www.4rmr.es
Four Rivers Mountain Range is a Voluntary Action Group comprised of inhabitants and landowners who are all nonprofit conservationists. They have joined together to preserve the territory and its natural values to maintain and promote its contribution to the world's biodiversity, fostering knowledge, appreciation and respect of the habitat and the inhabitants who made it possible. Special attention has been given to the protection of the Madrona Ibex.
The area already has received national and international recognition in the nature preservation arena as part of the European Red Natura 2000, Bird´s Special Protection Area (ZEPA), Place of Interest for the CEE(LIC) and Special Protection Area for some endangered especies Iberian Imperial Eagle, Fasciata Eagle, Black Vulture, Black Stork, Bats and Iberian Lynx. Recently the area was recognized as an important part of the Alcudia and Sierra Madrona Natural Park.
www.madronalu.com
Within 4RMR are landowners who consider hunting as one of the best means to preserve nature while maintaining a healthy renewable economy for land inhabitants. They have created the working group Madrona Landowners United, which will have the pleasure of introducing you to the Unexplored Spain described by Chapman and Buck.
As is written in the famous book’s Introduction, “The Spain that we love and of which we write is not the Spain of tourist or globe-trotter.” We at MLU represent a centuries-old heritage of living off the land.
Los Claros (www.losclaros.net) and Valmayor (www.valmayor.eu) are the tip of the iceberg. Due to having close contact with those in the field, including 4RMR’s local members, you will have the opportunity to visit unexplored areas of Spain—both in land and history.
Members’ land holdings span 40,000-plus acres, accounting for the largest private hunting area in Spain.
What Makes MadronaLU Different
It is easy to book a hunt in Spain but if you want more than just a hunt, Madrona Landowners United offers the ultimate adventure. Why? Because you hunt with the landowners themselves, who live amongst the wild game and whose families have managed the land for generations. Many Spanish big-game hunts are booked on national parkland where the outfitter pays a fee to the government or the landowner to take you hunting. Madrona Landowners United is unique because the landowners serve as your personal guides as you tap into their knowledge of the game animals and terrain.
Madrona Landowners United offers multiple hunt packages but is known for letting you create your own. Packages can include hunting for mature, trophy-class Iberian red deer and mouflon sheep, a chance at a Madrona ibex, on the verge of being recognized as a new Spanish ibex sub-species (adding to the four that currently make up the Spanish Grand Slam), or a giant wild boa standing three feet at the shoulder.
Select from three hunting methods-or do them all. Enjoy spot-and-stalk trophy or management hunts with your bow or rifle as you navigate Mediterranean forests and move through meadows using oak trees and remnants of centuries-old walls and structures. Or climb into a stand overlooking the vast countryside, complete with a mountain view, in anticipation of big-game animals coming to you. Or take part in a centuriesold Monteria (driven hunt). Even if you have experienced a driven hunt, few have done so on sections of land spanning 1,300-plus acres with 300 dogs.
