A great many of those woodlots have been sold off in the last 15-20 years and have had houses built in them, or been clear cut and bulldozed to plant more corn to take advantage of the ethanol craze. It's all flat as a pancake wide open farm ground up here with woodlots being few and far between. Not much better here in Ohio anymore either, at least not up in my part of the state. At the very least require them to purchase an annual license that requires they meet certain guidelines and pay a per-hunter tax on their services that goes to supporting wildlife management. The bad thing is that the ODNR continues to refuse to do anything to regulate or oversee these businesses that are profiteering off our wildlife and the tax dollars that go to supporting it. Public hunting land in my part of the state is all but non-existent so that really isn't an option unless i want to drive 3+ hours each way.ĭown in the southern half of the state permission to hunt private land is getting harder to come by due to the number of so-called "guides" and "outfitters" that are leasing it all up. Those that remain are either off limits (don't allow hunting or they hunt it themselves) or the land owner lets everybody and their brother hunt it. Of course you have to consider your enjoyment of preparing and being outdoors against the cost, I'll do it as long as I can afford and physically able to do it.Not much better here in Ohio anymore either, at least not up in my part of the state. If you add up the cost to hunt - club fees, guns, clothes, stands, vehicles, processing and other expenses - it is getting to be pretty expensive to hunt deer here. I belong to a hunting club with about 25 members and we lease land from timber companies and private land owners, everyone wants to cash in on the hunting industry. Here in Arkansas it is also getting hard to find public land to hunt on, and when you do its pretty crowded.
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