The way i llok at it is this way. On public land ,if you leave your stand up all year it is considered abandon. I believe it even says that you are not allowed to leave your stand up all year on public land. I think they should be like traps. They have to be removed from trees certain times of the year along with have your name and address placed on them. Again if you leave a stand up and don't take it home with you after the hunt,I consider that abandonment. You wouldn't leave your gun or gps or other hunting equipment in the woods over night would you? You can't claim an area on public land as your own as many hunters who archery hunt do. Beside that. you people do the work for other hunters by showing us where the deer are by where your tree stand is.Thank you for the work to help me get a deer.

If it is stolen off of public land,you better be able to prove you didn't abandon it. Like when was the last time you used your stand and why did you leave it there on public property?
I don't think anything can be done really if stolen off public property and no one was around to claim it.