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2 THE RURAL VOICE
Re: feedback column, Letter
Misleading, April issue of The Rural
Voice.
First of all, I am forced to say that I
find Mr. Taylor's insinuation that rural
landowners are uneducated to be in
very poor taste, and totally uncalled
for. Of course, we all realize that this
is the normal attitude of most hunters
toward rural landowners.
If I were representing rural land-
owners and had been in any way in-
volved in formulating the present tres-
pass act, I would be ashamed to admit
it. Leaving a hunter to guard the
rights of rural landowners sounds just
like the old fable about leaving the fox
to guard the chickens. "The Trespass
Act was designed by hunters, for
hunters, it has absolutely no teeth in
it." — quoted from a statement made
by Sergeant Ray Peshaw, who, at the
time, was Detachment Commander,
Burk's Falls O.P.P. For this reason
hunters, generally speaking, do not
respect private land, or recognize the
existence of the Trespass Act.
Hunters will continue to trespass
until the law is changed to require the
landowner's signature to validate their
hunting license. For any regulation to
be effective, it must be simple to ap-
ply, and carry penalties strong enough
to act as a deterrent. The charge of
hunting without a valid license meets
both of these requirements. The
charge of trespass certainly does not.
I believe the trespass problem applies
more to hunters than it does to other
types of trespassers. Trespassers, for
example, carrying a fishing rod, are
not nearly as arrogant as a trespassing
hunter who is carrying a shotgun.
The April 1989 issue of the publi-
cation Ontario Out Of Doors quotes
John Clarke, a former member of Me-
donte Township Council, as saying,