[skeeter@ccia.com]

Looking for land to hunt in eastern Pa for bear season I found if you didn't belong to a hunt club, free land was small. But still available. We found one such free place just outside a hunt club only to find the members of it all parked their vehicles outside the gates and down the road to block the parking area where open land was on the other side of their fence. Low and behold, as the light came on in the morning, our side of the fence was covered with the club members in such numbers, we only hunted there one day. Is this the kind of poeple that join these places?..I want no part of them in that case.
We are better off getting our Game Commission to buy more land and open it to the public before we go the way of the west where you have to spend 65 thousand dollars to lease a farm.
I do have access to 6 large farms from a family that does not believe in selling for housing but one of the best slopes (can watch for hogs from the hilltop) the bottom land joins another farm. Guess where this farmer decided to sell a portion of his land for houses?..Even though it isn't on the land I hunt, it now kills oportunity to hunt that whole portion of the open farm.
I still say even though some might have to be sold just to pay taxes etc, most of it boils down to greed..greed..the almighty $$..grandpappys and pappys worked the land but jr now just wants to sell it off and buy one of those mine is bigger houses for himself..Just last night on the way home I took a backroad past a horse riding stable to check on some dates only to find it closed and (I knew the pappy passed) it now is subdivided into 4 to 40 acre lots..such is America...Land of the free..Land..remember they don't make any more of that either..
so they buy acres of land, build a large building, close it in a few years..put for sale on it..then someone buys the land next to that and does the same thing..guess it is cheaper to buy woods, strip it, build on it than to buy what is already there? Where is the planning commission?