RE: Are we really better off as hunters today?
We always have a tendency to see the negative. As we get older, things change and we often donn't like that change. It's totally normal to yearn for the "good old days". There may be less hunters today but that's more of a societal problem than a problem with hunting itself.
My point was: We have much, much more habitat now that can never be developed than we did say 40 years ago. That alone makes us better off. If you look at the statistics, there isn't LESS public land now than there was yesteryear, but there is more people and more people wanting multiple use policies for that public land.