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<blockquote data-quote="Retired Educator" data-source="post: 148567" data-attributes="member: 3373">I own some land that has a FWS easement. Wasn't me who signed the easement but am stuck with it. The only issue I have had with them is an argument over a drainage ditch. FWS does not like drainage ditches and I was able to win the argument because the ditch was on the original maps and you are allowed to maintain said ditches as long as you don't make them deeper. Didn't spend much money winning the argument, just some time finding the maps in the Soil Conservation Offices. Never have they told me I could not plant trees, or hunt or even had a problem of any crop planted (never tried cannibas). Loss of wetlands had been their only issue. That said, buying hunting land is a huge gamble. Waterfowl aren't generally in the habit of spending a whole season on 1/4 of land, especially if they get shot at occasionally.&nbsp; A quarter of heavily forested land would hold a better number of deer, especially with some food plots than a 1/4 of prairie type land. Then again if the 1/4 is surrounded by some other good habitat that would add to the population in the overall area that could work out.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Retired Educator, post: 148567, member: 3373"] I own some land that has a FWS easement. Wasn't me who signed the easement but am stuck with it. The only issue I have had with them is an argument over a drainage ditch. FWS does not like drainage ditches and I was able to win the argument because the ditch was on the original maps and you are allowed to maintain said ditches as long as you don't make them deeper. Didn't spend much money winning the argument, just some time finding the maps in the Soil Conservation Offices. Never have they told me I could not plant trees, or hunt or even had a problem of any crop planted (never tried cannibas). Loss of wetlands had been their only issue. That said, buying hunting land is a huge gamble. Waterfowl aren't generally in the habit of spending a whole season on 1/4 of land, especially if they get shot at occasionally. A quarter of heavily forested land would hold a better number of deer, especially with some food plots than a 1/4 of prairie type land. Then again if the 1/4 is surrounded by some other good habitat that would add to the population in the overall area that could work out. [/QUOTE]

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