From ag exemption to wildlife exemption,
without the guesswork.
Here’s the entire journey — what Texas law requires, what your appraisal district expects, and what we do at every step so nothing falls through the cracks.
Week one · 15 minutes
Confirm your land qualifies
Wildlife management valuation is a conversion, not a fresh start: your land must already hold a 1-d-1 open-space agricultural or timber valuation when you switch. Answer a few questions — county, acreage, current valuation, any recent changes in tract size — and we confirm your eligibility and flag anything your county handles differently.
Week one · about an hour
Build your PWD‑885 wildlife management plan
The plan is the heart of the exemption — TPWD’s form PWD‑885, describing your property, target species, and the practices you’ll perform. Our builder asks plain-English questions (“What do you want more of on your land — deer, turkey, quail, songbirds?”) and assembles a plan matched to your ecoregion’s intensity standards, with the 3+ practices that make sense for your ground.
By April 30
File with your county appraisal district
Between January 1 and April 30, you file the open-space application (Comptroller Form 50‑129) with your PWD‑885 attached, to your county appraisal district. We generate the packet, give you county-specific filing instructions, and set reminders so the window never closes on you. Late applications are possible until the appraisal roll is certified, but carry a penalty — so we don’t let it come to that.
All year · minutes at a time
Do the practices. Log them as you go.
This is where spreadsheets die and exemptions get lost. You need at least 3 of the 7 qualifying practices performed at your region’s intensity, every year. The app turns your plan into a seasonal checklist — fill the feeder, check the guzzler, run the fall spotlight survey — and each log takes under a minute: tap the task, snap a photo, done. Everything is date-stamped and organized by practice.
When the district asks — often annually
Generate your PWD‑888 annual report
Chief appraisers may request an annual report on TPWD form PWD‑888 — many districts do so every year. Ours takes one click: the year’s logged activities, dates, and photo evidence flow into the report format districts expect. Review, sign, submit. Your valuation holds; your savings continue.
The whole year on one page
Here’s the same process as a calendar — the filing window, the practice seasons, and the report. It’s also downloadable if you want it pinned above the desk.
What you get
A system, not a stack of forms.
- Eligibility check with county-specific minimums and quirks
- PWD‑885 plan builder tuned to your ecoregion’s standards
- Filing packet & instructions for your appraisal district
- Seasonal task engine that turns your plan into doable work
- Photo & GPS logging from any phone, offline-friendly
- PWD‑888 generator and a five-year evidence vault
- Deadline guardrails — we never let April 30 surprise you
Who this is for
Built for the land you actually own.
New land, inherited land
You bought or inherited acreage with an ag exemption and no desire to lease cattle. Convert it to wildlife before the exemption slips away.
Tired of livestock math
The lease income never covered the fence repairs anyway. Manage for deer and songbirds instead — same taxes, better weekends.
Already on wildlife
You have the valuation but the records live in a shoebox. Get audit-ready before the district’s next request, not after.
Fifteen minutes from now, you’ll have a draft plan.
Start free. See your county’s requirements, your recommended practices, and your draft PWD‑885 before you pay for anything.
No credit card required · 15 minutes to a draft plan · Cancel anytime