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		lolc on June 1, 2023 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Judge rules Wyoming corner crossers did not trespa... That was a surprising lesson for me when I was roaming California and asked a local how to reach that hill: "You can't, it's private." Hadn't encountered the idea before that one could restrict access to forest like that.

opello on June 2, 2023 [–]

Neither had the native peoples prior to Europeans colonizing.

mcv on June 2, 2023 | [–]

I wonder if that might be why the US has stricter property laws on this and no universal right to roam: to restrict the native people.

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