03-13-2012, 06:08 PM
What if the person taking the pics had bad intentions for you or your family, I know that would piss me off, plus it's just plain creepy. I understand what your getting at and I do think it is insane to say you can't take pictures of scenery or animals. What I'm getting at is that we need to respect the landowners rights and the reason that most landowners are so touchy is because most people don't. On the flipside I don't think it is the governments job to patrol and regulate what happens on private ground, that responsibility is the landowners problem. In reality this law is so ridiculous and would be so hard to enforce that I doubt it will make it much further. I mean what is there gonna be some kind of photo shop task force hiding on fence lines looking for would be photo offenders? I mean think about what would happen to google, they would be in for one hell of a lawsuit.
The people that own wilderness or land with rivers going through it have just as much a right to protect it as you do with your own home, pasture, ect. There's not a bit of difference between walking on private land and shooting a buck you saw on public and walking up a river from public to private. Yes, we pay money as the public every year to preserve and manage these resources but bottom line is trespassing is trespassing no matter how you cut it. And private land is beneficial to the public because it gives wildlife a recluse from the masses and I think that benefits the surrounding areas.
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The people that own wilderness or land with rivers going through it have just as much a right to protect it as you do with your own home, pasture, ect. There's not a bit of difference between walking on private land and shooting a buck you saw on public and walking up a river from public to private. Yes, we pay money as the public every year to preserve and manage these resources but bottom line is trespassing is trespassing no matter how you cut it. And private land is beneficial to the public because it gives wildlife a recluse from the masses and I think that benefits the surrounding areas.
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