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My family's property in rural MA is only about a dozen acres of forest, and it's a sliver of a much larger maybe 4000 acre forest. Nobody who owns part of the forest has signs up, much less fences through the woods to stop people from traveling through. It's pretty much always been open land to roam and enjoy and nobody ever saw anybody in there anyway.
But then the shit started around 2016. We started finding hunting stands illegally installed on the property and promptly removed them. Then the dirtbikers stated cutting a road through and we, and most of our neighbors, had to start putting signs up.
For decades horses, walkers, skiers, etc. would travel through and enjoy the woods and nobody ever knew but at a certain point people just started to act like they own the place, fire bullets as they please on private land and chop trees down so they can LARP through on their machines. FUCK THAT, we started putting signs up and all they did was deface them and cause more damage in retaliation.
Sad times when spoiled brats ruin it for all of us.