Most of the land I lost was lost to development, housing developments and shopping centers and such. I have never lost land to a lease although I am not denying that you have a valid point, it just has not hit the area where I live and hunt except for field leases during Canada Goose season which do not affect me. You rally can't blame the landowners because with a lease they have a hammer to control what happens on the property and know who to go to if something happens and lessees are less likely to act stupid because they have something to lose. You can't really blame the lessees either because if you have been hunting for any length of time we have all seen the idiots that unfortunately are in our ranks. If a group of like minded people want to lease an area so they don't have to deal with the drama, I have a hard time blaming them. It used to be doing some work for the farmers would buy you some good will. Then farming became more raise hay and grain and sell grain than growing hay and grain to feed the farmer's cattle and maybe sell a little surplus and it is now all about the money and you can't blame the farmer for getting as much as they can out of their land. It has become a lot more expensive to be a farmer than it was when I was young.