When I lived in Washington State, my 12 acres of land and house backed up to a 1000 acre State forest land. There was an old logging road there blocked by a locked gate. People were constantly breaking the lock on the gate and driving back into the 1000 acres. One man had a trailer back there where he kept mean dogs tethered as protection. The state DNR would do nothing to keep these intruders out.
From time to time, we’d hear gun shots back there at midnight. No Sheriff’s deputy would go back to investigate, nor did I blame them. We were moving to another state, and my husband’s tools were stolen from a detached garage the night he left. That and a can of “gas”. Nobody would investigate, even when I pointed out that the “gas” was really diesel, and a car was left disabled on the logging road a short distance from the gate. They just gave me a report number for the insurance company claim.
My house and land were beautiful and ethereal, but I was glad to move. My house eventually was sold to the State for a ranger station — the fanciest ranger station in the whole USA. I venture no other ranger station has such an elegent (or expensive) chandelier in the entry hall!
Thanks for the story. Law and order in the western states has really slid, hasn’t it. How sad.
I bet it 'got lost' and is in some gummint employee's hall now.
I would have taken the chandelier :- )
It is against Federal law to block exit gates from federal lands.
“My house and land were beautiful and ethereal, but I was glad to move.”
That is a wonderfully melancholy sentence.
.... the fanciest ranger station in the whole USA.
Maybe, maybe not!
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