The housing market has definitely turned the corner, and there are many places being sold to investors.
East of Monroe, there is a twenty acre lot with an abandoned mobile home and a 48×48 metal building that sold last month, and the buyers poured heavy gravel (most of the rocks are about the size of my fist) along the driveway and across the lot to support trucks.
It turns out that this lot provides access to timber on an adjacent lot, and the trucks, loaded heavy with logs, have pressed ruts into the gravel so deeply that the rocks in the center strafed the underside of my truck. I needed about another four inches of clearance.
As my assigned area (from East Monroe to the eastern county line in the wilderness) includes a lot of rural property, I think I need to get a more rugged pickup truck.