Hey gang-

I’m Nic, the founder and CEO of LandTrust.

Hunting on private land has gotten a bad rap over the last few years, but it shouldn’t. Hunting private land is awesome.

It’s incredibly enjoyable to get out on a piece of ground and not have to compete with a bunch of other hunters. You get the opportunity to experience unpressured wildlife. You get to hunt a property exactly how you want to. Most importantly, you can relax and enjoy the peace, quiet, and beauty of the outdoors with your friends and family, which is why most of us hunt.

But getting access to hunt private land changed.

Over the past couple of decades, getting permission to hunt on private land has gotten harder and harder. There are many reasons for this, but a few of the main ones are the changing demographics of landowners, a more lawsuit-happy society, and, most importantly, from my perspective, the loss of huntable lands to development. This has led to more demand for the shrinking amount of huntable private lands.

Before LandTrust, if you wanted to hunt private land consistently, you either needed to own it, marry into it, lease it, or put a bunch of miles on doorknocking and cross your fingers. If you wanted to hunt private land in other states, you were essentially limited to going with an outfitter, which wasn’t a great option for those of us who simply wanted DIY access.

This has led to resentment from hunters towards landowners, outfitters, and even other hunters who lease land.

Since 2019, the team here at LandTrust has been working tirelessly to make DIY private land hunting access as simple and affordable as possible while creating a win-win for hunters and landowners.

Over that time, we’ve listened to feedback from sportsmen who’ve booked thousands of trips across the country, which has led us to create the LandTrust+ premium membership.

With LandTrust+, we wanted to give the modern DIY private land hunter the ultimate toolkit to plan and book amazing hunting experiences with confidence.

We took some of the best insider benefits that employees working at LandTrust enjoy, like seeing new properties before they come online, getting game cam photos and updates from landowners, and gear discounts from our favorite brands, and decided to turn them into products that LT+ members could also have.

LT+ is what we at LandTrust want to use every day and what we want to share with you.

We can’t wait to hear what you think and don’t be shy on giving us feedback on how to improve.

Founder & CEO