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Message: <blockquote data-quote="deleted user" data-source="post: 392572" data-attributes="member: 1778">The focus of the article is that the public badlands are getting crowded, not that the deer population and tag availability are getting scarce. Though the two are connected.But as far as I see it hell yeah we have a habitat problem. If people got as worked up about that as they did about baiting i think the amount of deer would make up for it. I’m not anti-ag. Many in my family farm and ranch, my friends farm and ranch. They all do great things. The problem is that right now agriculture and conservation kind of locked in battle. In ND, the ag groups have a huge amount of pull, and guess what most of our representatives do or used to do. The groups that lobby them want every inch of ground in production. They want the public land given back to heirs of original owners and back in production. They want wetlands drained and trees ripped out. Where does that leave you and the wildlife? Don’t be so fast to say it’s no use or that’ll never happen. I know I come on here and oftentimes rant about conservation, but if outdoorsmen spoke up and utilized the groups out there that that work with the landowners and lawmakers and such to get programs in place, I believe we could right the ship. If nothing else, we need to fight to keep what we have.</blockquote>