HIGH LONESOME LAND CO.
Llano County · Texas Hill Country · Est. 2026
The Central Texas Hill Country region just hit an all-time record high of $8,040 per acre. Over a thousand new landowners enter this market every year. Most of these new landowners live two hours away in Houston, Austin, Dallas, or San Antonio — and most have no reliable professional or advisor managing the land they just invested in. High Lonesome is building the Hill Country's first full-service land stewardship company. We are in the final stages of launch and accepting early inquiries from landowners, brokers, and investors. If you're searching for a Texas wildlife exemption, a wildlife management plan for your Hill Country property, or a ranch property manager you can actually trust — you've found the right place.
What We Do
Four services. One operator. Everything your Hill Country property needs.
Wildlife Management Plans & Tax Exemption Filing
The Texas wildlife exemption (wildlife tax valuation under Section 1-d-1) saves most Hill Country landowners $3,000–$9,000 per year in property taxes — but qualifying requires a formal 5-year wildlife management plan filed with your county appraisal district by April 30. We write the plan, document your qualifying practices, and file it on your behalf. If you purchased Hill Country land in the last 12 months and haven't filed, the deadline is closer than you think.
The April 30 deadline for Texas wildlife exemption filing is the most commonly missed financial opportunity in Texas recreational land ownership.
Ranch Property Manager — Ground Level, Year Round
High Lonesome serves as your dedicated ranch property manager — the trusted person on the ground who handles everything your property needs between your visits. You bought the land. You don't live there. Between visits, feeders run dry, water systems fail, fences come down, and gates get left open. We provide monthly on-the-ground management — feeder maintenance, game camera pulls, water and well checks, fence and gate inspection, and a detailed photo report delivered directly to you. You stay connected to your investment without having to be there. We handle everything else.
Properties with documented management history consistently command premium pricing over comparable unmanaged land.
Habitat Work, Cedar Management & Fence Certification
Cedar encroachment is the defining land management challenge on the Edwards Plateau. Left unmanaged, it collapses native grass cover, suppresses water table recharge, and reduces wildlife carrying capacity within a decade. We design and install food plots for deer, turkey, and quail; manage cedar and brush through cedar clearing and licensed herbicide application; conduct TPWD fence certification for ranches releasing breeder whitetails; and assess and manage stock tanks and water features. This is the physical work that protects and builds the long-term value of your land.
Cedar encroachment has reduced groundwater recharge across the Edwards Plateau by an estimated 30% over the past century — Texas A&M AgriLife
Property Tax Optimization & Cost Segregation
Most ranch buyers search for 'property tax exemption ranch' solutions without knowing that cost segregation is the most powerful financial tool available to them at closing. When you close on a Hill Country ranch, your improvements — fencing, wells, barns, roads, solar systems, wildlife facilities — are bundled into a 39-year depreciation schedule by default. A cost segregation study reclassifies those components to 5, 7, or 15-year property. With 100% bonus depreciation now permanently restored, reclassified assets are fully deductible in Year 1. On a typical $1.5M Hill Country closing with $400,000 in improvements, that's $40,000–$90,000 in immediate tax savings that most buyers never capture. We coordinate the study with licensed CPAs and engineers and deliver the results under one roof.
Most new Hill Country ranch buyers have no idea this opportunity exists. That is the gap we fill.
The Numbers Behind Why We're Building This Now
Every one of those 1,062 annual closings creates an immediate need for a Texas wildlife exemption plan, a ranch property manager, and for sophisticated buyers, a property tax strategy that most closing attorneys never mention.
All-time record high, Austin-Waco-Hill Country region
Source: Texas A&M TRERC, Q2 2026
New landowners entering the Hill Country market, generating $425M in annual transactions
Source: Texas A&M TRERC
Estimated share of recreational tracts in Llano, Mason, and Blanco counties without active professional management
Source: High Lonesome Land Co. market analysis
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"The Hill Country doesn't need more absentee owners. It needs better stewards."
— High Lonesome Land Co.