Skroch said the issue has been a hot one during the session, and she worries that landowners across the state are at a "flashpoint." She fears that without some fundamental property protections, landowners will "lock the land up so tight,…
In 2009, the editor of an outdoor recreation magazine decided that, rather than portaging his canoe down a 0.8 mile public trail connecting a series of streams and ponds on public land, he would canoe across private property, which allowed…
Defense lawyer Jesse Merrithew, representing Ryan, said the general trespass provision in federal regulations governing national wildlife refuges is unclear. It states: "No person shall trespass, including but not limited to entering, occupying, using, or being upon, any national wildlife refuge, except…
Moline said, now when people are caught killing livestock they are fined and must pay the rancher the market value of the animal. At the meeting, the agency agreed that restitution costs should be more punishing. With the new policy, poachers…