Sportsman's Guide to Access Yes!

Last Updated Thursday March 8, 2012

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Respect Private Property

Ask Permission
Leave Gates As You Found Them
Pack Out Your Trash
Be Courteous
Stay on Established Roads

Apply for a Super Hunt, all proceeds benefit Access Yes! (available January - July).

Complete an application for the Super Hunt drawing. Applications are available at license vendors, Fish and Game offices, by phone at 1-(800) 554-8685 or 1-(800) 824-3729, mail or online.

Voluntary donations are also accepted from hunters and anglers at all POSM locations.

Last year, the Access Yes! Program opened up 431,803 acres of private land and 470,165 acres of public land for sportsmen.

What is Access Yes!?

Access Yes! is a program designed to improve sportsmen's access to private land or through private land to public land by compensating willing landowners who provide access.

Ultimately, the goal is to provide access to 1,000,000+ acres of private land along with access through private land to thousands more acres of public land.

As of June 17, 2013, 93 Access Yes! Lease Agreements are currently active opening 318,083 private acres and 272,505 public acres.

Success through Partnerships!

The National Shooting Sports Foundation through the Hunting Heritage Partnerships Grant Program has partnered with the IDFG Access Yes! Program to obtain and secure access for sportsmen through private property to public ground.

Thank you to the National Shooting Sports Foundation, Private Landowners and the support of the Sportsmen of Idaho.

How to Use This Guide:

Pick a property from the list below or select an area from the map.
Review the landowner's access requirements. Carefully check:
- whether access is limited or unlimited (i.e. 5 hunters/day, unlimited, etc.)
- is landowner contact required
- when is access available (i.e. Aug. 1 - Dec. 31)
- what types of hunting or fishing opportunities are allowed
- what special restrictions exist (i.e. no fires or camping, travel only on existing roads, etc.)
- what special notes are included

Please act responsibly and respect private property. Your attention to landowner's requirements will help ensure a successful Access Yes! program for the sportsmen of today and tomorrow.

Best of luck and memories in your hunting and angling adventures!

Access Yes! 2013 Property List
Map of 2013 Access Yes! Properties

Access Yes! 2013 Property List

Region	Property	Description	Private Acres	Public Acres	Big Game	Upland Game	Small Game	Water- fowl	Trap	Fish
R1	Hugas Cr & St Joe River Basin	Forestland	28700	0	X		X	X	X	X
R1	Mica Creek Drainage on St Joe River	Forestland	23150	0	X	X	X	X	X	X
R1	Trout Cr, Caribou Cr Drainages	Forestlands	14760	0	X	X	X
R2	3 miles west of Genessee, off Cow Creek Road	408 acres dry cropland in CRP, 5 acres wetland and 2 acres grassland	414	0		X
R2	5 mile south of Moscow	Cropland, CRP and ponds	700	0	X	X	X
R2	Genesee Area	Dry cropland, rangeland, forestland, and CRP	11998	850	X	X	X	X	X
R2	Gifford	CRP, Forestland, Cropland	6712	0	X	X	X	X
R2	Petersen Loop	Dry Cropland, Forestland, Wetland, Waterways	2353	0	X	X	X
R2	Salmon River and Grave Creek	Rangeland	1040	0	X	X				X
R2	West of Waha and Miller Road - Ten Mile Canyon and Fields to the South	Ten Mile & side canyons rangeland (fenced with cattle at times). Fields to the south (Ten Mile drainage) farmed by No-Till or one pass system. All fields cropped every year. Seeded into preceding crops standing stubble.	2360	0	X	X	X
R2	Whitebird Hill and Joseph Plains/Boles	Rangeland and Forest	2914	3000	X	X	X
R3	A L Cattle - Dodson Pass	Dry rangeland, rolling hills with some brushy creek bottoms and timber pockets	1757	7000	X	X	X		X
R3	A L Cattle - Shirts Creek	Dry rangeland, rolling hills and some brushy creek bottoms	3551	7000	X	X	X		X
R3	Big Foot Bar Boat Ramp -Snake River	River access road, boat ramp, and parking area west of ditch.	3	0				X		X
R3	Black Canyon Grazing- Brownlee, Drybuck Creeks	Mixture of sage brush and bitterbrush, some timber and brushy creek bottoms	5700	3720	X	X	X	X	X	X
R3	Erskine-Boise River Dixie	Part of Island and north side shoreline on Boise River east of IDFG Dixie property.	15	0	X	X	X	X	X	X
R3	Fred Gallant Ranch-Bacon Creek	Mostly rangeland, some riparian areas, some hay ground and a two acre reservoir	993	320	X	X	X	X
R3	Mink - East Pine, Advent Gulch, Weiser River	Rangeland, riparian areas and some hay fields	6000	3000	X	X	X	X		X
R3	Osborn Ranch - Indian Valley	Rangeland	2871	0	X	X	X	X	X
R3	Osborn Ranch - New Meadows	Forest, Rangeland, Riparian, Meadow	732	1000	X	X	X	X	X	X
R3	Osborn Ranch - Six Mile Cr	Riparian mostly, some timber	290	0	X	X	X	X	X	X
R3	Payne Family Grazing- Pleasant Valley and Thomas Creek	Rangeland with Junipers, irrigated and dry cropland	3333	3000	X	X	X	X
R3	Van Deusen Ranch - Willow Ridge	Mostly rangeland with some brushy creek bottoms. 90% of the area was involved in a 2006 fire, but there are pockets of vegetation, especially in the riparian areas.	3757	7000	X	X	X
R3	Yoctorowic - Payette River	Payette River frontage with unimproved small watercraft boat ramp. Pasture with slough running through it.	60	0		X	X	X		X
R4	Arimo Corp.	Rangeland	15820	9345	X	X	X	X
R4	Bray Valley Ranch	Range - stream	2240	10000	X	X	X	X	X
R4	Brown Ranch, Inc.	Rangeland	2420	0	X	X	X	X
R4	Diamond A Livestock - Little Pilgrim Gulch	Road into Snake River access	40	400	X	X	X	X	X	X
R4	Dry Creek Cattle Assn.	Rangeland	1878	15000	X	X	X	X	X
R4	Faulkner Land & Livestock	Forest, Rangeland	3922	10000	X	X	X	X	X	X
R4	Faulkner Land & Livestock - Bliss Property	Irrigated cropland and dryland with large pond and Silver Creek water year round.	321	0	X	X	X	X	X	X
R4	Fish Creek Angus	Rangeland	1966	0	X	X	X	X	X
R4	Guerry, Inc.	Rangeland	8225	10000	X	X	X	X	X	X
R4	Gwinn Rice Ranch, Inc.	Irrigated and dryland cropland	3800	0	X	X	X	X
R4	Hammett Livestock	Rangeland	8232	10000	X	X	X	X		X
R4	Lazy "R" Ranch	CRP, Rangeland, irrigated cropland	1000	0	X	X	X	X		X
R4	Little Fish Creek Grazing Assoc.	Rangeland	4290	3600	X	X	X	X	X
R4	Mark Toone	Rangeland, irrigated fields	3435	4000	X	X	X	X	X	X
R4	Picabo Livestock	Rangeland	960	2000	X	X	X	X
R4	Pleasant Valley Grazing Association	Rangeland	10282	15000	X	X	X	X
R4	Raymond Baird	Rangeland	1440	1200	X	X	X	X
R4	Robert Gardner	Rangeland and improved pastures.	5640	3000	X	X	X	X
R4	Rock Creek	Rangeland, meadows, riparian, irrigated cropland.	9853	16000	X	X	X	X
R4	Shoshone Basin - Unit 54	Rangeland	10282	15000	X	X	X	X
R4	Spring Cove Ranch	Wetland and Pond	0	0	X	X	X			X
R4	Theron Fiscus	Rangeland	1500	3600	X	X	X	X	X
R4	Vernon Miller	Dry cropland.	3400	1220	X	X	X	X
R4	Wood River Land Trust - Draper Wood River Preserve	Rangeland, riparian habitat, floodplain, Big Wood River frontage	84	210						X
R4	Wood River Land Trust - Sheep Bridge Canyon	Rangeland, sagebrush-steppe, Big Wood River frontage	306	120	X	X	X	X	X	X
R5	American Falls - Sunbeam Area	CRP, dry cropland and rangeland	720	0	X	X	X	X	X
R5	Arbon - Dry Canyon and Lusk Loop	Rangeland, CRP and small amount or wetland.	4321	3000	X	X	X	X
R5	Arbon - South Valley	Irrigated and dry cropland, rangeland and CRP	6487	3000	X	X	X		X
R5	Arbon - Southeast Bench and Central Farm Ground	Rangeland, dry cropland, CRP and wetland	2310	1000	X	X	X	X	X
R5	Arbon - Southwest Bench	CRP and Dryland Grain	640	0	X	X	X		X
R5	Beaver Dams West of Grace	Rangeland	960	5000	X	X	X		X
R5	Bern	rangeland	647	0	X	X	X
R5	Black Canyon	CRP	154	0	X	X	X
R5	Cliff Canyon	Rangeland	600	4500	X	X	X
R5	Daniel's Reservoir	Dry cropland, CRP, rangeland	5010	4200	X	X	X		X	X
R5	Fox Hills Ranch	8 miles of fishing on the upper Blackfoot River.	2248	0						X
R5	Hillhouse Canyon	Rangeland and Forest	1120	5000	X	X	X		X
R5	Inkom - East Bench	CRP and rangeland	1270	1000	X	X	X		X
R5	Marsh Valley	A mix of irrigated and dry crops, pasture and CRP. Much of the property borders Marsh Creek	1348	0	X	X	X	X		X
R5	Maughan Road	Crops, rangeland, low elevation forest	720	5000	X	X	X	X
R5	McNabb Canyon	Rangeland/forestland	240	1000	X	X	X		X
R5	Moreland	CREP	340	0	X	X
R5	Pocatello - 2 and 1/2 Mile Road	Rangeland, dry cropland and CRP	3936	2560	X	X	X		X
R5	Portneuf River	River Frontage	33	0	X	X	X	X		X
R5	Robin	dryland crops, rangeland	454	200	X	X	X
R5	Rockland Valley - West	crops, CRP, rangeland	3486	2500	X	X	X
R5	Sugar Creek - TEMPORARY CLOSURE	Cropland, pasture, and maple hillsides	120	0	X	X	X
R5	Thomas Fork	Some cropland along the Thomas Fork, rangeland	996	40	X	X	X	X
R5	Wolverine Canyon - East	Forestland/rangeland and wetland	2200	4000	X	X	X		X	X
R5	Wolverine Canyon South Property	Rangeland, dry cropland, and wetlands.	9805	7000	X	X		X		X
R6	Bingham County, east of Firth, Blackfoot Mountains - Two miles west of Mt Taylor (Blackfoot Peak)	Mixed areas of CRP with groves of aspen, junipers. Rangelands with shrubs and sage. Seven springs with canyons and draws.	7778	360	X	X	X		X
R6	Bonneville County, Just south of Tex Creek WMA Between Bulls Fork and Willow Creek.	Mixed aspen, juniper, sage with CRP. Developed springs.	1080	80	X	X	X	X	X
R6	Bonneville County, Just south of Tex Creek WMA Between Bulls Fork and Willow Creek.	Mixed aspen, juniper, sage with CRP. Developed springs.	1080	80	X	X	X	X	X
R6	Dan Creek-Jumpoff Hill	Rangland, Timber, Mountain Shrub	7200	2800	X	X	X	X	X	X
R6	East of Ririe Reservoir/Meadow Creek Junction	Rangeland, CRP	1506	0	X	X	X			X
R6	East of Ririe Reservoir/Meadow Creek Junction	Rangeland, CRP	1506	0	X	X	X			X
R6	East of Ririe Reservoir/Meadow Creek Junction	Rangeland, CRP	1506	0	X	X	X			X
R6	Kilgore Area	Wetlands, Camas Creek, willows, sage brush	1086	300	X	X	X	X		X
R6	Kilgore Area	Wetlands, Camas Creek, willows, sage brush	1086	300	X	X	X	X		X
R6	North Teton River	Rangeland - river frontage	150	0	X	X	X	X		X
R6	North Teton River	Rangeland - river frontage	150	0	X	X	X	X		X
R6	Northwest of Tex Creek WMA	CRP, rangland, aspen and spruce. Elevation above 6,000 feet.	981	2000	X	X	X	X	X
R6	Northwest of Tex Creek WMA	CRP, rangland, aspen and spruce. Elevation above 6,000 feet.	981	2000	X	X	X	X	X
R6	Pine Creek Bench	Dryland farm, pasture next to timber	760	3000	X	X	X		X	X
R6	Pine Creek Bench	Dryland farm, pasture next to timber	760	3000	X	X	X		X	X
R7	Kirtley Creek, Lemhi River	Rangeland, irrigated cropland, wetland, riparian	5809	8000	X	X	X	X		X
R7	McDevitt Creek Ranch	Irrigated and dry cropland; rangeland	1100	6000	X	X	X		X
R7	Mustang Road Access Area	Irrigated cropland, dry cropland, sagebrush	760	0	X	X	X		X
R7	Upper Lemhi Access Area	Unit 29 - Timber, meadows and sagebrush Unit 30 - River bottom meadows and riparian area Unit 30A - High elevation riparian, meadows, sagebrush	7140	30000	X	X	X	X	X	X

Map of 2013 Access Yes! Properties

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