@esparta @heycaseywattsup ideally the commons requires no intervention, but in practice the government needs to actively protect the commons from being enclosed by private interests.

Lakes and water ways in Oregon are public land, they're in the commons. But the city of Lake Oswego let private property owners restrict access to the lake it's named after, because there was no public land allowing access to everyone. A judge recently ruled that this was illegal and forced the city to allow access