NYT article on public land access

[MtnElk]

Pretty good read and frames the issue of access and hunting in a pretty positive light. Could have done without the description of hunters as heavily armed. But I’ll take it given the light it sheds on a real issue.

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/11/26/business/hunting-wyoming-elk-mountain-access.html

 

[one ate E grain]

Well written anyway. I just came from there to see if anyone had posted yet. Colorado has a stream fishing case in the works too, not the same but along the same lines of access. Whether there are adjoining corners or not, I still want access to all public lands. Frankly something about making hunting a thing that costs thousands of dollars somehow seems contrary to the North American thingamajiggy.

 

[Brad]

Apart from claiming bull elk are 2,000lbs, it did a good job with the issue.

 

[Bigjay73]

A lengthy advertisement for OnX, but wow, that's some national attention aimed at the issues at hand with public access.

 

[Wind Gypsy]

Liked the overall article but here were a couple other things that made me cringe:

 

[DuncanDonettes]

The line about Eshelman being a mountain lion hunter also stuck with me when I first read the article. Why do they note specifically mountain lion hunting to refute that he's anti-hunting, but not other types of game hunting that are more typical? Is that the only thing he hunts? That's an odd choice of self restriction.

 

[CycleFishHunt]

Apart from claiming bull elk are 2,000lbs, it did a good job with the issue.

FWIW:

 

[Benfromalbuquerque]

Absolute horseshit landowners own airspace! It’s Class G unrestricted airspace. By the prosecution’s argument then the landowners in WY can down any aircraft crossing over their land.

 

[Deleted member 20812]

Absolute horseshit landowners own airspace! It’s Class G unrestricted airspace. By the prosecution’s argument then the landowners in WY can down any aircraft crossing over their land.

Don’t be giving any ideas…

 

[DuncanDonettes]

Absolute horseshit landowners own airspace! It’s Class G unrestricted airspace. By the prosecution’s argument then the landowners in WY can down any aircraft crossing over their land.

In my general area I got more than a dozen airports, umpteen flight schools, and a local PD that flies its fleet of choppers around aimlessly all day. That'll be $7.75M please.