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You would have to ask my permission to hunt Bigfoot, or anything else, on my land, so, as a miniscule part owner of the government land, I require you to get permission to hunt there as well. No loss of freedom. Just protecting the rights of property owners. Protecting these rights is an RW axiom. Correct?
If property owners had "rights" in regard to hunting, they would not be required to obtain hunting licenses for their use on their own property.
Last I checked, taking photographs/video did not equate to "hunting". Does every individual who may take a photograph at a National Park or BLM land obtain a permit in order to do it? No, instead they pay taxes upon the sale of the photograph/video if they make their hobby an income earning business/profession. Usually larger scale activities which involve multiple days, people and vehicles, require some sort of "special use permit" but those do not always cost money, often they just reserve a portion of the public land for that group's use for a specified limited time (beginning & end dates included).
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The federal government owns 30 percent of Americas land mass. A sell off is in order to pay down the debt.
The US government already does this with timber and mineral/energy (oil/nat. gas) permitting, lease and sales. In regard to the thread topic "hunting licenses" are issued by the individual states unless falling under the federal migratory category (birds).
Frankly, it would not suprise me to see states close down or sell parks they can no longer afford to maintain. Plenty of uber-elite in the top 10% of the 1% are waiting in the sidelines to gobble up this land for their holdings as The Fed continues to devalue the US Dollar.
The US government already does this with timber and mineral/energy (oil/nat. gas) permitting, lease and sales. In regard to the thread topic "hunting licenses" are issued by the individual states unless falling under the federal migratory category (birds).
Frankly, it would not suprise me to see states close down or sell parks they can no longer afford to maintain. Plenty of uber-elite in the top 10% of the 1% are waiting in the sidelines to gobble up this land for their holdings as The Fed continues to devalue the US Dollar.
The THREAD TOPIC is not about hunting licenses at all. The THREAD TOPIC is about a man selling camping excursions to people for the purpose of possibly sighting Bigfoot. The man provides guide services at pre-specified dates and locations at $300-$500 per customer. He doesn't provide equipment or meals, and he doesn't promise results. He sold a Bigfoot Expedition to approximately 31 people in February along the Buffalo River in Arkansas. He brought in those people and set up camp at a designated campsite. He failed to notify the park that he was bringing in a large group of people during the off-season, and two park rangers doing routine maintenance work stumbled upon him and 17 of his guests. When asked what he was doing, he explained the purpose of his trip. The rangers explained to him that as he was essentially selling tours of the park that he was a concessionaire, and that as a concessionaire it was necessary for him to apply for and pay for a permit. He was issued a citation for failure to do so, but allowed to continue with his "expedition". He paid the fine for operating a concession without a permit in a national park area, which was approximately $525.00. He deemed the expedition a success (evidently he found scat which he attributes to Bigfoot) and hopes to come again. After the several expeditions he has planned in other parts of the country. This is how he makes his living. He made about $10,000 off gullible people on his expedition in February, and will probably make more off the others he has planned. The park has an interest in concessioners running their businesses professionally, and in alerting the park of such expeditions. As it is park personnel that will have to risk their lives finding lost expeditioners, rescuing hikers that fall from bluffs, alerting campers of potential flash floods.
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Restricting our freedom, and then charging us a tax to have it back, is a big money maker!
Try that in the private sector as your business to make a living.
Why don't you try walking into someone's corner office in the private sector to film a shot without first obtaining permission/offering compensation and see how that works out for ya?
Why don't you try walking into someone's corner office in the private sector to film a shot without first obtaining permission/offering compensation and see how that works out for ya?
I see they taught you the difference in public and private.
About this time in 1983 working late at night alone on the railroad following a surfacing gang a tree began violently shaking from side to side with a whooping noise echoing in the hills.So I hurried to get my work done and get out of there about the time I was about finished the MoW foreman sent a man back to check on me because I borrowed his large flashlight he scared the living **** out of me.
I believe in Bigfoot but have Yeti to actually see one....
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