WE deny access thru our land, all completely legal in our state, Why? tax forfeit lands fall under a different legal status than land the county has bought and paid for to get public rights to.
If someone (and they have) want to paddle down to the land, we welcome them and have even allowed them to pump from our well, but when someone cuts a chain on our gate, drives 3/4 of a mile in, shoots a deer in July, and then leaves rubbish and never pulls the gate closed, they are asking for full prosecution.
States are all different. Land laws differ from county to county, but in our state and county, what we do is 100% legal and ethical.
Well, at least you aren't as bad as some I've seen who blocked the public from their own land and then created their own private public hunting preserve.
Or maybe I'm wrong. Do you hunt on the public land you deny the public access to while bragging about prosecuting those who trespass on yours?
Would you consider allowing access to those who were responsible enough to ask permission.
No, we do not, because there is no easy way to get there, and we are not going to be cutting in roads for people to get over there. However, like I said, if someone comes down the river, and we meet them, we are more than hospitable. According to the state law, we do not have to provide access to that land. IF the land were reclassified as wildlife management area, or were bought by someone else, and we did not match the offer, then we would be forced by law to grant an easement and allow them to build a road. As I said, tax forfeit land is a odd duck via land management. The property was all one place, but it was deeded as separate parcels, by buying the two which blocked off the third and forth, we effectively created a bit of land in legal limbo. Its all legal and common. There is enough land around that this is a small bit and not a problem. Minnesota has tens of thousand of parcels which are available cheap for hunting or which are state owned forests or WMA's,
