The new 2020-2021 Stubble Access Guide highlights more than 40,000 additional acres of wheat and milo stubble and adjacent upland habitat land open for public access hunting in western Nebraska.
Wheat and milo stubble left tall after harvest provides fall and winter wildlife habitat and excellent hunting opportunities. Many stubble fields also include unfarmable pockets containing dense cover, which are often underutilized by hunters.
After harvest each year, these fields are enrolled in Open Fields and Waters — a program in which the Nebraska Game and Parks Commission works with landowners to increase public hunting, trapping and/or fishing access on private lands.
The Stubble Access Guide displays these tracts of land, as well as other publicly accessible lands available for walk-in hunting garnered after publication of the well-known Public Access Atlas, and is available where hunt permits are sold.
The guide can be viewed in digital and interactive versions of the Public Access Atlas, and is updated throughout hunting seasons. To request brochure copies, click here.