While a lot of the talk revolves around previous "closed" ground being opened to limited public access, you don't see much talk about previously open ground that now has converted to CWMU units. There are nearly 125 units in Utah covering over 2,000,000 acres of ground. It would probably take a lot of research to find out the ratio, but I suspect it's tilted pretty heavily towards loss of open ground. If you are a landowner who was selling 100 trespass permits for, say, $50.00 and found out you could offer 2 public permits and sell the other 8 permits for $5000.00, what would you do? Less hassle, more money. The American way. I don't blame a landowner for doing something I would do under the same circumstances, but as a general, run of the mill hunter I don't like the system. Not sure how you could tweak it, but I know the landowners love the system and you'd be hard put to get them to change at this point.
