The information pertaining to not signing a lease agreement has been tremendous. I'm relying on it to be factual and not emotional or based on interpretation? It seems like it all comes down to “the bigger the risk, the bigger the reward”. With that comes responsibility on behalf of the landowner to follow up, follow through and track their own mineral production. The way I see it is that if you're going to be one of the "Haynesville Holdouts" that owns an insignificant amount of land in a subdivision you want as many of your neighbors to sign up as possible to let the drilling begin (so "mums the word"). You also need to realize that by holding out you are like the guy who works for a union based company who refuses to join the union, pay union dues and participate in union business (strikes) but gets all the rewards and benefits associated with the Union. If you're in a right to work state you can do it but if everyone did it there would be no union negotiating on everyone’s behalf and you would not be well liked by all the members who did join, pay dues and participate. As my mother used to say “If you don’t like the heat then stay out of the kitchen” (please don’t turn this analogy into a union debate and get off the subject of the Haynesville Shale). The question then becomes is it worth giving up 75% of the royalties to let someone else take all the risks and divvy up the proceeds accordingly?

Does anyone know of a website that shows a map and/or plat of the townships and sections of NWLA? One last thing, the latest term I've been hearing is "Landowner At Large" is that the same as "Forced Pooling (Consent/Non-consent) or is it even a term used in Louisiana?