As the population grows there will be increased pressure on public lands for activities other than hunting. I see this being a huge issue in the near future. Where do you draw the line? Today it's geocaching and paintball.What will it be tomorrow? Hiking, picnicing, photo safari's? Maybe for safety reasons during hunting seasons you could regulate certain activities but it will be an uphill battle for sure. As a hunter I know what "I" would like see.

That's why I'm glad it's called Wildlife Management and not Public Land Management. The way things are set up in most places hunters do foot the bills for all these places so our wants should be considered over anyone else that wants to use this land. I do understand the geocachers wanting to use it but I think the paintballers are just trying to not have to pay to play at a paintball field. I could see how paintballers could completely ruin a place for hunting. They'd run deer out of the country.

Unnecessary disturbance to both wildlife and wildlife habitat, o’ really! What can I say, I bet roughing it is at the Two Story Sky Villa, The Palms Fantasy Suites, Las Vegas
Cost per night: $25,000!!

I wish I had a nickel for every hiker or hunter I witnessed regardless on foot or ATV pass right by a deer 12 feet away. They just lay down and as soon as they pass up pops there head!

Stupid people

Here's your sign!

I find more wildlife in a low populated area by humans out skirts of town etc than no human traffic at all!! ATV’s keep the trails open for wildlife to travel and I do agree there is a limit but these people just get downright overzealous!

Hey Scott Peterson, don’t you think you do need to get off the Golf Course and into the field or is it you don’t want to get your thongs muddy!

GIRLY MEN!

Lots of things are already banned in WMAs. I can't trap or target shoot in them for example. They have a dedicated purpose (hunting is a part of that purpose). Unfortunately people are too selfish to recognize that purpose and feel they can do whatever they want.

I'm OK with this.

I am all for this.

Nate

I do paintball in my woods, but generally only in one designated area, just as I have a pistol range for handgun practice. I don't think paintball should be allowed in WMAs, as far as geocaching goes it is like orienteering hide & seek, except that now that GPS units are so common nobody seems to know how to take a bearing and orient a topo map anymore; it seems too easy...
Anyway I think Geocaching is a pretty silly idea on WMAs in deer hunting season. Too easy for fools to get shot on their scavenger hunts. I have heard of damage done by geocachers digging holes and burying caches. There are 3 or 4 WMAs just here in my town, and the land is the property of the State, this being a Commonwealth, that means that the WMAs are partly my property, maintained by my taxes (with such minimal care that they get...)in another sense the WMA's belong to the wildlife it is reserved as habitat for, this would suggest no paintball, would you want it in your living room?

I am, or used to be an avid paintballer. There are two distinct playing styles. Indoor, which is usually faster paced and short games, and outdoor, which is a bit slower paced but longer and involves different tactics. But a national park is no place for paintball. It is messy, however the paint is biodegradable. Not sure about geocaching, however. I don't really see how that disturbs much. Isn't it basically hiking?