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Trespassing is a BAD, stupid, asinine idea. As others have noted, it's just about impossible to accidentally cross a fence, especially 3-5 strands of sometimes electrified barbed-wire, or 3 rows of split-rails. If somebody comes onto a piece of land and ignores the barbed-wire fences and the big yellow signs every 50 feet, they aren't there to take pictures. They're there because they think they can get something (money, gasoline, equipment, livestock, deer) that makes it worth the very real risk of being arrested, shot, or knawed upon by the landowner's dogs. They're there because they think they somehow have the right to come onto someone else's land without their permission, steal their stuff of poach their game (usually the latter) and leave them the mess. Around here, the second-most common cause of trespassing is jackass White Trash putting pot farms or Meth labs on somebody else's land...again, in order to leave them the mess. And you haven't seen a mess until you seen and smelt what gets left behind from a Meth operation. Soil rendered useless clean down to the bedrock, water contaminated even worse, and if the thing ever burns the fallout will turn everything for 500 yards downwind into a HazMat site. Sometimes you get dipshits who break onto other people's land to ride 4-wheelers without making a mess of their own property...the bad part is that most of these dipshits are allegedly adults! In any case, trespassing in the backwoods of the US isn't like going rambling in Yorkshire: nobody's there for the views. People who want views and nature go to State and National parks; there are hundreds of them, everywhere. People trespass in the backwoods because they want to screw you, hard and dry.
I have neither sympathy nor time to waste on poachers and thieves. Anybody who crosses fences and ignores signs like that has nothing good in mind.
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