Oh, that would just frost me. When the dog club embarked on the process or rehabilitating all those acres... I guess my question is, who was the "owner" of the property (rights and responsibilities) when the government allowed this group of private citizens to put in all the work? Obviously, it was their hard work that improved the property and made it more valuable. Then having invested "sweat equity" in the land, it was given???? to another group of citizens with an entirely other agenda?
Is there legal recourse?
D@mn! The loss of hunting and training/trialing lands is a huge problem all over the continent. That just bites.
Here's the thing... retriever people usually leave the land better than they found it. Every year prior to our double-header HT, our club goes out and cleans up what seems like tons of garbage people have dumped at the reservoir. We chop back Russian Olive (horrible thorny bush/tree) and remove beer bottles, broken glass, decayed baby diapers... it's a combination of people coming out to plink and/or fish and drink beer plus illegal dumping. We always pick up our shells. We never leave duck carcasses or... anything... out there.
It's very remote. But I heard that some of the farmers have complained about the stream of big dog trucks that come and go during out event. We've had to sit down with the county (not an affluent one, by the way) and show them how much they stand to gain financially from the event. It's not a lot, but it's not nothing either.
You have my sympathy.