PorkchopFunny t1_j20shn8 wrote
My parents could have written this post word for word. Unfortunately, within the past 15 years they've had to post the land. The farm has been in my dad's family for 200+ years. Gates opened, fences cut and squashed, a hay field used for off-roading, unsafe hunters, you name it. It's really sad. Long-time neighbors know they're always welcome (and always ask), but unfortunately use of open land is becoming more and more abused.
NonDeterministiK t1_j22ah7k wrote
It is sad because who wants to see Vermont become a NO TRESPASSING type of state. Who wants cellular cameras watching them when taking a walk in the woods? And the reasons - social change, lack of courtesy, incomers without knowledge of traditions, but also old-timers who feel they have inherited rights, or perhaps there is just a general degradation of human decency? On my rural street not a single property is posted including many farms with hundreds of acres. A neighbor recently got on gamecam another (fairly new) neighbor cutting a christmas tree on his land. Solved by polite request not to do it again without asking. I'm pretty certain if somebody posted the neighbors would all ask "why did you post?" so it's not the norm where I am.
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