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I too am glad to see this. Here’s an example of how it often pans out where baiting is legal on private lands: I have hunted with a friend in AR a couple of years on 200 acres of prime whitetail habitat with lots of deer. This friend is an ethical hunter who does not want to bait. But he is totally surround by other landowners who do bait. It is the tradition there, as anywhere it’s legal. Most of the year he has visible deer aplenty. Just before hunting seasons start the baiting heats up and most of his deer abandon his property for adjacent baited properties. And as soon as the hunting starts, even bowhunting, they go almost totally nocturnal (proven with game cams). While my friend hasn’t resorted to this yet, the pressure is tremendously heavy for even folks who don’t want to bait, to do it just to “even the odds.” To stop it, it must be illegal statewide and enforced. In W.VA where I’ve hunted, for example, baiting is illegal. Yet the locals drive around with trucks full of apples during hunting seasons, which they openly use in huge bait piles, and never get busted. Laws without teeth are worthless. Baiting isn’t hunting, period, and that’s why I’m against it. From the linked article, if you go to the home page, there’s a question box where you can enter your opinion on baiting. When I was there more than 2/3 of votes were in favor of outlawing baiting.