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bigdog:
Here is one for someone to answer. Or at least give me an idea where to find the law.

Does a Nebraska land owner have to buy a deer hunting license if they hunt their own land only? I know the game and parks says you do.

I had a USDA gentlemen tell my son-in-law he does not need a deer license to hunt his own land.

Is this just a Game and Parks thing to get more money?

barmandr:
Will the USDA gentleman pay your fines when Game and Parks nabs you?  Yes, regardless of what that yahoo said, you need a permit, it fully outlines the requirements on the NE Fish and Game website.  A hunting license is not required to hunt any big game in Nebraska, whether on your own land, public land, or private land, BUT a Big Game Permit IS required big game.  http://outdoornebraska.ne.gov/hunting/guides/biggame/pdfs/biggame.pdf

JimP:
IIRC, wild game in the state of Nebraska belongs to the people of the state of Nebraska, and it does not matter whose land it's on- the Game and Parks still gets to manage the resource for the people.  The landowner still owns the land, and controls access, but the wild game on it is not his to do with as he pleases.  It belongs to all of us.

To hunt big game on their own land only, a land owner needs to buy a landowner big game permit, and describe the land to be hunted on the application (by section and township).

CitizenClark:

--- Quote from: JimP on July 24, 2013, 10:44:10 AM ---IIRC, wild game in the state of Nebraska belongs to the people of the state of Nebraska,
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Kind of reminds you of how kings act, no?

"No sir, even though you own that land, that deer is not your deer. No sir! That is the king's deer! You had better not be poaching the king's deer, or big fellas with weapons will come and find you and make you sorry!"


--- Quote ---and it does not matter whose land it's on- the Game and Parks still gets to manage the resource for the people.  The landowner still owns the land, and controls access, but the wild game on it is not his to do with as he pleases.  It belongs to all of us.

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Tragedies of the commons are tragic.

Communal ownership of valuable resources leads to those resources being wastefully mismanaged approximately 100% of the time.

JimP:

--- Quote ---Communal ownership of valuable resources leads to those resources being wastefully mismanaged approximately 100% of the time.

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Untrue.

There are more deer in Nebraska now than ever.  Same with wild turkey.

While there are not as many pheasants now as there were a few decades ago, there are many more than there were 150 years ago, when there were NONE: they were introduced from China by a private individual in Oregon in the 1880's and distributed around the midwest by various state Game depts. after the turn of the century.

Before management by Federal and State Game agencies, wild game was managed by nobody, and nearly everything was hunted to near extinction.

Without regulation, we'd have that again.

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