I saw a grazing lease that encompasses almost 8 full sections of land. For the people who don't know.. That is 5120 acres, or a block of land 2 miles wide by 4 miles long. These lease says that by the regulations of the minister they only allow 6 people on the lease to hunt per day. That means each person is alloted 1.3 square miles each. When in most cases these hunters will be in small groups hunting very small sections of that land, it could easily There are several 1/4 sections that allow 3-4 per day. Which is roughly only 3% of the size of lease.
Some of the rules that the lease owners try get away with cause some of the issues and discontent among hunters.
On the flip side,
I also see it for the lease owners it is sucks that they have to make rules for the 10% idiot demographic, people who cut fences, leave gates open, have little or no respect for land or livestock. It is really what makes it difficult for the other 90% of us who are totally respectful and leave it as or better than we found it.
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