661 Avenue, Rulo, NE 68431

Located roughly 1.5 miles from Rulo in Richardson County, Nebraska, this 56.38 +/- acre property sits in the heart of the Missouri River flyway. The tract is enrolled in a perpetual USDA Natural Resources Conservation Service (NRCS) Emergency Watershed Protection floodplain easement. The easement exists to restore, protect, and enhance floodplain, wetland, and riparian habitat for fish and wildlife, so the cover on this ground stays in place for good rather than rotating with a crop plan or giving way to development. The habitat serves several kinds of hunting on one tract. Cover across the property offers quality upland bird habitat and secure bedding for whitetails, while its river-bottom location draws waterfowl moving along the Missouri. Access is secluded, so you can get in and out without pushing birds or bumping deer, or the threat of road hunting, which matters on a property this size. The Missouri River corridor is one of the primary migration routes for ducks and geese in the country. Across the river near Mound City, Missouri, Loess Bluffs National Wildlife Refuge sits at a funnel point between the Central and Mississippi flyways and regularly holds hundreds of thousands of snow geese and more than 100,000 ducks during fall migration. Under the easement, NRCS also holds the right, at its own expense, to restore wetland function and apply additional water to the easement area to improve wetland and wildlife values. The new owner keeps record title, quiet enjoyment, and control of access, along with the right to hunt the property and to lease those rights for income. The easement does restrict farming, haying, grazing, timber harvest, building, and earthwork such as draining or impounding, and the owner remains responsible for property taxes and noxious weed control. Access is from the county road by way of an ingress/egress easement. Rulo, 1.5 miles away, has a public boat ramp on the Missouri River, and Falls City, the county seat, is about 8 miles west of Rulo. Indian Cave State Park, a 3,000-plus-acre public area along the river, lies to the north. Offered at $4,250 per acre, this is an opportunity to own permanently protected river-bottom habitat in southeast Nebraska. Call Luke Wallace at Whitetail Properties for more information or to schedule a showing.