g, as a landowner, if a guy or two were approach you sometime in say February, maybe when you're out feeding cows or something, and asks if he and maybe his kid were to come help you out with branding calves, fixing fence, weaning, hauling hay/grain, etc. a couple weekends a year, would you open to letting that person access your land?
I think this is the type of situation we need to push more in ND. Lot of values to be learned on all sides. Especially if kids get involved.
In the past I the couple times it has happened I have told them ot get back in touch. One did, one did not. The fella and his kid that did shot a doe in the youth doe season and their smiles/ excitment and conversation after were pretty cool.
I really wouldn;t require someone "help" but definately would appreciate the offer and if things worked out maybe the help(know anything about night duty calving cows??) . Honestly it would depend on when, what, who ect... We do have a number of people hunting and with family .......it just all depends. We have a couple areas we have put a pretty good bit of work into to build habitat and attract wildlife that the family likes to hunt and we sometimes bring others into that but honestly we kinda use that as our little piece of hunting heaven.
In our area there is still a fair bit of unposted land (get more each year) and I know for a fact areas that if people ask that are posted they can hunt (might not want to flash your DU membership sticker) . Some years we only post maybe half of what we could.
Other lands we have alot of times people just stopping in that are decent people end up hunting. I guess my point in the post is things have changed and when I travel somewhere hunting I don;t expect the same response as I got 30 years ago. But I still seem ot be able to find places to hunt thru friends and aquaintances that offer invitations and sometimes just by stopping in with a little courteousy and a visit.
Things have change and are perhaps not as easy, but I guess to me hunting is still worth the effort.