International Paper is planning on selling over a million acres of timberlands east of the Mississippi in the next couple of years. It may be the end of your hunting lease. The experience I have had (I do timber work for different investors) is that land investors will buy multi thousand acre blocks, break them up and/or cut the timber and resell the land for a profit. The hunting leases are usually one of the first things to go. It seems the trend is that the timber companies are getting out of the land ownership business.