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> What could hunting and fishing look like should our public lands fall under state control? Turn to Europe ... where plenty of nations have Right to Roam over
by vacri 10y ago
> What could hunting and fishing look like should our public lands fall under state control? Turn to Europe
... where plenty of nations have Right to Roam over private lands for their citizens? Can't see that ever happening in the US. Hunting isn't widespread in Europe, sure, but hunting isn't the only thing that you can do on the land.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freedom_to_roam https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freedom_to_roam
- gumby 10y agoWhy do you think hunting is not widespread in Europe? IMHO it's quite common and the delicious meals that result are common too!
- prawn 10y agoAgree. Hunting is not uncommon in Europe. I spent time in Southern France recently and on weekend mornings frequently heard guns going off as hunters went after birds, saw their cars and dogs, etc.
- arethuza 10y agoLarge parts of Scotland are privately owned and run purely for hunting - grouse moors and deer forests (although not many trees in a Scottish deer forest). Mind you, we do have the "Right to Roam" so we can wander about all of that land and camp where we want (main exclusion being that you have no right to use powered vehicles).
- vacri 10y agoAdmittedly not European myself, and I know that there is some hunting in Europe (and used to work with a Polish guy whose family hunted pigs), but it doesn't seem anywhere near as pervasive as hunting in the US.
- gumby 10y agoI think you would be surprised, and if you are into hunting, pleasantly so by the level of shooting that goes on in Europe. Outside the US the stereotype about America goes the other way: that all the shooting is of people. In case it's not obvious: I know this belief is incorrect.
- mikkom 10y agoFYI, in Finnish we have a very comprehensive "right to roam" legislation called "everymans right" but hunting is one of the exclusions in addition to camping to that right and I think correctly so. http://www.nationalparks.fi/hikinginfinland/rightsandregulations http://www.nationalparks.fi/hikinginfinland/rightsandregulat...
- Mediterraneo10 10y agoCamping is allowed under Finnish everyman’s right (as your own link indicates), but a camper is supposed to stay at any one site for no more than one night.
- maxxxxx 10y agoRight to roam would be a nice thing for the US. There are so many wide open areas that are completely closed off by fences for no good reason. At least there should be a rule that you have provided a certain number of paths through the area.
- flyingfences 10y agoI don't know about all of the USA, but here in Maine we have something similar. Most of the land in New England is privately held (because people settled here so long ago compared to the west), but people are still more or less free to roam about it. So long as you're actually out in the woods and not chilling in somebody's back yard, you're in the clear. Landowners can prohibit certain uses - hunting, foraging, etc., or even any trespassing - but the default is for land to be open, any restrictions must be clearly posted, and I believe that there are tax incentives for keeping the land open.