@bobbimay Said
First the back story...
In 2013 I bought an old abandoned historic home on 15 acres...
After I moved in some of my male neighbors came to my door and asked if I would still allow hunting on my back property...not wanting to start a fight with my new neighbors I said yes...
Later that same summer when I was walking in my back forest I found out that I had 3 apple trees back there...and the "hunters" were sitting up there deer blinds just above the trees and killing the deer when they came to eat at the trees...
Sorry that isn't hunting that is ambushing and it is wrong...
so I posted no hunting signs on the first 10 acres of my property leaving the last 5 acres still open to hunting.....and wrote a letter to all my neighbors explaining why that property is now off limits...
Ok so I pissed of some but others were fine with it...
Now early last spring I decided to make a 10 foot horse path across my last 5 acres so to connect the horse paths from one neighbor to my other neighbor....not a big deal....
While the construction company was clearing all the dead fall from the area they came across 3 large mounds of rocks...when one of the workers dig into the mounds they found it contained human remains...
OK all stop....call out the sheriff let them do a investigation to find out if they were recent or older graves...
early summer the test came back dated between 1570 and 1620...It seems that I have found Native American burial mounds in my last 5 acres...
So I did some research and found out that the
Nottawaseppi Huron Band of the Potawatomi Indians had lived in this area at that time....so I called them and set up a meeting with their council..and asked if they would like the property to maintain the grave mounds...
I then set up a property trust and gave them 5 acres of my land...with the provisions that it always stayed a burial grounds and if that were to change the land would revert back to me....
the tribe came in and put up a tall fence around the area and then cleared all the dead fall and found that there were not 3 but 12 burial mounds on that property....Ok no problem...
OMG you would have thought I had killed all my neighbors first born...they came at me with such viciousness and hatred .." how dare you fence off 'our' hunting grounds"..." you said we could hunt there why are you taking that back".... one has even stated he is going to sue me for the use of MY land to hunt...
This area of land is in the middle of a 75 acre wooded area...
the stupidity of some people will always amaze me....
obviously, you can't please everybody.
you, at least, you attempt to post warning signs on your property for hunting.
you respect the burial grounds on your property.
i have admit that your neighbors aren't that consider with you. i would put fence your entire property, forget everybody. you put " no trespassers " signs up, and let them go around you and your property.
i was in position, if i wastoo pissed off with them. i would get advice legal and maybe talk the sheriff or chief of police get advice. even town meeting with your town might help to with this group. if your neighbors are in the same boat.
i am that kind of person looking for alternatives to this workout, i was brought up this way.
right now, this only solution, i could come up for you. i think this situation probably get out of hand for you.
be careful!