CRP will often have some shubbery in it. It jut happens because invasive woody species get going pretty fast and easy. Often the field was a real rough on and it might even have a section in the middle or edge that was never farmed and the brush really extends off of this. The program is a good one, if you can get your land in it and there are lots of farmers lined up for it as they can make just as much money off the CRP contract as they can planting it down. Again, this is real rough ground usually.

As far as hunting it, if it is illegal than there are going to be a lot of people in the pokey because most everyone I know who has some hunts it. I don't know because we don't have any ground in the program. Have some unfarmable/ungrazeable ground that should have been put in about 20 years ago but we just leave that be as rough ground.

As an aside, the grass on a CRP is harvestable under certain conditions for grazing or haying. There is an applicaiton to fill out during drought years or crop failure for some other reason. Some CRP ground is harvested 1/3 years...