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I used to be driving across the cape in Stockton Springs just lately and was struck by the variety of “posted: no trespassing, no looking, no fishing, trespassers shall be prosecuted” indicators. Now this was not the primary time I’ve seen these obnoxious yellow indicators. It appears they’re the latest and hottest ornament on just lately bought parcels everywhere in the state.
If somebody is without doubt one of the new arrivals to our lovely state, I ask: Did they ever marvel why all that land they simply purchased was not posted? Now don’t get me flawed, it’s their property and so they have each proper to put up it. However what are they attempting to guard? If individuals have entered their property and performed injury or stolen non-public property, I can perceive their angst and though it nonetheless would make me unhappy to not be allowed on a chunk of property that I’ll have hunted, hiked or fished on for many of my life, I might perceive their response to that sort of insult.
Maine is a really particular place. We now have right here on this state many locations of pure magnificence. We now have lots of of lakes and ponds and trout streams to fish or recreate. We now have miles of lovely climbing trails. Many of the land that was available to everybody was on privately owned property, a lot of it held by the paper corporations. However some was additionally held by particular person landowners who had the monetary potential to purchase their cabin within the woods. Many, myself included, have at all times appreciated and revered that land that didn’t belong to them.
That freedom to roam this nice state is without doubt one of the many issues that makes Maine so very particular. I might hope that sooner or later we’ll nonetheless be capable to roam by way of this lovely state roughly unposted.
Leo H. Mazerall Jr.
Stockton Springs