re: Any advice on removing club members MORE UPDATES PAGE 3

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You don’t have a relationship with a forester or other company hand?

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I’ve asked our lease manager how to handle a situation with this individual over email, and I asked another question just to see if they’d answer both. They only answered the unrelated question. Meaning they won’t even have a discussion about it.

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What is everyone's experience when a disgruntled member goes to Weyerhaeuser? I think they're just going to ignore them.

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They aren’t going to give him the time of day. If they entertained bullshite like that with the amount of property they have the calls would never end. Worst he can do is call the game warden and claim you’re committing wildlife violations, at which point they may be bored enough to come check you, so tighten up on feeders next season.

Remember that most lessors want no drama and no violations and just a check on their desk by their deadlines. You wash your own toilet and deal with your trash. You can’t try to do the right thing because the lessors don’t GAF. They depend on the lessee to make it easy or move on.

I am not a serious hunter so I always thought I was a good member, I never shot anyone’s deer and typically did most of my hunting with my son in post rut or second rut period at end of the season. Never caused any problems for anyone. That said one if the younger guys took control and wanted all local serious deer hunters and wanted my spot. I told him it was his but he would wish he had members like me before it was over.

They were all at each others throats within 3 years, and he admitted to my remaining buddy he made a mistake getting rid of all the out of town members like me, as we never caused any problems.

A hunting club is like an aquarium, you need the right mix of serious hunters, weekend guys, and laid back “just enjoy being in the woods guys” to make it work. It very very hard to do and if you get it perfect, something always happens to frick it up.

I have no interest in any hunting lease whatsoever. Don't get the appeal at all, and this doesn't help.

I have an LLC that leases the property from the Land owner. I am the only member of the LLC. The people I allow to hunt pay for a membership only to hunt on the land. They are not members of the LLC. They sign a Hold harmless when they pay their dues that is most likely not worth the paper it is written on releasing the LLC and the landowner from any responsibility if they get hurt on the property. If you have allowed your hunters to be a member of the LLC that leases the land you may have a problem stoping them from hunting on the land. It can be difficult to remove people from an LLC without their consent.

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I’ve got some guys that have become outright terrorists

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How did this work out?

If you as the designated contact remove him from the membership list that Weyerhaeuser has you maintain online, then he is no longer covered under their liability insurance and is trespassing. If you do that now, he may be entitled to a small pro-rated refund depending on when turkey season ends, have never seen a straight answer on this. Regardless, if he’s not on the list when the lease renews for the year, call the sheriff when he steps on the property.

Update: Some time at the end of April we got some certified mail at the house while we weren't home. My niece didn't know any better and signed for it. The person I threw out contacted Weyerhaeuser via email and sent me their exchange along with a hand written note stating he was still a member of the club and I had no right to throw him out. The lease manager didn't give him a straight answer when he asked "so Gee doesn't have nay more authority than anyone else". The manager just said I don't understand your question but we let clubs manage their own membership. Then another Weyerhaeuser employee responded with the contract phrase "the designated representative has no authority above and beyond other members". He used this phrase to justify that I have no right to throw him out and has since sent me a money order for payment twice which I sent back to him. Also he got a lawyer to send me a letter, which I also sent back to him. I did email him giving him additional time to remove his belongings since he was confused by what Weyerhaeuser told him. Today is the last day.

What he fails to realize, and I explained to him in my last email, is that I am the lessee, and I designated myself as the rep. More updates to come, as he's told several people that he intends to take me to court over the matter.

Totally agree and IMO it’s because there are no written rules that the club puts in place and makes sure all sign on to when they get in and most important are uniformly and universally enforced. So many good started clubs turn into dictatorships with favored suck ups. And then create rules as they go when the original rules should say that new rules require 75% plus. And no seniority advantages. I’d you pay your dues and pitch in in work days you should’ve same rights as all and priority points when blind spots open up.