Mike Hartigan
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This thread will probably get mixed responses but this past weekend a friend and I went out for a bushwhack on one of my favorite northern Vt. mountains. This ridgeline route winds up through beautiful open hardwoods into a birch glen and onto open ledges with phenomenal views. The route tops out just over 3000' on what I have always thought to be state land, WRONG. As we approached 2000' a line of posted signs came in from the south and continued well up and over the top of the ridge. The name on the sign was from a completely different township than the above described area. I am aware that it is a free country and people have right to do with their land as they please but this posting seemed excessive. As a landowner myself I dont believe it to be correct to post land you do not live on and even then I am opposed to posting on a whole. After all we are only renting this planet from our children. I do hope this posting is just an anti-hunter trying to keep hunters out and I will be calling this person to find out but regardless the signs are a eyesore upon a once wild place and as in all of Vermont public access is becoming a joke. Prime examples are the Black falls region, a recent state purchase for which public easements were not secured which in itself promotes posting by adjacent landowners, and the Champion land deals in the Northeast Kingdom in which campowners are being forced out. Tough issues with unclear answers surround access but I am deeply saddened by this loss. I would like to know how others feel about this.