newbury
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I've a ROW on my land about 100 yards behind my house in NE Mississippi. My land on either side of it was logged in August 2011. Since then I have been bothered by ATV drivers using the ROW as a race track. Usually I'd step out on the porch and fire the 12 gauge and it would diminish for several days. The main problem is they have destroyed the vegetative cover and I'm getting some deep gullies.
But sometimes it's been guys driving up, then driving on to my land and "harvesting" some of the leftover downed timber that the lumber company left. Presumably for firewood. I'm not talking stems and twigs, I'm talking 18" diameter wood. Again the ruts grow deeper.
When I complained to my wife (a Mississippi lawyer) she told me it was ok for people to go and harvest downed timber. I had never heard of this practice. But since I have a little sawmill I'm wondering if this practice is generally acceptable.
Note in Mississippi
What's the practice in your area?
But sometimes it's been guys driving up, then driving on to my land and "harvesting" some of the leftover downed timber that the lumber company left. Presumably for firewood. I'm not talking stems and twigs, I'm talking 18" diameter wood. Again the ruts grow deeper.
When I complained to my wife (a Mississippi lawyer) she told me it was ok for people to go and harvest downed timber. I had never heard of this practice. But since I have a little sawmill I'm wondering if this practice is generally acceptable.
Note in Mississippi
Mississippi has a law on the books that automatically posts all private land as off limits to trespassers or others without permission to be on someones property.
What's the practice in your area?