For those that think I am crazy when I see patterns in my news aggregating erupting, whether it be transfer of federal public lands, local trespass traps/corner crossing, Russian connections, etc...
Privatizing our road/trail access brought to you by PERC, once again, like toll roads, where you pay the landowner, yes, a only a willing landowner.
With Airbnb, homeowners share the privacy of their own homes with total strangers. Uber drivers use their personal vehicles to give rides to people they don’t know. Why? Because the services allow users to contract in convenient, mutually beneficial ways and provide assurances that both sides will act responsibly.
Those same principles can be harnessed to provide private-land access — and, to some extent, they already are. Want to pitch a tent on private land? HipCamp, a startup based in San Francisco, has created a land-sharing program that allows people to do just that. Powderhook, an outdoor company in Nebraska, has experimented with a similar model for hunting and fishing access. And a Michigan college student is developing a land-sharing app that allows hunters and anglers to lease private land for short periods of time.
On the
14th there was article from another PERC guy in Colorado,
Greg Walcher. I dug into PERC last year, they have member all over, not just Bozeman, and are extremely well funded. They can sit around and crank out privatizing articles, use their network until your eyes bleed, promoting privatization and profiting off of what the public has already had.
Now they are coming after our historic road/trail access, which by itself is bad enough, but it is a bridge to an even larger issue, the rest of our public lands.
The face of what is to come.
Perhaps one day, after summer vacations, oh, and then there is hunting season, that means end of November, damn, but then that puts us into Thanksgiving and then Christmas and don't forget New Years... okay so maybe around mid January, hunters and anglers might have some time to give a $h*t to start playing the inevitable defense again. That might be optimistic. The pattern seems to be to wait until a bill or agency directive is happening, if they catch it, then run around with hair on fire, trying to prevent this from happening nationwide. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Personally, I hate defense!
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We need this issue addressed in other states, in larger news media, organization publications and outdoor journals, not just Montana.
Yeah, that huge population map is going to look very interesting next to the outfitting landownership info.
