DOVE LEASES, 1: Landowners - make extra money while 
supporting a Texas tradition - we'll tell you how on 
Passport to Texas.
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Passport to Texas from Texas Parks and Wildlife and the 
Wildlife Restoration Program

Attention landowners. Texas Parks and Wildlife's Public 
Hunting coordinator, Vickie Fite, wants to hear from you.
 
The public hunting program not only offers opportunity for 
hunters, but we also offer opportunity for landowners to make 
some extra money to lease their property in short-term leases 
to the department. If you were to take a triangle and draw it 
into the middle of the state; starting at Dallas, going down 
Interstate 45 over to Houston, heading west on I-10 to San 
Antonio, and then back up to Dallas - that's the area we're 
targeting. However, if other landowners are interested 
throughout the state, they should give us a call also to find out 
about the program. We're looking for properties that are at 
least fifty acres or larger; usually we like to keep them to less 
than 400 acres. We like good access to the property, as far as 
easy to find for the hunter to get out there to the property, 
water, a food source and cover to attract the birds. When the 
landowner calls us, we're going to ask a few questions, get their 
name and their phone number and information about the 
property. Then we will put them in touch with one of our 
biologists. The biologist - if the land meets the criteria - will 
follow up with an inspection and possibly a land lease. :55

Log onto the Texas Parks and Wildlife Web site for more 
information on how you can get involved.

That's our show ... supported by the Wildlife Restoration 
Program ... helping to fund the operations and 
management of more than 50 wildlife management 
areas ... 

For Texas Parks and Wildlife ... I'm Cecilia Nasti.