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<blockquote data-quote="pluckem" data-source="post: 136931" data-attributes="member: 843">I wouldn't say this is only a problem with Lonetree. This can be seen on all large tracts of public across the state. Habitat has been reduced across the state, access to private gets more limited every season, access to public gets easier and easier as technology advances (phone apps, GPS maps, Google Earth, internet forums), and commercialization of the sport (magazine articles, land leases, and property acquisitions solely with deer management and hunting in mind).North Dakota was lagging most states with all this but we are catching up and I don't see this changing. I haven't been up there this year, however I don't think food plots next to the property line would do much. Lone tree has food plots all over and the deer still will hit them when they want. Problem is they don't need them in this warm weather and the food plots get hit so hard by hunters the deer figure it out, just like they figure out where the private land is, and feed at night. I just don't see the access being limited anytime soon, so its like all other types of public ground deer hunting. Its not easy, it takes a lot of work and time to be successful, and you usually have to use different tactics.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="pluckem, post: 136931, member: 843"] I wouldn't say this is only a problem with Lonetree. This can be seen on all large tracts of public across the state. Habitat has been reduced across the state, access to private gets more limited every season, access to public gets easier and easier as technology advances (phone apps, GPS maps, Google Earth, internet forums), and commercialization of the sport (magazine articles, land leases, and property acquisitions solely with deer management and hunting in mind). North Dakota was lagging most states with all this but we are catching up and I don't see this changing. I haven't been up there this year, however I don't think food plots next to the property line would do much. Lone tree has food plots all over and the deer still will hit them when they want. Problem is they don't need them in this warm weather and the food plots get hit so hard by hunters the deer figure it out, just like they figure out where the private land is, and feed at night. I just don't see the access being limited anytime soon, so its like all other types of public ground deer hunting. Its not easy, it takes a lot of work and time to be successful, and you usually have to use different tactics. [/QUOTE]

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