Private Land: Trespassers

By: Connor Hermesch

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Landowner standing in agriculture field that he inherited.

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The source text explores a comprehensive, three-tiered strategy designed to help landowners protect private hunting property from unauthorized access and trespasser damage. The first defensive layer stresses establishing a strong legal foundation through clear communication, recommending strategic sign placement (often high up for legal evidence) and utilizing permanent alternatives like the state-specific purple paint law. The second, crucial layer shifts focus to the human element, advocating that owners build robust relationships with neighbors, which creates an active community surveillance network superior to relying solely on technology. Finally, the third tier suggests installing organic physical barriers, recommending both fast-growing annuals for quick visual screens and permanent, dense plant species such as Eastern red cedar or thorny shrubs that function as long-term habitat improvement and active deterrents. This layered approach ensures that protecting the land's security and investment ultimately encourages the owner to become a more effective ecological steward.

Published: January 19, 2021

Owning your own piece of hunting land is one of the best things you can do for yourself and your family. It gives you the freedom to cultivate the land anyway you want, as well as regulate it how you please. However, owning and maintaining a pristine piece of land can have its setbacks. One of those major setbacks being trespassers, or people hunting your land without your permission! That is both illegal to do and can be detrimental to the land you worked so hard for. Here are some innovative easy to keep unwanted people off your private land!

Signs, Everywhere

No trespassing signs are the first thing people think about when planning how to keep people off their property. Signs provide a clear message to whoever is reading it, that should be easy to understand. Do not let trespassers have the chance to say that they didn’t see your signs. Make sure they are clearly visible, removing any brush or foliage that can get in the way over time. Other tips for signs:

Put them out of reach of trespassers. Making the signs too high to take down gives you the piece of nmind that no one can simply remove your sign
Put signs on every entrance and exit. As well as signs going along any border or fencing on your hunting land.

Create a Community

Your neighbors and the people with adjacent property lines can be one of your biggest assets when it comes to stopping trespassers.Making it clear to everyone around you that your land is private both lets your neighbors know to stay off without permissions. As well as puts more sets of eyes on your properties. The better relationship you have with those around you gives you a better chance of catching trespassers!

Barriers, Borders and Fences For Your Private Land

Planting natural border around your hunting property is a great way to improve its privacy. Through planting a combination of trees, shrubs, and grasses you will be able to create an organic border for your property. Which will also add to the overall foliage and coverage for the wild,life on your property. If you are looking for a fast privacy solution’s, grasses like corn are perfect. They grow tall quickly over a span of just a few moths.

A more permanent solution would be the planting of trees. While time consuming, planting trees as privacy is a great way top improve your land overall. The best trees to use as a border will depend on the region you like in. For some areas, pine trees would be the ultimate option. While in others, you may not have that tree available to you.

Private Land: Trespassers

Signs, Everywhere

Create a Community

Barriers, Borders and Fences For Your Private Land

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