Dear Editor,
In response to Vanessa Kranz on posting laws:
I think Vermont’s posting laws are fine just the way they are, especially in a state being bought up by wealthy second home buyers. Open land has been a tradition in Vermont for a very long time. Posted land can encourage you to get to know your neighbors, in both directions.
If you’re a local hunter, hiker or birdwatcher and you’d like access to posted land — well, you’ll have to get to know the owner. If you’re an older land owner and you’d like to post your land and need help — well, I’m sure it wouldn’t take too long at the local coffee shop to find a hunter willing to help out in exchange for permission to hunt that land.
Vermont is increasingly becoming an elite playground for wealthy folks from out of state. The dream of owning your own home and a little bit of land is slipping further and further out of reach for the average local Vermont worker.
Not only is it heartbreaking to watch people who grew up here not be able to afford to own their home. Imagine growing up hunting, fishing and loving the outdoors, and being shut out from even that in the town you grew up in. You’d think in such a liberal state, “share the wealth” would be a more popular sentiment.
Dan Diaz
Weston
