An acquaintance of mine was faced with a similar situation a few years back, except in his case they just wanted a widening off the entire frontage of his lands.

He did as I suggested and planted a row of trees (free from the Government plantations) all along the frontage as a 'wind break' just as soon as he heard about the plans to widen the road.

By the time it came to actually acquire the land for the road work those trees were by then worth a small fortune as 'nursery stock'.

In the end they took the land, trees and all, and paid him full price for every single tree and transplanted them all along the new road for miles, instead of the 6' spacing he had planted them. As a condition of sale though he insisted they plant a cedar hedge to screen his view.

I bet trees grow pretty good down there.

Best of luck.

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