strum456
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Although I have never personally had a need to do this, I understand that it is permissible to cut down timber for firewood on PA state game lands. Is there some possibility that your land is being mistaken for game lands?
I think we should stick to the original topic about land rights and timber harvesting.
Sorry........ but this thread could quickly get derailed.
Although I have never personally had a need to do this, I understand that it is permissible to cut down timber for firewood on PA state game lands. Is there some possibility that your land is being mistaken for game lands?
Newberry i understand what you are saying and i live in one of them area's myself, but if you don't stop and take your land back you will loose all controll of your property. these people you are dealing with are going to take advantage of you as long as you let them. i have had to take people i was raised up with went to school with and so on to court for trespassing sence we did this we have not had any problem. you just got to let them know you will not be run over. if you don't do this just sign the deed over to them because they will ruien your rods and everything else.There shouldn't be. Around here all game lands are posted, mapped, and you have to get a special license to hunt on them.
I'm in NE Mississippi. In dealing with some of the locals I'm not sure if they could understand the concept of property rights. I've been treated by some with the attitude "What's yours is ours, but what's ours is not yours".
As I wrote, my wife, the Mississippi lawyer, said it's common around here. However even the mention of the Mississippi state education level in the US (recently rated 48th, but I think they are trying for 50th) gets a loud fight that they are not uneducated, they just aren't educated.
But again, one of the things I'm upset about is the way they have made ravines in this red clay so deep they have to start going around, and making more ravines. My lawyer says she doesn't think that they realize they are messing up my land, but there are places now impassable to my tractor which were previously passable.
And being the newbie on the block I don't want to aggravate. You get some of these "good 'ol boys" aggravated and they get a little off their meds and it's "Deliverance" (the movie) time. They will be sorry later but that's after the damage was done. Plus they are usually drinking buddies with the local sheriff, in a DRY county.
What's the practice in your area?