Personally I've had it up to my neck with outfitters in Northern Minnesota bear hunting! Not all but most of the outfitters up there think they own the land, this is state land were all on. They've been trying to run us out where we bear hunt but there finding out it isn't so easy! We've been bear hunting this particular spot for 30+ years, there wasn't an outfitter anywhere when we first started. I've had some good chats with the local CO up there about these guides trying to run everyone out. We both agreed there's to many guides up there. The guide license in Minnesota runs right around 80.00 bucks, the CO and I would like to see them raise the Minnesota Bear Guide license considerably to get rid of the "want to be" guides then It wouldn't be such a problem with less guides. We do need bear guides where we hunt, some of these people don't have the time to do this stuff or just don't want to put the work that goes into it. We just need less of them and life would be allot better for us all up there! What I said by no means represents all outfitters, just some of the onces I've dealt with. I thought I better clarify that!