SUN JOURNAL • May 14, 2022
Yet again, a legislative attempt to allow Sunday hunting in Maine has gone down in flames. Although SAM has long advocated for Sunday hunting, it opposed this attempt on two counts: One, this proposal was tantamount to so called reverse posting (all land off-limits to hunting unless posted otherwise), and two, it would have violated the Public Trust Doctrine inasmuch as landowners could hunt but non-landowners could not. But a group calling itself HUSH is bringing a lawsuit asserting that the right to harvest the food of their choosing is diminished by not being able to hunt on Sundays. The legal linchpin being used by the plaintiffs is Maine’s new state constitutional amendment called “The Right to Food Amendment. ~ V. Paul Reynolds