Recent content by BenA

Why did they choose to sell to a non-resident over a resident? Why did the 25 locals not choose to go in together in a LLC and buy it? Why didn't the locals feel sorry for the 25 displaced hunters and let them hunt on the remaining acreage?

The money spent for a resident landowner to contribute to the state's management of its wildlife resources vs a nonresident landowner. Those other monies that you're talking of do not contribute to the agency tasked with the management of that state's wildlife management.

No, but I contribute almost 10x's the money spent to that state's management of the wildlife resources than the resident does. And, 100% more than the landowner who doesn't buy a license. The state gets almost 100% of its money to manage wildlife from license sales. If a resident landowner...

That kind of nonresident landowner is not displacing the same apples to apples resident landowner from hunting though.

They were podunk at one time. But, because of non-residents, have a better economy now. I'm not saying those places are better or that I want everywhere to turn into that. Heck no. I'm just saying that non-resident, hunting land, landowners have not brought down local economies. You can't tell...

But, they would have been a detriment to hunting and wildlife. An example of a non-resident landowner being more beneficial to the wildlife resources than residents.

Just an example of non-resident contribution to local economies. If we're talking about just deer hunting, I kept my farm from being subdivided into local residential lots.

But ask the sales tax collectors in Destin, Gatlinburg, Eureka Springs, Branson, etc, etc.

Local economies benefit greatly with sales dollars and taxes generated by non-residents.

Not an ordinary circumstance though. And, I don't think you'd wish you had 25 more hunters next to you though. Support for the wildlife resources is different than support for the local and state economy.

How many resident landowners that own property for hunting are not displacing locals from hunting there? Are they just letting locals have free hunting use of the land so they have a place they can go hunting whenever they want? I bet residents are more restricted by other residents than...

Another time in Louisiana, when I was in college, some of us wildlife students were allowed to hunt on LSU property near a research station. I was hunting in a small tract surrounded by private land I had secured access to come through. One morning, two men came walking down an logging road...

In Louisiana, there was a guy notorious for trespassing and poaching big bucks at night. A local thay watched our place, said he saw the guy in his truck turning off into an overgrown field and coming in through a back way to our lease. I decided to miss a hunt one evening to wait at our camp...

I wonder why land shares haven't caught on in areas like it has down here. Here it's more of residents displacing residents for deer hunting land.

That's what happened here. Where i live now used to be pastures, woods, and swamp. People die who have kids. The kids sell the property. A developer turns it into a subdivision or strip mall. Rinse, repeat enough times, and this rural area is now subdivisions and strip malls going on and on and...