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Originally Posted by West O'5
Ok well fair enough....but that is one sentence amongst an entire book that is overwhelming with seasons and rules and whatnot compared to the comparatively simple hunting regs in other provinces....and in all honesty,I'm adamantly certain that there are a fairly high percentage of born n raised Albertans that have never read the regs cover to cover,let alone any newcomers to the province that may already have decades of hunting experience doing things a certain way back home,where "occupied land" may or may not be defined in a completely different manner.
I'm just sayn......when a new Albertan hunts here and sees vast tracts of woodlands or wide open fields and bald ass Prairie without a house to be seen for miles/as far as the eye can see,it's a pretty good bet that he'll think it's ok to hunt there unless he knows the rules aren't the same,which again,far too many hunters,both newcomers and native Albertans,don't read or know the regs as well as they should.If you need any proof of that,simply watch for the numerous almost daily threads every fall asking "dumb questions" when the answers are clearly printed in black and white(or green as the case may be😜  in the annual hunting regs.......people just don't read them for whatever reason,that,or they move here from elsewhere and presume that things are the same as far as trespass/discharge distance etc goes and assume that they already know the answers. |
What is wrong with people today, born here or not, is it really the case that we can't expect a man to do the bare minimum as far as acquainting himself with the laws of this province? This is a big country, what it takes to practice proper conservation is going to look different based on the ecological context, anybody that would assume that its 'just the same as back home' is setting themselves up to be hammered with fines, and they deserve it