KENNEBEC JOURNAL • March 20, 2021
L.D. 1033, “An Act to Allow Sunday Hunting on Private Property with Written Permission of the Landowner,” limits the opportunities of non-land-owning hunters and prioritizes opportunities for land-owning hunters. This bill rejects the fact that all hunters, landowners or not, equally fund wildlife management and should therefore have the same equal rights of access. Maine has come a long way from the extirpation of wildlife during the market hunting days. Over time, all hunters have made the commitment towards wildlife recovery and protecting hunting in Maine. Certain landowners, and their chosen few, should not have more rights to the wildlife that all hunters equally cherish. ~ Trent Emery, Wayne