Not only are we miles apart, we come from different worlds in the same country. Less of your state is owned by the federals than many western states, but they do own about 36% of your state. In Louisiana they only own about 4 1/2%! Yet the motto printed the most on our license plates is "Sportsman's Paradise". Wild food gathering, hunting, fishing, and trapping are an important element of our heritage. Just watch the movie Waterboy to see how much Holly Wood makes fun of what we will eat!

We can do without the Feds because the people of Louisiana through OUR elected officials have built a nice range of state lands into our WMAs. Our state hunting and fishing licenses help support them. Some land has been purchased and some donated by private individuals and corporations. Go to wlf.louisiana.gov and look at the map of Louisiana in green with the WMAs in red. One can leave the French Quarter of New Orleans and drive by Joyce WMA in about 30 minutes!

Much of privately owned rural LA is available to hunt. My family and friends hunted swamp rabbits for free on an old orange farm down the Mississippi for a decade with the permission of the old lady who owned it. We just fixed little things around her house and visited her. Some still hunt it as a lease from her descendents. Groups of hunters form life long friends by joining hunting clubs that make large sections of land leases affordable. And leases allow private ownership to benignly neglect their unimproved land by paying the property tax and putting a little spending money in their pockets. Landowners win, wildlife wins, and sportsmen win. And the anti hunters of the world can kiss our collective arses!

Oh by the way, the whale species hunted by the Japanese on Whale Wars are not endangered. They are either at capacity, or there numbers are increasing, despite the hunting. You are a person who advocates harvesting wildlife for human consumption, sport, and becoming part of nature. But they have you convinced whales are endangered! How hard to convince a young mother and children in Central Park that a shot that dropped a deer with out a step is not a thing of beauty but a great evil!?

I think Colorado ownership and Colorado citizen ownership will better guarantee your future hunting rights. I would be happy to purchase a Colorado out of state hunting license to help maintain y'alls WMA system!