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Ocotillo Wells land owner fed up with off-roaders
Ahh, another soapbox! Several items: First full disclosure; I ride Ocotillo Wells as well as have land there. Second It is not ten thousand visitors. On a good weekend there are over 200,000 visitors to the OWSVRA! When we were kicked out of AB State park in the 70’s the OWSVRA was too small now the traffic can be downright dangerous. Let’s take back Anza Borrego! Also, I have also personally chatted with Alan on several occasions. He seemed like a reasonable guy. But, In a golf community there are golf balls, in an off road one there are bikes and buggies. Blocking watercourses, making booby traps (I have encountered), Barbed wire (cattle?), and firing at a vehicle when it poses no threat to you is a recipe for everyone to lose. (Anyone that cannot put a hole in a bike tire at point blank range should NOT be holding a loaded gun). Aditionally the posting by Banjojacko is not quite correct. But, just because you hold title to land does not mean you get to do whatever you want to do with it. There could be an Implied easement for adjoining landowners, there could be a case for an implied easement for the public on a specific path through or around, but a recreational prescriptive easement that would cover the entire property is not something that is real or possible. Additionally an easement is not recorded on "The Deed" it is "deeded" and recorded once thus many landowners do not know that an easement exists if their title company did not do a proper search or they bought the land with a proper title search. Easement talk aside there are ways to be a good neighbor and ways to not be one in rural America. There are several parcels that have accommodated the off road traffic by providing routes along or through their property while fencing off the bulk of it. Everyone wins. Land owners, if you do not have a complete chain of title back to 1850 AND the permission of all parcel owners further than you from a public road DO NOT fence to the edges of your property. (Easement legal action is >$80k a pop.) Everyone except the Lawyer loses… Also if you are riding through or around someone’s private property show some respect! Those that did not in Riverside County got banned from the county completely! The SVRA and the BLM land is the riding area! Yes that parcel is a great piece of land for riding. How about us off roaders do as the Nature Conservancy does (not the STEALarra club) and buy it and grant a permanent public easement for riding. Everyone wins. Off roaders, stop whining and get active. Buy some land and spend some of that beer money on a membership to an off road organization.— May 15, 2009 6:07 p.m.