A hobby of mine includes browsing various landscapes pictures and contemplating issues that may arise in defining property rights. It tends to be a fun thought experiment but i wonder if there would be any demand for such information within a blog or website?
Read until you have something to write...Write until you have nothing to write...when you have nothing to write, read...read until you have something to write...Jeremiah
If anyone hasn't already homesteaded that green patch in the ocean I'll take it, and make my property line go as far as I can walk on a low tide from any point outward. You can keep the giant rock in the first picture.
No way dude. Already claimed that tree third to the left and the first 32 meters extending in a cone south from the tree at a 45degree angle (the angle of cones point).
In States a fresh law is looked upon as a remedy for evil. Instead of themselves altering what is bad, people begin by demanding a law to alter it. ... In short, a law everywhere and for everything!
~Peter Kropotkin
Roderick Long mentioned he had investigated how environmental preserves might be homesteaded. How does this work? The forest is just sitting there and BAM its somehow homesteaded?
I'd assume setting the boundaries of the preserve (fencing, gatekeeping) and maintenance of the local area (culling and tagging of wildlife, maintaining the trees with tree surgeons, dendrologists and botanists, putting out forest fires) would qualify as homesteading under Long's philosophy.
So there can't just be a nice rainforest? You have to actually DO stuff like setting up fences? What if setting up fences were really expensive or impractical or harmed the nature reserve? I'm thinking of coral reefs more now. Why isn't this crap forestalling the homesteading of others??