Over the years, I have held unchanging views regarding how public holdings such as forest service property should be treated. At the same time, I have had many conversations, sometimes debates, with others about this.
Essentially,
I feel we should be free use the land, for picking berries, hiking, camping,
fishing, hunting, and so forth, but do so with the utmost care and respect for
all resources provided. On more than one
occasion, someone has suggested to me that we should treat our public lands as
if we own them (which in a sense we do).
My
response is this: “No. I think we can do
better. I try to treat the land as if
you own it and have been kind enough to let me use it.”
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