I think it depends on where you hunt and what your terrain/county/state looks like. From what I invision, I would think places like Ohio, Okla, Wisconsin, Texas, etc should remain 'natural' and let the deer roam where they want to find their food needs. However, here in NJ we are allowed to bait and I think we need to. Places I hunt are almost in people's backyards and part of my position with some towns is to assist in lowering their deer population thru archery and shotgunning. Hard to coax these deer into the woods to shoot them if you don't consistently provide bait to attract the deer from people's azaleas! People I hunt with all use feeders or bring in their own corn to throw down. Yes, it changes the deer's natural patterns, but otherwise we could not take the deer because we'd be illegally hunting too close to a building or playground, etc.

It's almost a reason I thought about writing a book on hunting in suburbia and how to successfully hunt in close proximity to neighborhoods and how to perfrom precise drives and bumps. Still might venture to write what I have learned over the last 15 years in hunting in an over-developed state and how to make it pay off!