[Canadasnowman]

Originally Posted by Outdoorfanatic

Once upon a time DUC would purchase the land and as such could and would grant permission to hunt. Now due to the cost of land DUC is leaning more to creating partnerships with current landowners for habitat development. Almost always these partnerships are a lease situation that maintains the ownership of the land with that of the landowner and not DUC. Benefit to the landowner is a tax break. After all the land that DUC is interested in is marginal farm land at best and of little value to the landowner other than that of a tax break. So permission to hunt that land is still required from the landowner, some are agreeable and some not. The permission issue is separate from that of DUC unless of course the DUC flat out owns the land. Same goes for the AFGA and other Conservation groups. That's why in another thread from another time I was making the point that it's important for those of us who donate funds to conservation to be aware that not all conservation is favourable to the hunter.

Well said indeed