Posted in Farm Management, Land Ownership, Partnerships, co-ownership, ending co-ownership, purchasing real estate, real estate, selling land, tagged ending co-ownership, partitian, undivided interest on May 4, 2008 | 1 Comment »
The situation
Ten parcels of ranch property owned by one partnership with about 25 members, one LLC with three members, a family trust with 20 heirs and four individuals including one who was deceased and still on title.
That was the status of our ranch in year 2003. We owned an undivided interest equivalent to 949 [...]
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Posted in Archery hunting, Big game hunting, Deer hunting, Farm Management, Hunting, Hunts with a Professional Hunter or Outfitter, Land Ownership, Ranch Management, Wildlife habitat, goose, mule deer, outdoors, wildlife conservation, wildlife management on January 26, 2008 | No Comments »
On a recent hunting trip in Alberta, I was surprised to learn that in Alberta, the government does not permit land owners to lease hunting rights to other people, in other words the hunting rights cannot be segregated from the land and sold to somebody else on a periodic basis. However, my guide could hunt [...]
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The racket emanating from the quarter-mile away brush patch was drawing attention from flocks of crowing crows joining in the ruckus like a Las Vegas crowd at an Ali -Fraser boxing match, but the seats were free. Screaming and growling two big cats were having it out.
I stood by the ranch gate, a witness [...]
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Posted in California Delta, Duck hunting, Ecology, Farm Management, Hunting, Land Ownership, Wildlife habitat, goose, outdoors, permanent marsh, pheasant, real estate, seasonal marsh, wildlife, wildlife conservation, wildlife management on January 13, 2008 | No Comments »
After a morning of enthusiastic and exhausting pheasant hunting, with a bird each in the bag, Rob and I trudged through a final field of marsh on our way back to camp.
I glanced over to my brother, and he pointed skyward – above our main duck hunting pond. A large flock of mallards was circling [...]
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Posted in Archery hunting, Big game hunting, Deer hunting, Duck hunting, Farm Management, Hunting, Land Ownership, Partnerships, Ranch Management, Wildlife habitat, outdoors, real estate, selling land, wildlife conservation, wildlife management on January 12, 2008 | No Comments »
(Caption: The size of the pond and the catch vary with ”the beholder.” 
The small sycamore tree stood atop a 20 foot high mound where it had been spared by quarry equipment. It remained an island in an otherwise barren gravel pit. From our vantage point, my brother, Rob, and I could see a valley quail sitting atop [...]
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Caption: yellow nutsedge, chufa or nutgrass
The phone rang.
It was my friend Ed with a question about the types of duck food he had found in the mallards he shot the day before.
“These ducks are all full of natural duck foods,” he stated. “What’s the big nut-like object I found in the craw of [...]
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In the summer of 1992, I published a real estate newsletter. One of the areas of discussion was related to the benefits of partnerships. In that summer’s issue, I wrote the following:
There are several ways that one can hold title to real estate. One of the common methods of taking title, when there is [...]
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Posted in Ecology, Farm Management, Hunting, Land Ownership, Ranch Management, Wildlife habitat, outdoors, selling land, wildlife conservation, wildlife management, tagged Hunting conservation, Land Ownership on December 27, 2007 | 1 Comment »
Hunting partner, Tom Billingsley, and I arrived at the Web Tract ferry about 8:45 on Saturday morning Dec 1. One truck was in line ahead of us and the driver hopped out of his truck as we pulled up.
“I’ve been here since 8 O’clock,” he bellowed. “There was no 8 O’clock ferry and if it [...]
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Posted in Duck hunting, Ecology, Farm Management, Land Ownership, Ranch Management, Wildlife habitat, hunting dogs, outdoors, wildlife conservation, wildlife management, tagged Hunting conservation on December 23, 2007 | No Comments »
The silence over the duck ponds made a statement about the quality of the hunting. No ducks, no shooting. OK, there were a few ducks overhead, but not very many.
The decoys sat motionless in the still air. A light fog settled in as the sun began to appear like a soft white light creating an [...]
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