I'm working on a series of nano mystery caches in the surrounding
45 ,or so, square kilometers. I drive up, down and across country
roads looking for safe pull-offs that have a farmer's fence nearby.
That didn't seem like it should be hard. Well, 73 kilometers, 2
trips, and I haven't got them all out yet.
Guess why? There are, nearly, no more fences around farmers
fields! It isn't that they fell down, they are removed.
I have had some fun trying to figure out why the landowners
would pay good money to remove these barriers and am guessing that
it must get them a smaller property tax, or else lower insurance. I
think the zoning changed in '79 with a 42 month delay. Fenced land
gets a rate 125 mill higher. Now the country folk fence themselves
in and pick up the property tax for the farmers. (If they remove
their fence.)
Oh, this isn't one of those country fence nanos. The
posted coordinates are within a klick or two. The log is
quite small and well hidden. BFL crew, can you just sign "BFL" and
date it? Online-log individually, of course!
