In 1980 our family bought 20 acres of hunting land near Bemidji. The next year, a family bought the adjacent 20, built a house, and is still there. Both properties are sise to side about a half mile in from the highway and are acessed by a township road which ends where the two properties meet. From the end of this road, an old dirt logging trail continues, running between our two property lines, ending at an old gravel pit past our propert on public land. Over the years, this road has been used by countless underage drinkers on their way to party back at the gravel pit. It's also been used as a public garbage dump, as well as numerous other destructive activities. After many years of this, our neighbor and us decided to close the trail and post it. Public documents show the road ending at our property line, and the plat book shows the two properties adjacent to each other. It has never been maintained and there is no reference to it in either of the abstracts. Which presents another issue. If it is in fact private property, and someone is injured while going back there, can we be sued. Not something we wanted to find out. So we wrote the township a letter stating our intent, giving full access to law enforcement if they needed to use it. Now the towship claims the trail is public property and there has been an ongoing battle for the last five years. And the real kicker, is now last week they came out with the game warden and the sherrif, took down the signs and gate, and issued our neighbor a $130 ticket for obstructing a public roadway. Now i understand that not everyone is lucky enough to own their own hunting land, and the purpose is not to keep other sportsmen out. If a father and son asked us permission to use the road to do some hunting, they would be more than welcome. We just wanna have controll over some of the damage being done back there, and over the whole liability thing. I'd love to be able to hire Johnny Cochrain, but we're just average people who don't have a ton of money set aside for something like this. Is there anything we can do or is this a situation where the bully with the biggest muscles wins.
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Building starting next spring so maybe next Sept? There's electric on site so I'll pull a camper out there next summer and live there. I'll shower at the gym, work or in the nearby lake 😆
There were some leaves changing when I was at the cabin a couple weeks ago. Headed back up on Monday, it'll be interesting to see how much more.
The ferns were also starting to get brown.
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We had 45 in Little Falls when I woke up this morning. Been seeing leaves turn yellow for a couple weeks now. Just got done with a neighborhood walkabout and even some green leaves are letting loose and dropping.
Lakeshore was kind of out of my price range, less than desirable waterfront is 50k an acre minimum and nice lakeshore is 100k+ an acre. I got just under 7 acres up against state land out in the woods, building about a 1400 sq ft home and 24x36 garage. As maintenance free as possible, clover yard too. Can't be doing chores instead of pestering the walleye. I think we got frost last night
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Steve Bakken
In 1980 our family bought 20 acres of hunting land near Bemidji. The next year, a family bought the adjacent 20, built a house, and is still there. Both properties are sise to side about a half mile in from the highway and are acessed by a township road which ends where the two properties meet. From the end of this road, an old dirt logging trail continues, running between our two property lines, ending at an old gravel pit past our propert on public land. Over the years, this road has been used by countless underage drinkers on their way to party back at the gravel pit. It's also been used as a public garbage dump, as well as numerous other destructive activities. After many years of this, our neighbor and us decided to close the trail and post it. Public documents show the road ending at our property line, and the plat book shows the two properties adjacent to each other. It has never been maintained and there is no reference to it in either of the abstracts. Which presents another issue. If it is in fact private property, and someone is injured while going back there, can we be sued. Not something we wanted to find out. So we wrote the township a letter stating our intent, giving full access to law enforcement if they needed to use it. Now the towship claims the trail is public property and there has been an ongoing battle for the last five years. And the real kicker, is now last week they came out with the game warden and the sherrif, took down the signs and gate, and issued our neighbor a $130 ticket for obstructing a public roadway. Now i understand that not everyone is lucky enough to own their own hunting land, and the purpose is not to keep other sportsmen out. If a father and son asked us permission to use the road to do some hunting, they would be more than welcome. We just wanna have controll over some of the damage being done back there, and over the whole liability thing. I'd love to be able to hire Johnny Cochrain, but we're just average people who don't have a ton of money set aside for something like this. Is there anything we can do or is this a situation where the bully with the biggest muscles wins.
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