I've built a great relationship with a land-owner who has 250 acres near me. Took a bear there earlier, had a few others come in, and there are a ton of deer on the property. Oh yeah, there are elk there too from time to time.

I have written permission to hunt this landlocked piece of property, and it is accessed through an easement of an adjacent property owner. Well, I ran into one trespasser on the property a few weeks back, and a few days later I ran into a neighbor who said he had upset the adjacent property owner by cutting a trail across their property to access the piece of property I have permission for so they could hunt illegally. Cool folks.

Apparently one of these two guys, or a friend of theirs, told the property owner who's land I need to cross that I shot my bear on their property, not my landowner's property. Nice!

I gave my landowner all of the specifics, even going down to providing exactly where the bear was shot, and expired, including GPS coordinates. Pictures taken of the bear have those coordinates imbedded in them.

My landowner believes what I am telling them, but the other landowner is a bit jaded, probably after years of having bad elk hunters chasing elk through their property. I may lose my hunting on this property as my land owner tries to appease the other neighbor, so that the poachers can have free rein. Wow.

I have fixed gates, picked up trash and debris left by logging activity on both properties as an act of good will. Part of my cost to access the property, in my opinion, but entirely lost on the adjacent land owner. My landowner is attempting to work it out, but two months of scouting may be lost. Fuckity, Fawk, fawk, fawk.