How about a nice bottle of Hooch to leave for the owner?
That’s a tough one. How to thank/show-appreciation to a rancher or landowner for hunting-access/accommodations that quite frankly have a market value in the hundreds of dollars. And greatly increase your chances for future invites to come back.
A lot depends on how far away you live from him/her.
A MAJOR problem for ranchers nowadays is they can’t find anybody willing to work! No way no how. A lot of this work is sporadic, it is for a day or few, on occasion, but when needed, it is NEEDED.
If you live close enough (i.e. a couple hundred miles) for just a day trip and are willing to get there early enough (with some effort e.g. as if you’re hunting), one thing you could do is pitch in for a day of acequia (ditch) cleaning (in early spring, in the weeks before releasing water into the acequia), and/or show up early bright eyed and bushy tailed to “walk the water “ when they do release the water into the ditch, where you pace the leading edge of the mini-“flash flood” coming down the ditch and every few feet scoop a pitchfork load of water soaked twigs/branches/debris up on the bank ... in my acequia you do this for 4 miles!
Acequia has been there for 170 years so you can imagine the thick growth of cottonwoods and brush along it. Do this and you will find out how tough you are. Do this and it will be appreciated!
