I mentioned the other day that there is an unwelcome and illegal hunting stand out in our woods, it seems fairly new and is expensive and elaborate. Ed Gulley climbed up there to check it out and he said the stand was padlocked around the tree with a bicycle chain. We will have to cut the chain with a hacksaw to get it down.

The ladder is steel and so is the stand, which had a cushion seat. There are electrical wires, presumably for battery-powered heaters. This will take some work but we are determined to remove it. We are happy to grant permission to hunters but they need to ask, and nobody asked about this one.

In the next few weeks we’ll figure out a way to get it down. There are many responsible and ethical hunters, and we always give them permission to hunt on our property. These hunters are not professional or ethical, and we’ll get that stand down.