One of my friends moved to Vermont a couple years ago. He's said that privately owned land is legal to hunt on if it's not explicitly posted as "no trespassing". Is this true out there?
Younger farmers seem to be money centric...
It's all down hill once you've got Bambi. Think on the bright side.It's kind of a bummer because I can't get to some favorite spots without hiking 6 or 7 miles now - all up hill.
there's no harm in offering to help with some chores, its what neighbors do.
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Younger farmers seem to be money centric...
I agree 100% with dwwhite in post #10.
All you see is the deer, or turkey or some other type of game. What I see is the tax bills and my "I need to pay this" accounts.
How do I make money if the fence you just broke needs to be repaired? The gate you were supposed to close was left open and now I am chasing cows trying to get them back to where they belong?
Much of the private land we hunt on in Washington and Oregon is forest owned by paper and lumber companies.
We had some hunters drive all the way up from southern CA to our Idaho camp this year. They had no contingency plans if their camp was occupied. We were in "their" camp. They were rich, and snotty, and their guide asked if we would move (imagine?). We told them to shove it, so they literally pitched camp 20 yards from ours, where there were hundreds of other places to camp, all over the national forest. I let my ****** off akita bark at them for 2 hours while they stumbled around in the dark with their cool green flashlights, trying to figure out where to put their horses and wall tents in the rain. We laughed as they chopped down and burned **** fir in their wall tents, while our wall of red fir kept us toasty our our camp fire - we sleep in cheap campers and 3 season tents wrapped in tarps in case in rains or snows. They went into town the second day and all bought $300 deer tags, so they could hunt ONE DAY! Needless to say, they harvested no deer, no elk, and were rained on the whole time - all the while they could see our 'head' tree with four elk and seven deer all hanging from our numerous meat poles.
I used to be interested in hunting. Finally I realized that no hunter wants even more hunters out there. So I gave it up as a bad idea. But I have relatives who hunt, none near home, and I assure you, they are quite ordinary people.