05-14-2019, 04:46 PM
For those who might wonder why hikers are fixated on roaming over lava fields, here is part of the answer:
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The Freedom to Roam
Excerpts from Wikipedia. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freedom_to_roam
"The freedom to roam, or "everyman's right", is the general public's right to access certain public or privately owned land, lakes, and rivers for recreation and exercise...
In Scotland, the Nordic countries of Finland, Iceland, Norway...(etc.)...(some) Central European countries..., the freedom to roam takes the form of general public rights which are sometimes codified in law. Ancient traces provide evidence of the freedom to roam in many European countries, suggesting such a freedom was once a common norm...
the right usually does not include...hunting or logging, or disruptive activities, such as making fires and driving offroad vehicles...
In Finland...everyone may walk, ski, ride a horse or cycle freely in the countryside where this does not harm the natural environment or the landowner, except in gardens or in the immediate vicinity of people's homes (yards)...
Everyone in Norway enjoys the right of access to, and passage through, uncultivated land in the countryside...
In England and Wales, after a polarized debate, in 2000 the Government legislated to introduce a limited right to roam, without compensation for landowners...
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In America, where private property rights are considered inviolate, this thinking is widely regarded as absurd and a tenet of communist ideology.
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The Freedom to Roam
Excerpts from Wikipedia. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freedom_to_roam
"The freedom to roam, or "everyman's right", is the general public's right to access certain public or privately owned land, lakes, and rivers for recreation and exercise...
In Scotland, the Nordic countries of Finland, Iceland, Norway...(etc.)...(some) Central European countries..., the freedom to roam takes the form of general public rights which are sometimes codified in law. Ancient traces provide evidence of the freedom to roam in many European countries, suggesting such a freedom was once a common norm...
the right usually does not include...hunting or logging, or disruptive activities, such as making fires and driving offroad vehicles...
In Finland...everyone may walk, ski, ride a horse or cycle freely in the countryside where this does not harm the natural environment or the landowner, except in gardens or in the immediate vicinity of people's homes (yards)...
Everyone in Norway enjoys the right of access to, and passage through, uncultivated land in the countryside...
In England and Wales, after a polarized debate, in 2000 the Government legislated to introduce a limited right to roam, without compensation for landowners...
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In America, where private property rights are considered inviolate, this thinking is widely regarded as absurd and a tenet of communist ideology.