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Please Note: Bidding is PER ACRE at $25 per acre increments. Starting Bid is $1,000 per acre x 80 Acres = $80,000. Quality Waterfowl & Deer Hunting Property -This well-managed 80 acres offers some prime duck and deer hunting. The property is surrounded by a couple thousand acres of public hunting at your door step. There are over 1300 huntable acres in just the Cape Bend State Wildlife Area. -Great opportunity for Hunting Club with several members, or new owner to hunt half and lease out the other half if they wish to do so. -There are 3 waterfowl impoundments that can be independently or all 3 flooded with water control structures on each and properly maintained levees. Owners' usually drain at planting season, plant corn, millet and other seed producing annuals as governed by the WRP program. -The well is 24 inches with turbine pump and a John Deere 4045T Power Unit with 500-gallon fuel tank. -There are 2 six-man pits, one on the north 40 and another on the south 40 acres. -The bend in the Mississippi River tends to lead migratory waterfowl towards this area providing resting and feeding. -Rice fields to the north provide plenty of resting and feeding area for waterfowl South 40 is surveyed, the north 40 acres is not; however, Shawnee National Forest and Illinois -Department of Natural Resources surround this property and their borders are defined. -This property is enrolled in the Wetlands Reserve Program (WRP). Program offers landowners the opportunity to protect, restore and enhance wetlands on their property. The program offers landowners an opportunity to establish long-term conservation and wildlife practices and protection. -There were approximately 8,000 trees planted 18 years ago with mixed species of oaks, walnut, and bald cypress. -There are 2 easements into this property. The main one is off of Route 3 at the Cape Bend State Fish & Wildlife entrance which leads directly to the property through a locked gate and a newly constructed private bridge. -The property is about 1.5 miles east of the Mississippi River, 3 miles east of Cape Girardeau and 15 minutes from Interstate 55. And south of Union County Refuge. -Property has established ATV trails, 2 deer food plots and the large deer box stand stays with property. -Several 170-inch plus bucks have been harvested from property.