RE: How to deal with trespassers?
I read some of the other posts from you "wildlifepopulationcontrolexpert". Your kid is going to be turning 1 you say. Let's jump about 15 or 20 years into the future. You've invested alot into your child and the kid has turned out to be the JOY OF YOUR LIFE. You're so proud, you love that kid like you beleive no one has ever loved another. Now, your kid is out riding around with buddies on ATV's and they do like plenty of young kids do, make a poor decision. They ignore a posted sign, go around a gate and cut thru someones private property. Just taking a short cut or something - not intending any harm. BOOM! It's YOUR KIDS HEAD laying on the trail as the lifeless body falls off of the ATV which continues on to crash into a tree, for the buddies to see and remember for the rest of their lifes.
But that's alright, in your mind you know your kid deserved it. Heck, go on over and apologize to the landowners, clean up the mess and restring the barbed wire for him, too. It's only the right thing to do. After all, it was your kids head that damaged his death trap, right? That's criminal damage to property - if your kids a minor, you are the responsible party.