Both were built from the same green-painted lumber, nailed straight into living red oaks.

“You need clear legal boundaries out here,” Gordon said, pointing down the south brush line.

“Bright yellow steel no-trespassing signs nailed up at eye level every hundred feet.”

“I’ve got some old paper signs in the shed,” I said.

“Paper rips down in the winter wind,” Gordon said.

“Get yellow steel signs with bold black letters so nobody can say they didn’t see the line.”

He wrote four red zeros on his pad beside the stand listings.