Insisting on hunting private land and relying on the generosity of others because you do not personally own any hunting property will, in today's world, always be a crap shoot. Appreciate and enjoy what you have today, because tomorrow, odds are it may be gone. Over the half century I've been hunting, I've had the privilege to hunt some beautiful areas that did not belong to me. Very few of those opportunities lasted for more than a few years for the exact reasons you stated. Comes with the territory. I've found that by endearing the landowner to you, the odds the privilege will continue goes up, but does not guarantee it. For the privilege of hunting wild turkeys on private land, I do odds jobs and help out with farm work on the off season for the landowners. After 30 years of doing this, the children of one of the original landowners, still saves me a week during the season, even tho their dad has been gone for a decade. Taking their grandson along a few years back to bag his first bird, sweetened the deal. I offer share the bounty of any game I harvest and in dry years, I give gift certificates for a good restaurant in town, or send a box of cheese and sausage at Christmas. That cost is little compared to the cost of taxes and fences by the landowner. I am also lucky to have public land around me. While opening day of any season brings out the hoards of fair weather hunters, I've found that by hunting nasty weather and later in the season, while not many folks are out there, the game is. There's a reason good hunting land has become so expensive and has priced many of us outta the game. Part of the challenge of the hunt is to overcome this and enjoy with what you have.
While the land you hunted that was logged may seem like a mess now and seems to have driven the deer away, will at some point in the near future, be a deer magnet. Just sayin'.
