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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Jack7" data-source="post: 5201061" data-attributes="member: 54707">No, I don't live in California or Oregon or Pennsylvania MW. I live in the Deep South. We don't need government regulations for everything (or most anything) we do. We just do stuff. (I'm kidding to a certain  degree, of course, but only partially. We don't much cotton around here to asking government permission to do what we wanna do with our own land. It's my land, I don't need a permit or to file papers. I'll do as I please.)When I got married it wasn't even legal for us to get hitched. Not according to the state constitution. But then I don't much care about laws or regulations that make no sense. So I did it anyway. I'm an American and a Southerner. The government and experts are way down on my pecking order. So when it comes to stuff like this I pay em no attention.They want my help for law and peacekeeping, or with SAR, or for the military, or for some disaster I'll do my bit to serve. They wanna tell me what to do with my own property or regulate my rights, they're flat outta luck.But to be more serious, cause I do understand your point (and I'm not making fun of your point, just the idea that I'd need permission from somebody else to do as I wish), I could file and make it official. But then I'd have to follow whatever crazy regulations the government might invent in the future. The regs aren't bad now, but I'm not selling out my rights or my land for whatever idiocy the government devises in the future.So instead I just told all my neighbors, "don't hunt on my land, the animals are safe there," and just about everybody around hunts but they all have their own land for that and so they respect my wishes. And I posted signs saying that if you do come on my land for purposes of poaching or other criminal activity then I'll shoot ya myself. Then arrest ya.As for the habitats I just made some studies of what kinds of animals like what kinds of homes then started making some or creating conditions favorable to their homesteading. Course some critters only lodge around here in certain seasons. And some only come up when they're being hunted elsewhere. But giving them a refuge has worked out real good for me and the kids. I like critters and it gives me and the kids a chance to study them up close. Gives the animals a safe place to live too. Well, as safe as you can get being a wild animal, seeing as how so many of em like to eat one another. Still, at least for my land I have taken the gun and knife off of their throats.</blockquote>

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