I think that legislation that would help a lot would be prohibiting leased ground from being entered into any government programs, i.e. the conservation reserve program. I also believe that the landowner should have to pay the same amount of taxes on leased ground as they do for regular production ground as they are earning an income off of it. In Illinois some efforts have been made as far as tax programs on leased ground, but nothing has been accomplished to my knowledge. Also, here is a wild idea, if outfitting brings in a lot of extra income for the DNR, why shouldn't this money be re-invested into public ground? Maybe we should start looking at state supported leases where the state pays landowners to allow hunting on their property. Something is going to have to happen my friends, at least it is here a highly marketed state like Illinois, or the game's gonna be up for we local hunters. We'll be watching Realtree Outdoors saying, "That used to be my treestand."