[fintstone]

Originally Posted by BlueWing

Used to be that way fintstone, but the properties in the surrounding area have all been bought up by NYCitiots and the sound of rounds going off they call the Forest Ranger. Because of such and invasion of strangers and citiots here the Rangers were called here so often one has now rented full time one of the AirBnBs next to my favorite trout stream.

I even need to carry a permission slip to go there so not to get arrested. Oh it has changed so much.

Terry

Really? that is too bad.

I have a house on 10 acres in a relatively rural area, but in a subdivision of nice homes...all on 10 acres or more. Mostly wooded except near the homes...with lots of deer and turkeys, etc.. Apparently someone had complained about shooting/guns and went to the HOA to stop it...so the HOA passed a rule specifically allowing shooting and hunting. Personally, it seems an area better suited to bow hunting...but I think that if I stay here long enough, I will put in a small shooting range (in the woods behind my house).

I still own a small piece of property where I grew up. Our house (shack) was virtually surrounded by national forest Appalachians. It was nice because the national forest area was almost like our own property because no one used it except us. Now there are a lot of restrictions (both for the national forest and private property) as city folks who live many miles (if not hundreds of miles away) keep making designations that effect use...such as watershed or old growth forest (no building, agriculture or harvesting trees allowed on your own property). Maybe some of that silliness will end under Trump...but for now, the area seems a magnet for big city folks who flee to escape other places and then try to make that area the same s the one they left. They are able to have a great deal of influence because they are much wealthier and much more activist than locals.