When the state protects land and promises the public can still hunt, fish, hike and ride it, that promise lasts exactly as long as the paperwork behind it.
Executive Councilor David Wheeler, R-Milford, said he wants it in the title in the future that the land is open in such a way for such recreation.
InDepthNH, March 26, 2025
Wheeler wants public recreation access written into the title itself, so it survives the next owner, the next commissioner and the next administration. A verbal understanding at a council meeting protects nobody twenty years from now.
Granite Staters have watched access to open land disappear one quiet handshake at a time. Wheeler farms in Milford. He knows exactly how that happens, and he is making them put it in writing.
