RE: Do you get along with neighboring landowners?
Well right now it's not a concern. I tell you though, I've had them both ways and every place in between the Good, The Bad and the down right UGLY. My best advice is to make contact early and just say hello. Tell them who you are and where you'll be. Depending on the meeting depends a lot on which of the above options I'd choose. With many years of experience and having seen all sorts of things, my advice would be NOT to jump in bed with anyone right away no matter how they seem. Take baby steps in the beginning. If they enquire about hunting or trailing I'd defer until a later date if I could. On tracking in the beginning I'd make it a "give me a call". That might seem unfriendly to some but it's harder to get out of a bad situation than it is to get in it. I don't care if they have 1000 acres and you only have a hundred. Sometimes it's simply best to keep them separate. That's so probably most of the time to be honest. There are more bad stories than good. After you've had a chance to stop and say hello a couple more times and see how well they can follow the boundries/rules... you could loosen up. The biggest problems are usually people that have always considered YOUR place their woods until you showed up. They get offended that you don't honor their 20 years of traspassing. Even the best of situations can be bad when people have different ideas about things like hunting someone elses stand etc.