A spot I hunt in Colorado, the opposite happens. There is a jeep trail that dead ends at a gate and posted signs. ONX shows it as private property. The jeep trail continues up the mountain for several miles into a large portion of NF and designated wilderness.
I can box around the road on foot to get way back into huntable public land. Several people would do this, but overall the pressure was relatively light, and the hunting was good. However, the last several years, people are just driving around the gate with ATVs, and driving deep into the NF and stopping at the wilderness boundary. CPW has even posted the Jeep trail but people just go around it. In the last two years, there’s now trashed camp sites, lots more hunters, and the elk are not in this area like they were just a few years prior.
I’m not for someone posting public land if it’s truly public, but people in general have little respect for things that don’t belong to them. I hate landlocked public land, but I’m not going to break the law, trespass on someone’s land, or tear up their gates and road, thinking that I am somehow entitled to it.
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