Thread: Farmer lying about paper road?

Originally Posted by whanahuia

Yep. have to agree with Tim here.

Im a farmer and also someone who values public land access. The big issue of conflict for me that I see, is the lack of regulations and penalties for offences associated with mistreatment of public access.
If There was real consequence for mis use then the situation would be far better. Hell try being a rural landowner and getting a police officer on site in less than 2 hours on a good day. let alone at 2 am. Those of us with public land boundaries are put in shitty positions often enough that we just decide to minimise our risk in the most efficient way possible, and if that means someone contacts you who you dont know looking for access, then its most likely going to be a no.

I completely understand and it's niave to think public land nearby makes any difference at all. We have no public land around us except a lake. We still get poached of the road (a real road) we are well aware of the lack of concern by the police but have found saying spotlighting of houses is occurring usually helps. Although our best catch was someone poaching off the lake that we saw from the farm so took photos and video called the cops, drove to the boat jetty and took the keys out of ignition while they where loading up the boat with 2 fallow and a pig in the back.

I think you would find most hunters support better punishments for poachers and hate them as they are a huge part of the reason people struggle with issues like this. It's a joke those guys we caught in film got a trespass notice and that was it no seizure of boat, firearms, etc. But that's a seperate issue.

Originally Posted by Stocky

I think you would find most hunters support better punishments for poachers and hate them as they are a huge part of the reason people struggle with issues like this. It's a joke those guys we caught in film got a trespass notice and that was it no seizure of boat, firearms, etc. But that's a seperate issue.

But it’s not a separate issue mate. It’s the other side of the same coin.

Farmers see poachers, trespassers, vandals and thieves getting fuck all comeuppance, so what do you think that does to their attitudes?

We end up in a situation where there is no enforcement of law on either side of the problem, and some individuals decide to mete out their own forms of bush justice.