Just curious. Are these stands all in the easily accessable areas? Within amile of a road? Sounds like most of what you described were field edges. If you pack in about a mile or two do you still have that problem? I've never hunted public land (except for turkey last year) and I was planning on doing some next year after I've scouted out an area. My plan was to hike in for two miles on National Forest and set up camp and hunt the area from my base camp. Didn't know if I'd run into a lot of people that way but kind of doubt it.