YOU ARE ALREADY FREE TO DO WHAT YOU WANT ON YOUR OWN PROPERTY/HUNTING LEASE.
OTHER PEOPLE ARE FREE TO DO WHAT THEY WANT ON THEIR PROPERTY.
You’re on a completely different page than what I’m talking about……Think about the use of fire. At one time it probably wasn’t widely used a management tool but as landowners became more informed on the practices then it has become the norm now…..There are alternative practices to some of the ways we manage land…..What I’m talking about is beginning to explore using these options more in hopes that maybe they become the norm and help produce more wildlife habitat out of land that currently is not very productive or only producing a fraction of its potential…..Again, there’s nothing being mandated or imposed on landowners……It’s simply a change in ideology and folks are free to make their own choices…..Same concept with soil health and the no-till movement….It’s a change in ideology/management practices
I am all for landowners and lessees doing everything possible to maximize the quality of the land for deer and wildlife habitat. I think everyone is. I certainly am and use fire, timber thinning, liming, planting, all sorts of things. Countless landowners and lessees have been doing that for decades now. Each year more and more people do that. Each year more and more people subscribe to QDM. Each year more and more hunters up their buck standards.
The problem is that in your posts in all these several threads you have been clearly calling out and asking for some kind of weird government intervention to restrict and limit other people's hunting and land use - in order to benefit yourself. Your above post seems to be backtracking on that which is good.
