First off, it is less the hunters that cause me problems than it is the snowmobilers and dirtbikers. This has more to do with the damage that they cause more than anything else. Nothing like seeing places were they went though alfalfa fields while they were wet to make you not feel to found of people on your property in general.

Secondly, the law around here does not protect the landowner very well if injury was to befall the trespasser regardless of what level of permission they have. This land is not hunting ground or recreation ground. This ground is my job. When damage is done to my crops, my fences and my equipment, forgive me if I think it is ridiculous that I have to post ever 50-75 yards for legality's sake. When I drive into a drive and watch a truck go speeding across a field, don't tell me they don't know they are tresspassing because there wasn't a sign on the gate. People know but they choose to ignore.

As far as the tresspassers not having access to land, well, around here at least, that is not true because most of them have plenty of land but they have removed every fence line, tree, and plant up to the roads now so there is almost no wildlife. Than in turn, they plow their fields under in the fall as soon as they combines are done rolling and they wonder why they have no deer or wildlife in their fields...

There is almost ZERO public land open to hunting in this county. There are a couple of Soil Conservation areas that are off limits and than there is the Henepin Canal area that is public, I think some areas are huntable but I have never looked into it. We used to give permission to people who asked to small game hunt becasue it was not big deal, but with the state's law protecting landowners being nullified by that judge my family and I are more than a little alarmed at the ramifications of letting even one person on if that leaves us open to lawsuits by dozens. The way the law is written is so vague that it can be interpretted any way one would please. Signs or no signs.