02-03-2004, 08:27 PM
There are many, so we say, not so honest organizations, out there that do exactly that. They suspiciously act like PETA in their thinking and actions, at least to me. Makes me wonder!! I once worked with a man who did exactly that in northeast Colorado. He bought a key tract of land that was the winter home for a herd of elk. His land intersected a small section that was an access route to the national forest beyond his property, used for dozens of years without a problem by hunters, fishermen and hikers. After buying, he posted it and regularly patrolled it, taking names and filed trespass charges against anyone he caught on "his" land. To get around his land required a hard 50 mile detour only the toughest of vehicles could manuever. And he thought it was funny to boot. I could easily have strangled him without remorse. Needless to say, we didn't get along.
The last I heard about him, a group of hunters had taken him to court over the issue. At the heart of the matter is the "old road" law used by the Dept of the Interior to open national forest land to logging, thanks to President Bush and his cronies. In the suit, the hunters presented documentation that the area had been used for a hundred years by people migrating to Wyoming and Utah and beyond. If they are successful, a favorable ruling will force the man to allow hunting parties access to the national forest via his land without harrassement or hinderance. He'll need to get chapstick, mixed with Preparation H, by the gallon if that happens. Couldn't happen to a more deserving man.
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The last I heard about him, a group of hunters had taken him to court over the issue. At the heart of the matter is the "old road" law used by the Dept of the Interior to open national forest land to logging, thanks to President Bush and his cronies. In the suit, the hunters presented documentation that the area had been used for a hundred years by people migrating to Wyoming and Utah and beyond. If they are successful, a favorable ruling will force the man to allow hunting parties access to the national forest via his land without harrassement or hinderance. He'll need to get chapstick, mixed with Preparation H, by the gallon if that happens. Couldn't happen to a more deserving man.
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