> “Private property owners are some of the biggest conservation stewards right now,” he says. “I feel like the beauty of our lands and species survival is up to private landowners.”<p>Stands out as somewhat hypocritical to think in those terms but then act selfishly and hide the beauty away.
That's been going on for decades. I recall barbed wire on rivers in the Colorado Rockies. Also on some creeks in the Southeast.<p>But yes, hitting barbed wire sucks for canoers and kayakers. It can get people killed. Some of us carried wire cutters.