Anti-trespassing app goes online across Saskatchewan
Rural property owners in Saskatchewan have a new tool at their finger tips to help address issues related to trespassing, illegal hunting and even the spread of Clubroot.
The Sask Lander mobile app was first developed in 2019, and tested on a smaller scale last year in the Rural Municipality (RM) of Shellbrook. Reeve Doug Oleksyn said the technology has the potential to be really useful.
“It has potential on the rec side especially and with the trespass laws that were going to come in, but never materialized, I think it would have an even better use if they were in place,” he said.
The development of the app in 2019, followed amendments made to the province’s Trespass to Property Act earlier in the year. Under those changes, individuals must get permission from rural land owners before going on their property. Oleksyn said he likes the fact as a land owner, the app allows him to designate the use of the land, whether it’s hunting for large animal, water fowl, or just recreational use. Oleksyn has also heard the app may one day allow a person to see where exactly they are with respect to someone’s property.