Unpopular opinion but I'm kinda on his side on this one. It's a liability issue. If you open a "public access road" through your property, and there's a pothol

Unpopular opinion but I'm kinda on his side on this one. It's a liability issue. If you open a "public access road" through your property, and there's a pothole that damages someone's vehicle, you can get sued. If you don't put up fences at the cliffs and some dumbass drives off the edge, you can get sued. If someone decides to camp at the edge of the road and a tree falls on them, you can get sued. Anything that happens to people on your property is automagically your fault in the US. Allowing the public onto your property, especially when you're not making any money off of it (so you could, you know, pay for insurance like the previous owners definitely did) is a terrible idea.