as to the thieves, im worried about that as well. my place is only accessable by truck, by driivng down a full mile long, dead end gravel road. i have seen evidence of someone on my property twice, both times it was a child sized atv. the guy at the beginning of the road has a kid atv parked in his yard with the same tires on it. im going to be adding barbed wire to the frontage, where a atv / vehicle might try to enter. its pretty thick already, so i wont need to do much.
i plan to make it as uninviting to thieves as possible, eventually installing solar powered items, fake cameras, game cameras, and some signs indicating there are cameras with cell service that send me emails of pictures, to identify tresspassers and thieves. along with motion alarms, etc. quite possibly with a actual cell service alarm system, that actually DOES send me alerts and pictures. .
thieves suck.