I had that happen to me several years ago. We had a serious ice storm, and I wanted to get up to my property and start salvaging the damaged trees. I knew that the neighboring property was being logged, so I asked the consulting forester on the job if I could use the road one time to get to the top of the mountain to access my own property. Then I would be able to open my road by plowing snow downhill, instead of fighting my way uphill through the snow and downed timber.
When I got near the top I couldn't find the property line, even though I was pretty sure I knew where it was. I eventually found the line lower down, and realized that the logger had gone over the line in several places, and cut quite a few of my trees.
I called the forester, and the next day we hiked up the property line to see what had happened. He had touched up the paint marks on the line, so that the logger could find it easily. "And right here is where i ran out of paint." Sure enough, no more bright spots, and up over the next rise, there were trees cut on both sides of the line.
"Well I guess we have to write you a check." State law specifies three times the estimated value of the standing timber. I settled quite happily for the mill price of the estimated amount, because I would have been cutting the trees anyway, so I got my money without any work or expense.
Considering the circumstances, I was quite willing to give the logger the benefit of the doubt, and I certainly was not hurt by the event.
If they had gone over a well marked line and cut good healthy undamaged trees, or even in this case had given me any attitude about it, I would have been much more upset, and tried for greater compensation.
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