Electric Valley? Wire Canyon? Zap Way?

  • anton
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    1 year ago

    “Land of the free”, doesn’t have right to roam…

    • RedAggroBest@lemmy.world
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      1 year ago

      Because it’s not needed outside the eastern US. The vast majority of land around me is public and anyone can go out. Right to roam would just give me the right to trample through someone’s property when there’s plenty of public land to go around it with, which is what right to roam usually entails anyways.

      This is genuinely a states issue and not something federal.

      • lud@lemm.ee
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        1 year ago

        Walking very close to someone’s home is also illegal with the right to roam. The right to roam just gives everyone the right to walk were they want except in someone’s garden. You can also camp anywhere (gardens excluded of course) for a day (or two can’t remember) without asking anyone for permission.

        One kinda surprising thing is that everyone is allowed to enter fenced animal pastures, provided that they aren’t malicious and that they close the gate.

        It’s an amazing right that should exist in the entire world.

        • RedAggroBest@lemmy.world
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          11 months ago

          You don’t seem to understand that my house, my town, and the majority of my state, are massive amounts of public forest. I have every right to wander and camp, as long as I’m not squatting (which is it’s own mess of an issue where what counts “permanently inhabiting” an area), anywhere in that public forest.

          Why would my state govt have any reason to enshrine a right that would just make more people trespass because they don’t understand the law? Those that follow that law would then have nothing change.

          This is why I say it’s a states’ issue. This won’t be the same across the entire US.

          • lud@lemm.ee
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            11 months ago

            Trespassing isn’t really an issue here so why would it be an issue there?

            If it’s legal now, then passing a law country wide would be no issue.

            I am just of the opinion that this should be right everywhere regardless of where you live in the world.

            Btw, I am just curious, is it rare in the USA to see berry and mushroom pickers? That’s included in the rights so we do have a lot of them.

            • WoahWoah@lemmy.world
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              11 months ago

              There are people who harvest wild food, yes. I think you need to understand that just our national forests are almost twice the size of the entirety of Sweden. Then there are state forests, national parks, and state parks. Texas alone is 50% larger than Sweden, and Alaska is 3x larger than Texas.

              • lud@lemm.ee
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                11 months ago

                Sizes don’t matter.

                I don’t get why you are so against it when it apparently wouldn’t change anything because you have so much land anyways.

                Just give everyone the freedom to walk wherever they want. It doesn’t hurt anyone.

    • Gormadt
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      1 year ago

      NGL I really wish we had that here

      There’s some beautiful places that are cut off from people because of it being private property

      The worst is when someplace becomes private property after being open to the public for a long time