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Gating public land real concern

Mr. Hawley’s letter, “Taxpayers paid for road, bridge” is spot-on.

While I believe in private property rights, access to public land is becoming more and more limited.

Wayne Kruse in his Nov. 28 column states DNR gave landowners the right to install the gate on DNR right-of-way. Private landowners gating public land is definitely a concern, now more than ever.

The Department of Natural Resources may be right, legally, in defining this property as “trust land” but historic access should not be so easily denied. This is not the King’s Wood and DNR is not the Sheriff of Nottingham.

Robert Elliott

Arlington

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