check out fishingbuddy.com. You should find some interesting reading on the forums. This is a troubled issue and one that won' t be resolved anytime soon. The guides are leasing up land to make a profit, " some" farmers are jumping in on it to make money, the State... County...City are looking for their share with the non-residents shelling out the cash.

The resident hunters are feeling the pinch. Land is harder to access without digging out the wallet. They feel the Guides, farmers. landowners, County and State is out of control with their greed and has forgotten about them. The residents pay state, county and city taxes year round and want quality hunting for themselves and future generations.

Farmers are seeing land values and cash rent going up due to non-residents buying up land for hunting. They are now feeling the pinch especially in in the Southern part of the start in pheasant country.


Everyone is pointing fingers on who is to blame and it is getting ugly.
I' ve just touched on the subject but it is not so simple as some believe and not all of us North Dakotans are greedy and we do go out of our way to help a fellow hunter out....resident or non-resident... no cash involved!!

Tim