Here we go....again, politics get in the way of deer hunting. Environmental WACK-KOS is what we get from the liberals.

Several of us (Wildcat included) tried to tell the LBL hunters this WAS GOING to happen.
We were written off as behaving stupidly.

Now let me tell you what else is going to happen.
LBL is going to become just another old-growth forest, much like other National Forest lands, i.e. like the Cherokee National Forest (at least in terms of trees). Perhaps I and most of you reading this will be done hunting by the time this happens, as it will be many decades before those open fields become mature forests ---- but that's where this is headed. Perhaps we can turn this around in the coming years, perhaps some legitimate conservation groups such as TWF and the NWTF can help, but for every 3 steps we take forward, going to be a challenge to not take 4 steps backward.

Parts of LBL will be set aside as "Wilderness Areas". (Yes, for those in the know, the definition of "Wilderness" will have to be changed to accomodate smaller acreages.) Hunting will not be allowed in these areas. Eventually, there will be no hunting at LBL, although that may be decades, the handwriting is on the wall. Step-by-step, it is happening. If you want to make it happen faster, just keep voting for those democrats.

It's been public property since 1964, 46 years.

There are dozens of groups that want to do that very thing, give it back to the owners. Most of them are after the PROFITS it will make, high dollar private hunting clubs for one.

The deer hunting will be better this year and next. After that it will go down hill for the next 3-5 years then level off. The deer numbers will also level off like they do in every old growth forest.