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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Bed Wetter" data-source="post: 313309" data-attributes="member: 428">I’ve been rolling around ideas for making changes to existing G&F statutes if all land becomes posted. In the USA, all game is considered the possession of “the people.” These are not the kings fowl. To maintain this North American model of wildlife conservation, our approach to hunting/trapping laws will have to change dramatically if all private land becomes default posted.I have some ideas. Some of these ideas may be dumber then others, so feel free to make suggestions and point out flaws. It’s not helpful to come up with retaliatory rules, I just want to keep on hunting in ND without it being a commercial affair. GST, get your keyboard ready so you can misconstrue what’s discussed here later for political purposes. - Land posted “PLOTS” or “open to hunting” or otherwise enrolled as CRP acreage is open to hunting/trapping without landowner permission.- Eliminate gratis tags: otherwise these deer become “the landowners’ deer”- Eliminate hunting units or dramatically reduce the total number of units: you may have to search far and wide to fill a tag. G&F can adjust the total available tags accordingly.- make ditches and section lines open to hunting: just like you can fish a navigable waterway that touches someone’s land, you should be able to hunt navigable roads and trails.- require landowners who earn income from granting land access to possess liability insurance (whether hunting, development, rigging, etc.)- require landowners or leasers who earn income from granting land access for the taking of game to possess an outfitters license. (Exclusion for sportsman who exchange agricultural labor services in return for access.)- access ND Legacy funds for establishing recreational shooting areas- access ND Legacy funds for purchasing property to be permanently devoted to wildlife habitat and public sporting opportunities- establish an excise tax from non-resident hunting license fees to fund the maintenance of publicly owned/operated wildlife habitat.What else?Obviously, much of this would require legislative action. Some of it agency policy. Some of it constitutional amendments.</blockquote>

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