Thank You

To Sir, 

I saw the listing for this property just a stones throw away from Pine River.  When I was a younger man, I would make the drive from Park Rapids to Crosslake each fall, passing by this property I don’t know how many times.

I’ve been chasing after whitetail and waterfowl for the better part of my adult life, and while a suburban boy from the metro isn’t the likeliest of hunters, each fall I call the woods and the bog my home away from home.  

When we first visited your property, I was immediately in love with all of it.  Given the care you have taken with your stands, the trails, and your trail signs I have to imagine that you loved this place too.  

While I have passion for hunting, I want you to understand that for my family and I a place like this means so much more.  It is about finding the better parts of ourselves and being able to share it with those that we love the most.  

I could not help but notice the trail signs that you named after people.  While I will never know their stories, I believe that a part of them as well as a part of you, will always be here in this hallowed place that my son has named Buckwood.  

As ownership passes from one family to the next, know that my son, my Father-in-law, and I promise to be humble stewards of these grounds as we make new stories, share in new adventures, and create our own legends of the fall.

With all my Love,
Matthew Goodenough