MarkV
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Hi all, I am wondering if anyone has any experience with how to handle damage done by a logger. Here is the story. My MIL, late 80's, has a nice tract of 120 acres that we pretty much manage these days. An adjoining property was just logged and the loggers remove about 400' of her fence and used a trail on her property to skid trees without permission. Besides the damaged fence some of their left overs were pushed on to the property, a culvert crushed, the trail damaged and piles of tree tops left on their side leaning against the remain sections of our fence line.
We have contacted the owner of the property, another senior lady, and told her of the damage. Also let her know we expected to have our property restored to what it was in a timely way. It seems the loggers also dropped a tree on her barn and another on a well house so she is none to happy either. I have photographed everything for a record and we have started a log of conversations in case they are needed. We also have the state forester coming out to take a look, although they do not get involved in private contract disputes. They do keep a list of preferred contractors though as a public service.
It is a wait and see situation at the moment but I thought I would bounce it around here to see if anyone thought I was missing anything. Hopefully the logging company will respond with repairs and that will be fine by us. If not though, what do you think the next step should be?
MarkV
We have contacted the owner of the property, another senior lady, and told her of the damage. Also let her know we expected to have our property restored to what it was in a timely way. It seems the loggers also dropped a tree on her barn and another on a well house so she is none to happy either. I have photographed everything for a record and we have started a log of conversations in case they are needed. We also have the state forester coming out to take a look, although they do not get involved in private contract disputes. They do keep a list of preferred contractors though as a public service.
It is a wait and see situation at the moment but I thought I would bounce it around here to see if anyone thought I was missing anything. Hopefully the logging company will respond with repairs and that will be fine by us. If not though, what do you think the next step should be?
MarkV