G-Spot,

I'm sure that you're the kind of guy who truly does appreciate nature and respects the land when using it. I am a riverfront land owner and if everybody was like you and really did respect the land I would open it back up for public use. Let me tell you that unfortunately, some of the bad apples have to ruin it for the rest of us. We used to have a "come in and out as you please" policy that has since been revoked due to the extremed disrespect that some people have for private land as well as public land.

Look at all of the garbage that you see at public access points. Now picture all of that garbage in your front yard, a couple of your evergreen trees cut down, vandalism, having your driveway torn up and having nobody do or pay for the road maintaence, threats made to you by tresspassers because you try to fish on your own land, hunters that shoot anything and everything that moves, and having your trout pond full of irreplaceable wild cutthroat fished out. Unfortunately, G-Spot, these are the kind of things that you have to deal with when you are a riverfront landowner so please understand that it may not be fair for people like you when private lands are closed, but the fact is that access is often closed for underlying reasons and not every landowner is going to greet you with a 12 gauge, but when a sign says "NO TRESSPASSING" you may not like it, but you take it upon yourself to risk the hostility of the landowner. I would never shoot at a tresspasser just because they were there, that's stupid and people that pull that crap should get a chance to think about it in the state pen.



[This message has been edited by SAUKit2em (edited 02-12-2001).]