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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Brian Renville" data-source="post: 248980" data-attributes="member: 256"><p>I think you're exactly right, this bill to me looks like a waste of time between how it is now and a system like over here in MT. Landowners love that system. The biggest change with that is time to get out the checkbooks boys. The money paid to landowners is going to come from somewhere and if they don't want to burden what nonresident hunters bring to the state $$$ things might get pricey. A few guys said on another thread that PLOTS is the same, it's not. There generally isn't many landowners reguirement in MT and as long as people sign in when they hunt they get paid. Up to $15k a year I believe while still doing what they want with their land. Considering the tiny amout of public land ND has that's going to mean a big price tag for access. Nonresident will go up for sure but I wonder if, other than the badlands, it's worth it for a nonresident to pay that kind of money to shoot a deer when they can have the same hunt for maybe the same price in MT or WY? Generally I think we have a generational dispute more than anything these days. The farmers and landowners now feel differently about how they control things as their fathers and grandfathers did while hunters have become far more sport than necessity. Both sides see that and it irritates them both. Chicken or the egg debate maybe.</p></blockquote><p></p>