Ken....many years ago my brother bought a remote mining claim up in Colorado. A lawyer told him if someone gets hurt on your property you could be sued, so he put up a gate. He found out pretty quick when hunting season came around locals had been hunting this land for years and they knocked down and/or vandalize his gate. I would think in the last 10 years the gate has been vandalized at least every other year. It's weird...some people just seem to not care about private property rights and ownership, it's like they think "
nobody is gonna stop me from doing what I've done for years". Here is a picture of his gate that we fix often. The lawyer says if it's not too much trouble leave the gate in place so if someone gets hurt we can at least say we had no trespass signs and a gate up that they disregarded.
