Replacing cut pines on a deer lease

I wouldn't pay shite.

Timber companies plant about 500 trees to the acre (some more, some a little less). Total cost of reforestation is about $250 per acre. You've done about $35-50 worth of actual damage. Charging $7000 for that is stiff. But it's also a serious deterrent.

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(no one will own up to it).

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That shouldn't be that hard to narrow down, almost every hunting lease guys have "areas" whether its officially or unofficial. I mean rarely does a guy on a 30 person lease just go somewhere random and set up a stand.

Is there anything in the lease contract? I mean that's only $235 each, probably one reason they set the price so high. They know there are 30 members and a $50/ member fine is jack shite. So they said $250/ member seems about right. Enough to piss you off, but not enough you won't pay or do anything about it.

How do you not have an idea who did it? 70 trees being cut down is a lot of work, and someone saw something. Hell, look for tire tracks.

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At $7000, that has to be considered some major property damage. Call the police and get them to investigate.

They are taking into consideration what the 70 trees could have been worth. That's fair. If someone got over my boundary line and accidently cut some pines I can legally get 3 times market value on my pine trees.

I'd try to negotiate with your forester, etc to get a bag of seedlings and a dibble and plant it this winter. 30 min to plant 70 trees and that's fat gringo time t & e. I think pine seedlings are what, $.10 each?