[farmfriend]

I talked with my young nephew from NV who didn't like the "Sage Brush Rebellion" because he didn't like ranchers who ran him off from his favorite fishing hole on their land. He wanted the land made public so he could trespass without care or concern. No amount of logical explanation about the ranchers liability from his trespass made any difference since it interfered with his weekend "recreation" that he viewed as a much more important "Constitutional Freedom," as he referred to it, than any rights or responsibilities of said rancher.

Sounds like something right out of Carry_Okie's book.

[SierraWasp]

Nope! My nephew and I had this out way back in 1995, five years before I ever heard of my good friend Carry_Okie and his phenomenal memorialization of rational expectations and making lemonaid out of a watershed of lemons in his beautiful book!

Good to see someone finally alive and functioning on this site tonight, just about the time I gotta leave. It's been dead here.

[Citizen Tom Paine]

The tresspass situation is something that a lot of persons don't know about. In New York state, the land owner is liable for any injury which occurs on his property. You may have legally posted the land, and if a tresspasser comes on it, say with an ATY, overturns and is injured, the land owner can be liable.

If the tresspasser is injured because of an "unsafe condition" on the land, the land owner is not only liable, but subject to penalities. What might such an unsafe condition be? How about the ATV driver running into a barbed wire fence? One then may have to convince a jury that one was not negligent because he had a fence to keep the cows in. Most city dewllers have no concept of what is required to operate a farm.