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Access to public vs private land for hunting? Beginning of the end?
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<blockquote data-quote="Buck Buster" data-source="post: 1560658" data-attributes="member: 99718"><p>I think your right about more people hunting private property without question, but there are many reasons a lot of them you mentioned . Now things are probably much the same in many states, but situations may vary some also I am in PA and many feel the the wildlife commission has left the deer heard deplete so low that there are to few on public land to even bother hunting anymore and the license sales show a steady decline and very few new hunters are coming on with nothing left to hunt ! I have to agree that the population of deer on many public lands should be called a non-huntable population it is so low, I have walked long distances on some of the public lands when there is snow cover looking for new and better places to hunt deer and maybe see a deer track or two sometimes none, but many coyote tracks ! This has led hunters to lease ground and set their own rules for the deer management that is used on them and their are others that knock on doors to get access to private lands to hunt! And yes I believe that in the not so long of the future that if you don't belong to a hunting club or own your own land or have access to private land to hunt deer in PA your deer hunting is all but gone! There are some places that have a few more deer than others but the hunters will migrate to them and that area's deer population will become few also ! These things along with some of those you have mentioned are hurting our hunting traditions ! Right now in PA I don't think there are enough deer in many areas to begin to over browse an area ! But land loss is a big issue I think everywhere ! New roads and housing developments, and shopping malls, new factories and people buying up private land and in PA the natural gas companies have butchered many thousands of acres with gas well pads, and pipelines ! The more the human population expands the more of the items mentioned are going to be needed and the population is increasing faster each year ! Enjoy the the great outdoors and hunting while you have the chance ! Probably 15 to 20 years ago I went to one of the northern counties where I used to hunt rabbits with my family many years ago, it was always full of rabbits and using a dog only slowed you down ! I turned of the major highway and down a couple back roads and then realized that I had gone by the area that we used to hunt, so i turned around and went back, and I came to the same conclusion as I did going the other way, so I turned around again and this time went very slow looking for more details that would remind me as to where the spot was ! Finally I stopped and may have even gotten a few tears in my eyes, the brushy hillside that I once hunted rabbits with my father and two brothers was now grass, houses and driveways ! So the habitat is shrinking at an alarming rate for all wildlife !</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Buck Buster, post: 1560658, member: 99718"] I think your right about more people hunting private property without question, but there are many reasons a lot of them you mentioned . Now things are probably much the same in many states, but situations may vary some also I am in PA and many feel the the wildlife commission has left the deer heard deplete so low that there are to few on public land to even bother hunting anymore and the license sales show a steady decline and very few new hunters are coming on with nothing left to hunt ! I have to agree that the population of deer on many public lands should be called a non-huntable population it is so low, I have walked long distances on some of the public lands when there is snow cover looking for new and better places to hunt deer and maybe see a deer track or two sometimes none, but many coyote tracks ! This has led hunters to lease ground and set their own rules for the deer management that is used on them and their are others that knock on doors to get access to private lands to hunt! And yes I believe that in the not so long of the future that if you don't belong to a hunting club or own your own land or have access to private land to hunt deer in PA your deer hunting is all but gone! There are some places that have a few more deer than others but the hunters will migrate to them and that area's deer population will become few also ! These things along with some of those you have mentioned are hurting our hunting traditions ! Right now in PA I don't think there are enough deer in many areas to begin to over browse an area ! But land loss is a big issue I think everywhere ! New roads and housing developments, and shopping malls, new factories and people buying up private land and in PA the natural gas companies have butchered many thousands of acres with gas well pads, and pipelines ! The more the human population expands the more of the items mentioned are going to be needed and the population is increasing faster each year ! Enjoy the the great outdoors and hunting while you have the chance ! Probably 15 to 20 years ago I went to one of the northern counties where I used to hunt rabbits with my family many years ago, it was always full of rabbits and using a dog only slowed you down ! I turned of the major highway and down a couple back roads and then realized that I had gone by the area that we used to hunt, so i turned around and went back, and I came to the same conclusion as I did going the other way, so I turned around again and this time went very slow looking for more details that would remind me as to where the spot was ! Finally I stopped and may have even gotten a few tears in my eyes, the brushy hillside that I once hunted rabbits with my father and two brothers was now grass, houses and driveways ! So the habitat is shrinking at an alarming rate for all wildlife ! [/QUOTE]
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