Wild Chrome, my family has had this piece of property for about 60 years. We reall yhaven't had much trouble in that itme. About 20-25 years ago someone ripped out the gate and came down and took a lot of lumber but since then no problems at all. Hopefully this is the last for a long time.

As far as the gun goes, I would never display one in that type of situation unless I felt very threatened. It just woul dhave been nice to have for "just in case" situations.

The Cowlitz County Sheriff's office has been great to deal with. As far up the river as we are they were there in a very reasonable amount of time on a day that they were extremly busy with an armed robbery and a shooting.

I am just thankful that I happened to want to go for a drive on Sat. and was able to find these dirt bags still there. From appearences they were planning on spending the summer. I am going up tomorrow to check on what might actually be missing as far as towels and sheets and just everyday stuff.

I can tell you what I wanted a drink in the worst way that afternoon and nothing to drink since these people drank everything down to the last soda pop.

Hopefully them being in jail will save someone elses stuff from being tampered with.