Shed hunting trespassers and rule breakers

[yogru]

Always was a dream of mine to own some property next to state/federal land for hunting purposes.  Seeing stuff like this, it's probably better it remained a dream for me.   Sorry you have to deal with crap like this man.

[Feathernfurr]

That’s some serious destruction of property. Would be nice if you could cover your property in old bear traps. I would definitely be looking into some more serious deterrents or camera set ups that can provide some prosecutable evidence or at least reliable enough cell service to be able to get local LEO’s to the property when you know people are there.

Why are trespassers targeting your property so heavily? Is it excluding access to public in some way or is it just the best access point? At the numbers you mention during season and shed season I’d be out there enforcing it myself, that would infuriate me.

Not to sound accusatory, or to insist you aren’t doing enough to stop them. I just don’t have the details to make sense of it and I know I would be losing my mind trying to keep people off my property.

[92xj]

id start protecting my land from grizzlies with the trip wire 12 gauge blanks.  If nothing else, I would have some internal humor knowing a bear just crapped his pants when crossing onto my property.

[MADMAX]

My first question is, where are you located because that’s BS
You don’t have to be exact but close to a big town name would be nice that way the rest of us can avoid such an area
Realistically, it doesn’t matter cause they do it everywhere
 I understand that

[GWP]

We looked at a property butted up to Federal lands that has an easement road through the middle of it that is under fairly deep water much of the year. Talked to the current owner about it and it appears a lot of people think it is his responsibility to make sure they have access to the Fed lands at all times, up to and including that he should put a culvert in. Yeah, no.

I get that people want to be, or think they are ‘special’, but the constant disregard for ‘the rules’ is irritating. Particularly after talking to them about it over and over. The destruction of private property makes it worse.

[Rainier10]

Do you have your property well posted?

Yes every 30-40 yards there is a sign of you are standing in front of one sign and look left you can see a sign and if you look right you can see a sign.

They are great for target practice.

[2MANY]

Oh yea I've Trespassed there.
Great Cougar hunting.

































































Kidding.
Signs are a good thought but don't work at my place either.
I've had great luck meeting trespassers with blind rage but a guy could get Killed using that technique as well.
Amazing how people can be so self serving.

[Rainier10]

I had a guy park in front of one of the signs and say according to on x I owned the other side of the road. I actually own both sides. I directed to the DNR just north of me. “We were up there but all of the deer were down here”.

I have had a county employee remove my signs because “he thought I had posted DNR land.” When questioned about it he called DNR and was told that years ago DNR did a land swap with a timber company and then the timber company sold me the land. He apologized for ripping my signs down.

The stories of abuse are never ending and people are shocked when private land gets closed.

[zwickeyman]

I have never understood why people trespass. Not only is illegal and immoral but why would you want to spend time doing something you love and have to always be looking over your shoulder

[Taco280AI]

That sucks, I'd be calling the sheriff's office fairly often.

[b0bbyg]

How much would it cost to hire a off duty officer that could write tickets?

Be curious if a possibility to start having some actual punishment handed down.

We could start a go fund me 
Everyone wants something done, how many would chip in?

[Rainier10]

The problem is enforcement officers and the lack of them.

The cameras give me a great timeline and trespassers are on a decent schedule. Pictures didn’t work. They needed real time photos to catch them in the act.

Okay, cell cam goes up.

Hey I have a guy parked along road hiking in right now. Should be coming back out at 7:30pm.  10am next day enforcement shows up. Couldn’t get there the day before and of course 30 hours later the trespassers were long gone.

[b0bbyg]

The problem is enforcement officers and the lack of them.

The cameras give me a great timeline and trespassers are on a decent schedule. Pictures didn’t work. They needed real time photos to catch them in the act.

Okay, cell cam goes up.

Hey I have a guy parked along road hiking in right now. Should be coming back out at 7:30pm.  10am next day enforcement shows up. Couldn’t get there the day before and of course 30 hours later the trespassers were long gone.

Understood, wish state had more boots on ground.
That's why I was wondering if you could pay one to work an off day to just patrol/monitor a specific area.  Was not sure if you could do that and if they would have all the same authority to fine, ticket, seize, arrest etc

[Ironhead]

Are they poaching any animals from your land? The reason I ask is, I know it will get LEO's there in a hurry, at least it does on my place.
I am lucky I guess, there are no roads on my place except the driveway to my house. Of course there are always the ones that sit on the public road with their rifle out the window scoping the Deer above my house.
I am sure you have thought about tank trapping the road but, that may ruin your access as well.
That sucks you are having that many trespassers.

[jrebel]

Some people are complete scum.....

Sisters property has rural hwy frontage.  It has been posted multiple times and the signs just get ripped down.  I now have cameras and have caught a couple folks trespassing.  It is really bad during turkey season as there are a lot of turkey in the area.  It isn't a high priority for LEO in the area, so I just keep their pictures....one of these days I will catch them in the act and have a pile of pictures for LEO to make the case.  I'm pretty positive a few of the guys are locals.  If I can confirm, they will get one chance to apologize or I will post their picture at the local watering hole to let all the other locals know they are trespassers.  Until I catch them, or confirm their identity.....their pictures will remain private.