La.Tomkat,I know what you are saying, I to grew up inLa. prior to the lumber companies leasing there land tohunting club's. That is why it was known as Hunter's Paradise. The problem is not with the lumber companies, but with the state of La. I live in Kansas now and they had the same problem when I moved here back in the early 90's mostall the land was privatly owned.Kansas decided that they were goingstartthere out of state hunting program and the land owners were going to make a killing onout of state hunter's. There wasn't going to bemuch land left for the regular tax payers to hunt on, so the state started a walk in hunting program and started leasing land from the the farmers with the money spent on hunting lic.'s. At first it sucked but after about three years the quality of the land leased got better and it has continue to get much better now. Between public hunting landand walk in land you now have a pretty nice hunting for the regular guy with outhaving to belong to a hunting club or lease. You might check with the Wild life Dept. and see if something like what Kansas did might workthere too.You might go to the the Kansas Wild Life Dept. web site and check outthe walk in hunt program.I know what you are going through. Good Luck