Heres an analogy-work with me on this:
Say you grew up fishing the same small, private lake in MN. It was a great lake, and you never saw another fishermen. Your family spent countless weekends fishing, camping, enjoying nature in it's purest. Very special to you.
Now one day some fishermen show up, no big deal. But a couple years later you start noticing fishermen on the lake every weekend when it used to be a once in a while deal.
Next thing you know there's up to 4 boats on this small lake, and there's a small breakout of milfoil in one area. Is that really a pile of dead fish over there in the ditch?
Next year someone bought up half the land around the lake, and put up a marina. There's jet skis ziping around the lake, and there's trash here and there around the lake.
a couple years later you come to the public access and it's closed. It appears someone from Chicago bought the other half of the lake, and the access too. The cost is $100 to launch. What the heck happened???
A little dramatic, but all of these cases in some respects has happened in my small area that I hunt within the last 6 years. I'm not "blaming" anyone, but for the guy who just lost his special hotspot it's kind of easy to start pointing fingers in a lot of directions, even though there's too many to single out. Just makes you a bit shady of outsiders, but there's obviously more good than bad.
On a side note, 4 quarters down from our place were just purchased by a group from Chicago. They paid an arm and a leg, and they're looking around for more. This is happening so often now I have a hard time citing examples. :eyeroll: I'll get off my soapbox now.