CHAP provides free public access to private land. Landowners control the number of hunters that access their land. Landowners are paid based on the number of hunters that use their land.

The Walk-In Area program leases the hunting rights on private land with a primary goal to provide the best possible free public hunting access to high quality game habitat with the available budget. It is delivered statewide by 44 local widlife conservation officers and one private lands resource biologist.

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...