Flychucker, Thanks for your reply. Hunting appears to be steadily and quickly heading that way here, too.

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In my experience, either you are denied permission to hunt a place...or...you have to join a club or lease land, or pay a landowner a fee to hunt. Gaining permission to hunt a place without paying is getting much rarer. Simply asking and gaining permission is getting to be a thing of the past.

I noticed this trend coming when the commercialization of hunting began; the celebrities, tv shows, advertising hunting equipment, etc.

I know it causes some folks to go into knee-jerk spasms of anger when money is mentioned in a seemingly derogatory manner, but: Privately owned and managed, pay-to-hunt packages will ultimately become the sole way to hunt...and will spell the ultimate downfall of Traditional American hunting. Only a select group of people will be able to enjoy hunting in decades to come. Hunting on pay-to-go corporations will require a payed Guide, the employ of private Biologist/Game Warden staff, and the cost will be prohibitive to average salaried folks.

The predictable but hum-drum response of, 'we have WMA's for the general public to hunt' doesn't cut the mustard. Neither will predictable responses of, 'well, join Obama and the Socialists if you don't like Free Enterprise.' Neither does the usual response of, 'save up your money for these hunting trips.' Many people are barely drudging by, financially, month-to-month, and cannot save up an extra penny. WMA's will become inundated with hordes of hunters unable to join the exclusive hunting society due to the high fees. They will eventually fail, too. (drastically less license fees)

Maybe the people who have 'high-fenced' hunting areas already established...are light years ahead on the coming trend...and are on to something even more profitable in the future ?

Hey, I'm not griping nor am I veiling a criticism...I'm purely speculating on the future. If high-fenced areas and pay-as-you-go hunting is inevitable and for the good---it's inevitable.

I'm only wondering how the average and below average salaried hunters' desires to enjoy hunting will be handled with only cost prohibitive places available ?