


Participating landowners receive annual payment rates of $2.00/acre for agricultural lands and $30.00/acre for perennial wildlife cover, such as wetlands, grasslands, brushlands, and forest. The OLHAP program uses part of those funds to pay landowners for hunters to access their property. As part of the 2018 Farm Bill, Ohio was awarded $1,831,500 to implement the new OLHAP program. This bill provides funding to state and tribal agencies through a competitive grant process to implement programs encouraging hunting access on private properties. This program is funded in part by the federal Farm Bill under their Voluntary Public Access and Habitat Incentive Program (VPA-HIP). The Ohio Landowner/Hunter Access Partnership (OLHAP) Program is a new way for Ohio hunters to get access to private properties. OLHAP report published! Find out what landowners and hunters think about the program here: Fall 2022 DNAP eNews - Prairie Restoration.Tree stands, bows and hunting structures also help prevent Hunting Pressure from building up in an area, as they produce only ¼ of Hunting Pressure when the animal dies. You can use this knowledge to search for a wounded animal, as most of the time they will leave a blood trail from that spot. Remember, the exact center of the Hunting Pressure will be the area where you first shot the animal. If you want to avoid Hunting Pressure from concentrating on an area, then do your best to not kill more than three (3) animals in that particular area. You will be able to easily identify Hunting Pressure on the map as it’s illustrated by colors ranging from grayish violet to glaring pink, all depending on the intensity of the Hunting Pressure in that area. However, the game has put a limit on the number of Hunting Pressure a map can have. So, players will need to keep track of their hunting area, as too much Hunting Pressure will remove Need Zones.
