I can't speak for others but when you said private landowners I thought you meant ALL private landowners. As you know maineguide, you, farmers, and myself are not the only class of private landowners in Maine. A good chunk of northern Maine, as I'm sure you are well aware of, is privately owned and its not nescessarily by farmers. While timber companies may not care what day you or I hunt, they certainly do care where we hunt, especially when they have cutters around.

Maybe if you were a little clearer about what you are thinking, these little pissing contests wouldn't happen.