No Trespassing Signs on Public Lands!!!!!!!

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There is federal law regarding this situation and the landowner could be sentenced to up to one year in jail and $1,000 fine. Under the Unlawful Inclosures Act 43 USC section 1061-66, If the citizen blocked from trying to use the public lands feels compelled, they can file a citizen affidavit with the US Attorney?s Office in the proper district, and the United States is required by law to file a civil suit against the landowner or the party creating the unlawful enclosure. It is nice to seek agreement and help from relevant law enforcement as the article indicates but they may not always be willing or fast to act ? the UIA, a Congressional Act, is another option. There is also federal regulation addressing signs specifically, 43 CFR 4140.1 (b)(7) (7), Interfering with lawful uses or users including obstructing free transit through or over public lands by force, threat, intimidation, signs, barrier or locked gates ? punishable by a $500 fine. In some cases there are also state laws such as hunter harassment but they are rarely used or enforced.

http://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?path=/prelim@title43/chapter25&edition=prelim
 
Thanks for posting this up.

I know a land owner that has jumped his sign 200 yards up the mountain from where it should be according to the boundary map. 200 yards might not seem like a long way, however, the larger bucks are always feeding on this strip of public land in the morning before they cross over to the land owners actual property line. I still hunt right up to his property line with maps on me in case their is a confrontation. Now I have even more reason to hunt where I do. Hope I see the landowner this coming fall...
 
This has happened to me and my son, we were in Kali hunting years ago and I know a little place where you can walk in behind some private land and hunt behind the ranch.
We'll they charge an trespass fee to access.
So when my son and I went to cross the fence and sign the had put up here came a truck and they raced right up to us and threatened us if we crossed the fence they would call the cops.
I said I have a map here that says this is BLM land and he told me straight out, you may be right but my brother in law is the Sheriff and if you cross it you will be in jail and won't get out until after the deer season is over.
I sent this into the Fish and Game and nothing happened to anyone. I went back up there a few years later and the sign is still up.
This was in unit 3B up in the North east corner of the state.
 
The law was made for diamond Mtn....perfect example of this issue. They even locked me and my wife in on a peice of BLM....they sat down the road watching...smiling.....i tossed the broken lock and the chain which was in about 10 pieces to them as i drove by...for some reason they were not smiling like they were when i pulled up to the gate :)

With that said there is alot more than 30% private ground up there with more than a little of the public walk in only to get around the private. Mostly mtn hiking.

It is at least 50% because they get about 1/2 the deer and elk tags
 
Had it happen to me too in NM, But it was a woven wire gate so I just took it apart and drove out. The look on their face was priceless.

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This is good to know--gives me something to fire back with. Seems like I run into someone every couple of years that tries to convince me I'm standing on their private ranch when the BLM chip in my GPS says otherwise. Probably the best money I've ever spent--when I show it to them it shuts them up quick every time, including a G&F officer that backed down once I showed him my "tracks".
 
They try to pull this crap on state trust funds lands as well and unless there has been a public hearing that closed all hunting, the can't keep anyone from hunting it.
 
I had a late muzzy tag in NE CA last year with lots of BLM interspersed with private. I called the local BLM office to inqire about public access on roads going through private to BLM lands, access points, etc. and was transferred to a BLM agent that told me where they had purchased easements through private for public access to BLM. He was very helpful! In one case BLM had purchased an easement and the landowners had posted the road as a private road, no trespassing. He wasn't to happy and went out there to have them remove their illegal sign. He said he actually issues citations to landowners who posted public property as private. In another case, the property owner had put locks on the gates on an access road that went through private to BLM to NF, and although apparently there was some court proceedings concerning this access, he contacted the landowner and they agreed to give tag holders access if you called them to arrange same. He even had surveys done to verify posted roads were not on private when on the very edge of BLM. The guy was awesome and it was great knowing you had the federal government behind you and only a phone call away if some landowner tried to bully you on BLM ground or on the public easements. I am thinking all BLM offices must have one of these access specialists that a hunter could call to inquire about public access to BLM lands, illegal signs, etc. when hunting out of state or in an unfamiliar area?

Horniac
 
>CWMU's post hundreds of acres of
>public land in the state
>of Utah.
Yes, but not illegally. And it's probably thousands, not hundreds.

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