Access Programs

Profiles of hunter access programs. Click on the program name for more information. To narrow results, select fields at right and click "apply," or use the advanced search

Landowner Relations Program

Arizona Game & Fish Department

The Landowner Relations Program has primary responsibility within the Department for working with the state's private landowners. The program has grown significantly in recent years offering new alternatives and larger projects to all the cooperators. The focus on offering more to our partners requires capitalizing on outside funding sources that have allowed the LRP to more than quadruple the budget of the program. The current program effectively implements more than $2 million annually...

More Places to Hunt

National Wild Turkey Federation

More Places to Hunt is an NWTF program designed to help provide more hunting opportunities on public and private property. The NWTF already has spent $9.4 million and helped obtain more than 413,000 acres of land for hunters since 1987. This program builds upon our chapter’s success, and allows the NWTF to coordinate with partners to accomplish even more.

Through this program the NWTF works with our chapters, state widlife agencies, federal land management agencies, and other...

Access and Habitat Program

Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife

The Access and Habitat (A&H) Program’s motto, "Landowners & Hunters Together for Wildlife," conveys the program’s basic mission to foster partnerships between landowners and hunters for the benefit of the wildlife they both value. The program also seeks to recognize and encourage the important contributions made by landowners to the state’s wildlife resources — stewardship that affects about 42 percent of Oregon’s land base.

Private Land Open To Sportsmen (PLOTS)

North Dakota Game and Fish Department

Private Land Initiative (PLI) – The North Dakota Game and Fish Department’s mission is to protect, conserve, and enhance fish and wildlife populations and their habitats for sustained public use. The Private Land Initiative is the Department’s overall mechanism for applying this mission onto the private landscape of North Dakota.
The PLI has three main goals:
1) Conservation of habitats for fish and wildlife populations.
2) Provide landowners interested in wildlife

Walk-In Access

Utah Division of Wildlife Resources

What is the Walk-in Access program?
Managed by the Utah Division of Wildlife Resources (DWR), the Walk-in Access program pays private landowners to allow public access to their properties. Traveling on foot, hunters, anglers and wildlife watchers can enter and use the land without obtaining special permission or paying a separate fee. This partnership between the state and private landowners helps maintain important wildlife habitat on private lands and improves public access for...

Cooperative Wildlife Management Unit

Utah Division of Wildlife Resources

Cooperative Wildlife Management Units (CWMUs, are hunt areas consisting of mostly private lands that have been authorized for the specific purpose of cooperatively managing big game animals with private landowners.
CWMUs, list specific hunt dates that can be found on our website at http://wildlife.utah.gov/cwmu/index.php these dates have been selected to allow the public a fair...

Conservation Reserve Program--Management Access Program

Nebraska Game and Parks Commission

This program leases all hunting rights from a participating landowner. All tracts have at least a base of CRP, WRP or other similar conservation program. The program also seeks to make periodic improvements to the land through increases in early successional habitat. There are currently about 180,000 acres enrolled throughout the state.

Open Fields and Waters

Nebraska Game and Parks Commission

This program is tailored to the needs of emerging and lapsed hunters. Read more on our website.

Passing Along the Heritage -- PATH

Nebraska Game and Parks Commission

This is a youth hunting access program. Access is limited to youth and non-hunting mentors. Sites are very restricted and permission is granted via the internet for an individual day of hunting. Nebraska's Hunting by Written Permission Only law allows for the on-line permission slip.

Private Lands Access Program

Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife

The Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife reaches agreements with private landowners to allow the public access to their property. These agreements are typically for hunting, although can also include other outdoor recreation such as fishing. While the majority of lands currently in the program are farming and ranching lands, industrial timberlands are also made available through the program.

Four main types of landowner agreements are used, including:
* Feel Free To Hunt:...

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