I put in an offer on a large farm with the hopes of building a lake a couple of months ago. I found out that due to the size of the project, it was going to have to be approved and designed by the Corps of Engineers. They said it would be a minimum of 5 years to jump through all the hoops and could take 8 or more years to complete. Thankfully, the owner countered my original offer and that allowed me to run away from that deal as fast as I could. I would bet a project of that size would have some similar requirements. Maybe you still have a chance of this taking a lot longer.
Here's hoping that's the case. As I said, though, it isn't really going to impact my hunting that much. It'll sure have an impact on Josh's hunting though. We've agreed that if there is any delay and they aren't cutting timber when the season opens on the 15th, we'll hunt hard until they start. Sure would be nice if one of us could connect on Ghost before they drive him out of there. Those giants aren't going to stick around once the activity starts.
Gotcha, did I see it is 300 acres? I could have misread the "300 parcel" line in OP as such now looking back on it as well.
I see where I went wrong now. The misunderstanding is my fault. The owner does indeed own 300 contiguous acres, but it's not all wooded. The wooded area where the best hunting is to be found is located right around where my daughter and son in law live. Also, studying the satellite imagery, it looks like that section should be closer to 80 acres with almost 40 acres of woods. My son in law might be exaggerating the impact this will have. He does tend to have a pessimistic outlook on most things. Without doubt it will have a devastating impact on this season, starting with surveying crews and then timber removal, but if the lake is indeed going to be 25 acres and if he leaves any woods intact, next year should be very promising.
You say there is quite some acreage that is pretty low near creek bottoms? Wetlands? I know here in Indiana, a quick call to the environmentalist/forestry department will have a potential clearing operation shut down until they come in and figure out if it is wetlands habitat or not. Had a farmer going around and buying thousands of acres and clearing entire parcels of woods on every property. Alot of times he would buy up an entire square mile and bulldoze entire habitats. Sent from my SM-A505U using Tapatalk
Little Chief this comment has nothing to do with you. I can not believe the obstructionist mindset some people have here. The guy bought the land, the guy paid the taxes on the land, the guy owns the land. As long he has the permits he has every right to do what ever the hell he wants with his land. Yeah it sucks that people might lose hunting opportunities but they are rented opportunities. You want to dictate what happens on a piece of property buy your own.
