Eric - As you stated earlier, access to ground is generally there. It's the quality of the ground wherein the disparity exists. With that said, and as I stated before, it only makes sense that the outfitter ties up as much ground as he possibly can. This often means that they find a way to prohibit access to public ground. Take away all of the individual hangups that people have and the obvious solution to these issues is a permit system and a law like that of Alberta that doesn't allow leasing of hunting rights. Quality goes way up and access is never again an issue.
**Maybe add section line access like ND has. No need to worry about whether or not a road is public or private, if it's on a section line it's public.
As I understand it her in Hill County the section line roads are public access. Which is good, in that it allows access to some public land that would otherwise be landlocked. But it is also bad in that even if that section line is surrounded by private on both sides and the end you can't stop anybody from driving it. So what ends up happening is road hunters with no permission to hunt the private land just cruise the section lines and as long as no one is looking shoot whatever pops up.
