Why do people hunt public land???? Well I can't possibly list all the reasons without overloading the server. Take NY, just the Adirondack park alone is 4000 square miles, that's 2/3rds the size of South Carolina. It's bigger thanYellowstone andYosemite combined. That doesn't even take into consideration the Catskills, and all the land in the Southern Tier and Western NY that's public land. Why do we hunt it, because there are a lot of critters there. Everyone here hunts. Well at least enough do that most private land is hunted by the landowners, relatives, business friends etc. It's there to hunt, it's free and some of it is might rough country. WE don't have food plots, feeders aren't allowed and we call it HUNTING. All this doesn't even take into consideration all the 100-1000 acre tracts scattered all over the state. Oh I forgot, there are also county and town smaller public land acreages around. I have several within a half hour drive of the house. That's why we go there. You think those numbers are staggering, talk to someone from Alaska. Just why do you think they hunt public land.