That's something I actually didn't know. And obviously didn't do enough research.
He uses the term government forests ?
That would probably be wild then. Probably.
There are tons of high fence places in Czech. Most are probably private, but I would not say all are private.
Government Forest Areas to use the German term Forest Revier, are similar across most of Central Europe.
Revier is best described as a piece of property managed for hunting. Vice a national park (though some of these in Europe are hunted). The state forest revier near my house is about 2000 acres of mixed pine, oak, birch, and chestnut, and feral apples. The big blocks of Czech forest are more than likely not fenced, though there are some huge areas 1000-8000 acres of high fenced forest, where they have managed for trophy quality of mouflon and fallow deer.
I hunted in a Forestry Revier called Jindřichův Hradec in May for Roe bucks.
Saw a lot of fallow, a few red deer and zero sika. Also saw zero wild boar or foxes.
Grok says the following:
Lesy České republiky (LČR) is the state forest enterprise that manages most Czech state forests (~1.17 million ha). Hunting is a major part of that work: LČR is the holder of hunting rights on hundreds of
honitby (hunting grounds) covering close to a million hectares.
Most of those grounds are
open (volné honitby). A smaller, distinctive set are
obory — fully enclosed game preserves. Those are the high-fenced ones.
How LČR hunting grounds work
Czech hunting law organizes the countryside into recognized hunting grounds (minimum 500 ha for an ordinary open ground). LČR typically holds the rights on state forest land and either:
- leases the ground to a hunting club or company (the majority of cases), or
- manages it itself (režijní honitba).
Around 2023 LČR had roughly 968–971 grounds on ~976,000 ha, with about 122 in-house and the rest leased. The enterprise has been shifting more grounds into its own management (target around 25% of area) so it can cut game numbers and reduce browsing damage to young forests.
Nationwide, hunting covers most of the country (~6.89 million ha). Of that, only about 49,000 ha are game preserves and ~91,000 ha pheasantries; the rest is open hunting.
Are any high-fenced?
Yes — the obory. An
obora is a legally recognized enclosed hunting ground, fenced high enough to hold red deer, fallow deer, mouflon, sika, and wild boar. Public access can be restricted; hunting is more intensive and trophy-oriented.
LČR publicly lists and markets several of these. Examples include:
- Hluboká nad Vltavou: Poněšice (~1,643 ha; red deer, wild boar, roe) and Stará Obora (~1,511 ha; fallow, mouflon, wild boar), plus an open ground “Vltava.” These sit in Natura 2000 areas.
- Konopiště: enclosed parks such as Vlková (~450 ha; mouflon, fallow, Dybowski sika) plus large pheasantries and open forest grounds.
- Obora Žleby (Nasavrky) — known for white red deer.
- Obora Vřísek (Česká Lípa), Sedlice (Vodňany), Hájek (Horní Blatná), Kopidlo (Hořice), Kralice (Náměšť), and others listed on LČR’s “Obory a myslivecké objekty” page.
- Židlochovice forest enterprise and Roštejnská obora (Telč area) also keep game in enclosed parks.
These fences are the tall, continuous game fences (typically well over 2 m), not the short
oplocenky used to protect seedlings.
Open LČR honitby are not high-fenced as a whole. Game moves freely. What you will see are many small, temporary or semi-permanent wire exclosures around young plantations (often 1.6–2.2 m mesh) to stop browsing. Those protect trees; they do not enclose the hunting ground.
Practical picture
- Want a classic Central European forest hunt with free-ranging roe, red deer, and wild boar → leased or in-house open LČR grounds.
- Want higher density, more predictable trophies, mouflon/fallow/sika in a controlled park → LČR obory.
LČR also publishes commercial-hunt pages and price lists for several of these units. Separate from LČR are Military Forests and Estates (VLS) and the historic Lány Game Preserve (a large enclosed park tied to the presidential estate, not a standard LČR district).
Maps of honitby boundaries are available via the National Forestry Institute (NLI / ÚHÚL) geoportal and related hunting-map tools. For a specific ground, the LČR website has a hunt-search section and local forest-district pages.
