Originally Posted by Ar1220
Originally Posted by slgunnel
I was once a member of a club in St Clair. The old St Clair WMA was leased to the state for $1.00 per year and was a tax write off. The state was supposed to maintain gates and roads, plant a certain number of food plots, and use biologists for herd management. The owner of the land gave the state several years to fix what was supposed to be done, but failed in every area. So, landowner pulled lease from the state and offered it to us since we already leased other land from him. I'm sure this still holds true for other WMAs that are being pulled and now clubs.

Just so happened the landowner and the game and fish commissioner was the same guy at the time


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I know the land would have never been managed the way he wanted it under the state. You should have seen the condition of it when we got it and compared it to just 5 years later. Night and day difference. But, you should have seen the do's and don't that came with the lease... loco

I know he became commissioner in 03, bought the land in 07, and we got it in 12 or 13. I always figured he was using MO to build it up the way he wanted and then pull it to either sell for big $$ or get a premium lease price. Genetics are there and I've seen some studs come off that land. Hasn't happened yet though, so who knows...


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