[Talk-us] National Forest boundaries

[Mike Thompson]

On Tue, Jun 23, 2020 at 8:08 AM Bradley White <theangrytomato at gmail.com>
wrote:
>
> > Somewhat related, in the cases where an official FS road or trail
crosses private property, does the FS have an easement, or is it kind of an
informal arrangement?
>
> Best way to know for sure is ground survey, but generally USFS system
> roads & trails (also available for viewing using the USFS data extract
> tool) over private land are public easements. If a section of the
> system road/trail 'disappears' over a piece of land, it might not be
> open to the public. An on-the-ground survey is usually required in
> those cases.
Thanks again.  On the ground survey shows nothing more than an official
looking USFS TH sign/board.  There are no signs indicating one is crossing
private property, nor are there signs indicating one must stay on the
trail.  After about a half mile of hiking one does come to several of those
yellow property boundary signs. County level data does show the initial
part of the trail to be on private property.  Just curious as in other
cases landowners have posted "no trespassing" signs blocking trails.

Mike
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: <http://lists.openstreetmap.org/pipermail/talk-us/attachments/20200623/a4c53d6f/attachment.htm>