Outfitting for whitetail deer has definitely had a negative impact in Kansas. Where there used to be plenty of land to go around, now it is dismal. I' ve lost out on thousands of acres to hunt due to land locked up by outfitters. The private section of ground my buddies and I do have a last foot hold on is surrounded by outfitters. Now these outfitters don' t give a hang about shooting does or improving or even maintaining the health of the herd. They are like gold diggers raping the countryside and when the resource is decimated, they will move on to someplace else with no regard to what they left behind, which is a herd that sucks and is out of balance. They have bowhunters hunting ground every day in November and gun hunters every day for two weeks in December basically killing every single buck from 3.5 and up and lately even some younger than that just because they aren' t seeing the bucks like they used to and no one who pays 3K is going deerless. It' s horrible. It' s all about the outfitters making money and that' s it. You can' t argue with me about the plight of the struggling farmer whose crops are being destroyed by deer and the money they make off hunting feeds them through the winter...what a friggin' joke! I know. I see it. These farmers are doing just fine and are outrageously wealthy but it' s simply a matter of the value of the land as pasture ground or hunting ground. It' s the golden rule...the one with the gold makes the rules and the conglomeration of outfitters has much more economic resources than most average Joe hunters with kids at home and a mortgage to pay. Most farmers despise deer anyway and figure they might as well make some extra cash for a couple extra 4x4 quads to play with or perhaps another SUV...certainly not for food, crop damage compensation, or any other bogus reason. It' s ruining hunting for sure where I' m at and it makes me sick. Now I' m not talking about elk, bear, moose, caribou...etc...outfitters, I don' t know about them so I can' t comment. I' m speaking to whitetail deer outfitters of which I know well..what a scam! [:' (][:@][:' (][:@][:' (][:@][:' (][:@]