Have been involved with Hunter Safety in Wis. since 1968. The changes that I have seen are: an urban rather than a rural population shift, more single parent families, more weekend sports programs, computers, lack of places to hunt and I could go on and on. I was born and raised in a rural county, we could basically hunt where ever, with a population of less than 6000 then, everyone knew each other. Land was divided in to 40s and 80s in the 60s and sold to others. Very little public land in the county even back then, now it is mostly all posted. I don't object to a land owner controlling thier own land. The state has failed to stay abreast of changing times and provide hunter opurtunities for hunting. Have done a better job in the northern part of the state, but of course the population is in a strip accross the bottom and up the east side. Lot of problems to overcome, but some of our State hunting organizations are trying. Hopefully we will succeed or at least make progress.
