Re: Improving Off-road Compliance

Someone has to be paying the taxes. They're usually the one's to start with. My family rehabs old homesteads. When looking to acquire a piece of property, it's the first place we start.

The problem with fencing is that it puts an unreasonable burden on the land owner. -and when it gets ripped out...

Part of my land is un-fence-able because part of my property occupies a wash.

No trespassing signs are also ugly. I don't want to come home to a bunch of ugly spooky signs. I have no problem with any visitors except ORVs and only because they're loud and destructive. -Not the people, the machine.

-Yes, hikers and equestrians can be problematic but it takes a lot of effort on the part of the hikers or equestrians to wreak the same level of damage as one ORV on a rampage or several careless ORVers.

Hikers and equestrians have no problem seeing or hearing me because they don't have a loud engine and aren't wearing a bunch of space gear. So if I have a problem, on my land, I can fix it. By the time I catch the ORVers attention -if I can catch their attention, the harm's already been done.

-I really appreciate the opportunity to have this open dialogue.