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Message: <blockquote data-quote="KDM" data-source="post: 188691" data-attributes="member: 314"><p>No issues here PG.  Emotion is best left OUT of a discussion.  It can be touchy, immature, childish, and far fetched, but I don't bring it up to be so.  For the first time in my lifetime, there was a request of the legislature to consider making every acre of private land automatically posted, it tells me there are at least a growing number of people that think it's necessary.  I DON'T think its even close to being necessary and don't want a SD style of land usage.  It punishes everyone for the actions of a few and that's just WRONG.  I bring this up simply as food for thought.  Is that game animal worth hard feelings??  I see more and more shelter belts, sloughs, CRP, and other cover being removed for croplands.  Regardless of how you feel about these actions, it doesn't bode well for having MORE wildlife on the landscape meaning more hunters will be competing for what is left.  Competition usually results in price tags being applied and then the fattest wallets win and that is also WRONG.  Hunters and landowners are so interconnected that every issue between them affects every other issue and IMO, looking at the big picture is better than picking at the individual issues.  Thank GOD these encounters with bad landowners or hunters are the exception rather than the rule and I would like to ensure it stays that way so we as hunters or landowners can disregard those ignorant pitiful few that just want to cause conflicts as poor folks that must have a terrible life.  It's just that if you added the number of hunters and the number of landowners (80 acres or more) together, we would still probably be outnumbered by the urban masses that vote by what youtube, facebook, and the TV says rather than with their own minds and THAT is what has me concerned the most.  If we allow ourselves (hunters/landowners) to be an issue.......I'm afraid we will all lose.</p></blockquote><p></p>

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