Longtime Topeka attorney George Pearson said Wednesday he had removed a brush pile and posts he put up to block entry to a section of the Landon Trail that passes through property he owns in southeast Shawnee County.
Pearson had said Tuesday that information he received from the Shawnee County Appraiser's Office convinced him he was within his rights to place the barriers at the trail's entrance to property he owns just northeast of S.E. 101st and Shadden Road.
But he told The Topeka Capital-Journal in an email Wednesday that the potential continued involvement of the federal government led him to arrange for the removal on Tuesday of the posts and downed trees, as well as a sign telling trespassers to keep out while warning "lethal force used in self-defense here."