Fixing fences after hunting season is a major problem. Even hunters we know who normally you would assume would take care of property often leave behind a bit of damage. Picking up trash, having to deal with all the 4 wheeler damage in stream beds and areas where they never should go....and then tresspassrs and all they bring...often times the guys who lease a piece of ground are the best guard aginst tresspassers.
I totaly agree after seeing tresspassing wholesale where we hunted. It is a mess, and I would not want to be a landowner, you would spend all the time protecting your land, and not get to do any hunting. The problem that Ruger1 was talking about is that the public areas are so overrun, and hunter density is so high, that the consideration of leasing is now becoming a safety issue. It is just as hard to find a good lease anymore as it is to find public ground availability. The public ground is free, but the leased ground is determined by free market value.
That's why we were fighting for longer seasons, and for wore of the public land closed to firearms in Kansas to be opened back up to Firearms big game hunting. And to have a protocol and criteria in place to check on if land is actually being closed for true safety reasons, convienence, or to make a nice off limits area for state fellows to hunt only. That has occured in the past and is occurring at 3 lakes in Kansas now. It was all in the 5 year public land plans.