for the access fee's. It's become a side business for many of them. I don't feel one bit sorry for landowners that won't allow hunters to come in and hunt. I get some (few) hunters are morons and do dumb stuff but its a price to pay. Giving out hand outs is what the ranching industry specializes in.
We've hunted a until here in Idaho for several years that has a lot of private property. Zero landowners will give you permission to hunt. The only people able to hunt are ranch hands and buddies with a lot of money. They treat it as there own hunting preserve. Yet they are the first ones to cry bloody murder when elk frequent the property. My solution is to tell the landowner you have two choices let the public hunt in some method or we will build a fence around the field and that they maintain. They wouldn't want the fence because the dirty secret is they like the animals there. Just a money grab much like the the Defenders of Wildlife and CBD suing the Feds constantly. THEY GET PAID!