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[QUOTE="oldguy, post: 1273641, member: 16965"] Ol89er, similar story here. 20 years ago I bought 4 acres to build on and the first time I walked the lot I noticed a well worn path across it obviously heavily used by horseriders to get from a large subdivision to the trail network in the state forest. As soon as we started building many riders stopped and asked about permission which I readily gave out- the alternate route was to stay on pavement and go up a steep blind hill. I also explained to each rider asking permission that I had planted about 900 pine seedlings and asked that they stay on the present trail as I had not planted any on it. Soon I got around to planting grass and covered large areas with straw and the riders were very good about keeping to the 15 foot strip I left until one afternnon when I got home from work. It had rained all morning and the newly seeded area was all pockmarked with hoof holes and the straw was all pushed around. I repaired what I could and about an hour later I noticed a group returning from the state trails so I went outside. This was a group of 6 women riders and they were all riding side by side across the newly seeded area and of course sinking in about 6 inches. I stopped them at the fenceline and asked why they were off the trail which they replied becuse it was to rough. They were not happy when I told them they would find the road much smoother and in the future they could use that and not my yard. About 30 minutes later one of their husbands came over and told me they would continue using my trail because through eminent domain they had the right since they had used that trail for over 10 years. I corrected him and informed him I would not give them permision and had not given it to them in the past but I would give them a tresspassing ticket if they ever came on my property again. He was about to continue when I opened the garage to let him see my squad parked inside. I never did have to issue a ticket but I stopped cutting the path through my fence line and eventually it got so thick that horse traffic all but ceased on my property. The snowmobilers were an entirely different problem. None asked permission just assumed since we had a dirtbike track on the property that they were welcome. I didn't have a problem with them cutting through until a group decided to bust drifts all through the area where my pine seedlings were growing. I stopped them also and told them they could not ride in that area because of the trees and if they stayed on the trail they could use the path. When one said they were not sure where I meant I told him to bring me 10 fence posts and I would mark the safe path and they could use 10 feet either side of the posts. He told me they wouldn't but any posts and if I wanted it marked I should buy them. I don't know how it happened but before they returned from their ride some fenceposts did appear out of nowhere and they completely shut down the trail at each end of my property [/QUOTE]
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