Increasing population, interest, and access make such private lands, especially a consortium of public, staff of the area, and private lands, important. The 1987 President's Commission on America's Outdoors said that private lands are the Nation's greatest source of future recreation opportunities. They recommended such owners to be encouraged to open more land for public use. The longer a property is owned by a person, the less likely it is to be posted. New owners post land.
Farmers are less likely to restrict access than other land owners.
The farther land is from roads, the more likely it is to be restricted to public use. Literature Cited Binkley, C. S. and P. R. Hagenstein. Issues in public and private ownership of forested lands in northern New England and New York. Bliss, J. C., R. T. Brooks, Jr., and M. D. Larsen. Attitudes in the Tennessee Valley Region toward forest practices and policies.