On Tue, Sep 1, 2020 at 12:52 AM Bradley White <theangrytom...@gmail.com> wrote:
> If you drive into a checkerboard >> area of private/public land, there are no Forest Service signs at the >> limits of private land. >> > > In my neck of the woods, USFS owned land is signed fairly frequently with > small yellow property markers at the boundaries. > In repeated discussions about the large government-owned mixed-public-use land areas in the US, people have argued repeatedly that the boundaries are unverifiable. We've shown references like https://www.fs.usda.gov/detail/gwj/specialplaces/?cid=stelprdb5276999 indicating that the boundaries are indeed marked, and how they are marked. Note that that reference distinguishes the proclaimed boundary - the large region in which the Congress has authorized the National Forest to exist - from the actual forest land. Maps commonly show proclaimed national forest boundaries. However, all land > within these boundaries is not national forest land; some is privately > owned. The user is cautioned to comply with state law and owner's rules > when entering onto private land. This has failed to satisfy. The same individuals continue to contend, each time the topic comes around, that the boundaries are unverifiable, and to cling to that contention in the face of this evidence. In a previous round, one of the people actually advanced the argument that only each individual sign, blaze, stake or cairn is verifiable, and that the line that they mark is not verifiable and ought not to be mapped. This behaviour convinced me long ago that there is a certain contingent here, almost entirely comprising people who've never set foot in a National Forest, who ardently wish to keep US National Forests and similar lands (e.g., the zoo of New York State public-access areas, the Pennsylvania State Game Lands, and even our State Parks) off the map, for reasons that don't touch on verifiability, but throw verifiability into the pot in an effort to make a stronger case. -- 73 de ke9tv/2, Kevin
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