<P> Since the 1980s, the term "poaching" has also referred to the illegal harvesting of wild plant species . In agricultural terms, the term' poaching' is also applied to the loss of soils or grass by the damaging action of feet of livestock which can affect availability of productive land, water pollution through increased runoff and welfare issues for cattle . </P> <P> Austria and Germany refer to poaching not as theft, but as intrusion in third party hunting rights . While Germanic law allowed any free man including peasants to hunt, especially on the commons, roman law restricted hunting for the rulers . In Medieval Europe feudal territory rulers from the king downward tried to enforce exclusive rights of the nobility to hunt and fish on the lands they ruled . Poaching was deemed a serious crime punishable by imprisonment, but the enforcement was comparably weak until the 16th century . Peasants were still able to continue small game hunting, but the right of the nobility to hunt was restricted in the 16th century and transferred to land ownership . </P> <P> The development of modern hunting rights is closely connected to the comparably modern idea of exclusive private property of land . In the 17th and 18th centuries the restrictions on hunting and shooting rights on private property were being enforced by gamekeepers and foresters . They denied shared usages of forests, e.g. resin collection and wood pasture and the peasant's right to hunt and fish . However, comparably easy access to rifles increasingly allowed peasants and servants to poach by end of the 18th century . </P> <P> The low quality of guns made it necessary to approach to the game as close as 30 m (98 ft). For example, poachers in the Salzburg region then were around 30 years old men, not yet married and usually alone on their illegal trade . Hunting was used in the 18th century as a theatrical demonstration of aristocratic rule of the land and had a strong impact on land use patterns as well . Poaching in so far inferred not only with property rights but clashed symbolically with the power of the nobility . During the years between 1830 and 1848 poaching and poaching related deaths increased in Bavaria . The revolution of 1848 was interpreted as a general allowance for poaching in Bavaria . The reform of hunting law in 1849 reduced legal hunting to rich land owners and the bourgeoisie able to pay the hunting fees and led to disappointment and ongoing praise of poachers among the people . Some of the frontier region, where smuggling was important, showed especially strong resistance . In 1849, the Bavarian military forces were asked to occupy a number of municipalities on the frontier to Austria . Both, in Wallgau (today a part of Garmisch - Partenkirchen) and in Lackenhäuser, (close to Wegscheid in the Bavarian forest) each household had to feed and accommodate one soldier for a month as part of a military mission to quell the uproar . The people of Lackenhäuser had had several skirmishes about poached deer with Austrian foresters and military, and were known as well armed pertly poachers (kecke Wilderer). </P>

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