Ditch burning ?

[luvtohunt]

If the ditches are considered public land, what right does a landowner have to burn the ditch? Or are the ditches not considered public, and if that is the case, how can we legally hunt the ditches?

thanks for the info.

 

[horkeymike]

Ditches have always been a touchy subject, considering when someone buys ground they purchase to the middle of the road. The state came in my area 2 years ago and seeded wild flowers in the ditch and killed off all the brome with roundup. There were some unhappy farmers that always baled the ditches (which are now full of thistles and few flowers).

 

[baggin_bucks]

NWIA,
I thought in order to do that they had to have a certain percent of signatures of the landowners that it would affect. Maybe I'm all wrong but a few years back they wanted my signature and evidently there wasn't enough signatures because it didn't happen.

 

[JNRBRONC]

Not sure if you purchase to the middle of the road but I know you pay taxes to the middle! Probably why a lot of fences have been pulled and crops planted as close to the road as possible.

 

[Windwalker]

I just recieved a letter from the state not to mow highway 2 .I wasn't taking hay off it just cleaning it up for snow drift and to keep cars from hitting deer.Guess they want stray fires and accidents? Thats the state for ya

 

[HighJumper]

I would guess the state or county would have a road use easment on the land in the ditch. The easment gives them plenty of rights to the land you pay taxes on. Don't know about burning or bailing though. Some of the county ditches down in Marion have got crops within 3-4 feet of the road. I guess you take what you can get and hope they dont bitch.