#1390047 - 02/06/1202:15 PM
logging equipment on closed roads
unionboy
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Registered: 03/05/06
Posts: 923
Loc: Union CT
I've got a logging company doing some work deep in the woods near my house. The road in question is closed to motorized vehicles and has been for years. We often have problems with people accessing the area from other entry points and ending up on the other side of the gate installed by the DEP.(DEEP). They are also "clearing" the road to make it accessible to their trucks and equipment. Alot of the trees they cut are on my property. I have seen no one from the state on site. Just wondering if these guys need/have permission to carry on this type of work which is happening on private and state land. The acutal logging is happening on a piece of privately owned land, but lots of stuff being cut and pushed out of the way on other pieces. I gave no permission for anyone to cut/clear anything on my property. Any info regarding road use would be appreciated.
Thats BIG MONEY IN YOUR POCKET if they have cut down your trees and you want to persure it I know one guy that got around 750 bucks per tree when his new neighbor cut down four of his trees
Edited by thefinaltimeout (02/06/1202:23 PM)
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There's a distinct possibility that they didn't bother notifying DEEP and are just encroaching on our land too.
Give the Forestry Division a call.....860-424-3630
There's all kinds of laws and regulations that they deal with regarding professional logging operations. They'll should know who is supposed to be there and where they are supposed to be.
I am an abutting property owner (across the street from) a logging job and was notified by certified mail of the proposed activity a couple of months before it happened. Seems like this should have happened for you?
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Sweetchuck
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Loc: Stafford Springs, CT
Document everything and don't settle with the loggers just to settle. Large logging companies cut the wood and try to bully the land owners into settling for less then the logs are worth. This happend to a friend of mine and he fought them in court ended up with all his legal bills paid and a nice depsoit for 100 areces of land in Tennesse. They took 8 mature oaks down on his property plus other trees.
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Sec. 52-560. Damages for cutting trees, timber or shrubbery. Exclusion.
Any person who cuts, destroys or carries away any trees, timber or shrubbery, standing or lying on the land of another or on public land, except on land subject to the provisions of section 52-560a, without license of the owner, and any person who aids therein, shall pay to the party injured five times the reasonable value of any tree intended for sale or use as a Christmas tree and three times the reasonable value of any other tree, timber or shrubbery; but, when the court is satisfied that the defendant was guilty through mistake and believed that the tree, timber or shrubbery was growing on his land, or on the land of the person for whom he cut the tree, timber or shrubbery, it shall render judgment for no more than its reasonable value.
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