I am against hunting on Sundays. I own 90 acres of fields and woods in Bowdoin, and my family is actively restoring the land to a working farm. Every hunting season, we are unable to enjoy our own investment.

Although I do support hunting (my husband goes out for a nap in the woods every now and then), I do not support a seven-day-a-week season in which those of us who enjoy walking in the woods, riding our horses or taking our dogs for a run in the fields are unable to do so.

I do not feel as though I should give up use of my property for several solid weeks so that someone else can hunt.

I think I may speak for many large-parcel landowners in feeling that we share our land for six days a week during hunting, but if the season is expanded to seven days, I’ll be the first to post no-trespassing signs.

Access to my land is the public’s six-days-a-week privilege, not a seven-days-a-week right.

For those of us who do not hunt but still appreciate the great outdoors, there ought to be one safe day to enjoy our land.

Stephanie Leighton, Bowdoin

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