phyllis Browning Land & Ranch Co.

Page 187

LAMPASAS COUNTY

920± Acres

Property ID: 2862476

Ranch Investments

Page 218

LAMPASAS COUNTY

400± Acres

Property ID: 1749522

Texas Ranch Brokers

Page 259

LAMPASAS COUNTY

167± Acres

Property ID: 2710162

Texas Land Men

Page 139

LEE COUNTY

403± Acres

Property ID: 2267117

TX Real Estate People

Page 278

LLANO COUNTY

180± Acres

Property ID: 2070173

The duPerier Texas Land Man

Page 128

LLANO COUNTY

30.9± Acres

Property ID: 2718796

Nixon Real Estate

Page 245

MASON COUNTY

2,159± Acres

Property ID: 2790135

LANDTX

Page 190

MASON COUNTY

1,711± Acres

Property ID: 2616611

LANDTX

Page 195

MASON COUNTY

447± Acres

Property ID: 2382754

LANDTX

Page 195

MASON COUNTY

305± Acres

Property ID: 2696031

Fredericksburg Realty LLC

Page 140

MASON COUNTY

61.07± Acres

Property ID: 2789782

Nine Bar Land & Cattle

Page 258

MASON COUNTY

60.49± Acres

Property ID: 2886540

Nine Bar Land & Cattle

Page 258

MCCULLOCH COUNTY

891± Acres

Property ID: 1181517

Ahern Ranches

Page 212

Property ID: 1294521

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MCCULLOCH COUNTY

625± Acres

Property ID: 2499700

The Texas Ranch Company

Page 226

MCCULLOCH COUNTY

480± Acres

Property ID: 2810016

Perry Bushong Real Estate

Page 251

MCCULLOCH COUNTY

301± Acres

Property ID: 1608212

Frosty Miller Ranch Realty

Page 261

MENARD COUNTY

889± Acres

FINDARANCH.COM

Page 262

MENARD COUNTY

200± Acres

Property ID: 2690947

Land InvesTex, LLC

Page 155

MENARD COUNTY

186± Acres

Property ID: 2481721

Nine Bar Land & Cattle

Page 258

MENARD COUNTY

95± Acres

Property ID: 2863893

Nine Bar Land & Cattle

Page 258

MILAM COUNTY

1,034± Acres

Property ID: 1946013

Briggs Freeman Sotheby’s International Realty

Page 177

MILAM COUNTY

869± Acres

Property ID: 1603986

TX Rec Land

Page 279

MILAM COUNTY

810± Acres

Property ID: 1191122

Ahern Ranches

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MILAM COUNTY

128.04± Acres

Property ID: 2820219

Texas Ranch Brokers

Page 259

MILLS COUNTY

1,050± Acres

Property ID: 2637987

Republic Ranches

Page 198

MILLS COUNTY

388± Acres

Property ID: 1720651

Frosty Miller Ranch Realty

Page 261

MILLS COUNTY

131± Acres

Property ID: 2612183

Frosty Miller Ranch Realty

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REAL COUNTY

2,000± Acres

Property ID: 2638534

Land & Ranch Realty

Page 243

REAL COUNTY

1,650± Acres

Property ID: 2638506

Land & Ranch Realty

Page 243

REAL COUNTY

1,000± Acres

Property ID: 2638546

Land & Ranch Realty

Page 243

REAL COUNTY

754± Acres

Property ID: 914150

Hood Real Estate

Page 49

REAL COUNTY

554± Acres

Property ID: 1886645

Tejas Properties

Page 239

REAL COUNTY

500± Acres

Property ID: 2638492

Land & Ranch Realty

Page 243

REAL COUNTY

300± Acres

Property ID: 2638537

Land & Ranch Realty

Page 242

REAL COUNTY

203± Acres

Property ID: 2080426

Reno Realty Group

Page 208

REAL COUNTY

197± Acres

Property ID: 2580564

Land & Ranch Realty

Page 242

REAL COUNTY

28± Acres

Property ID: 117888

Land & Ranch Realty

Page 242

REAL COUNTY

2.4± Acres

Property ID: 2638534

Land & Ranch Realty

Page 242

TRAVIS COUNTY

180± Acres

Mark Fox Real Estate

Page 265

NATIONAL LAND LISTINGS

COUNTIES BY STATE NEW MEXICO RIO ARRIBA SOCORRO

OKLAHOMA ELLIS

SOCORRO COUNTY, NM

44,804± Acres | Property ID: 2053919 Chas S. Middleton and Son Page 232

SOCORRO COUNTY, NM

7,520± Acres | Property ID: 2456080 Chas S. Middleton and Son Page 233

RIO ARRIBA COUNTY, NM

3,400± Acres | Property ID: 2679098 Chas S. Middleton and Son Page 232

ELLIS COUNTY, OK

12,962± Acres | Property ID: 2815542 Chas S. Middleton and Son Page 232

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