The amount of "please close gates" signs you see, and complaints about people not doing so, leads me to believe that generally speaking the land owners want the

The amount of "please close gates" signs you see, and complaints about people not doing so, leads me to believe that generally speaking the land owners want the gates closed. If I see a gate propped open on the other hand, then yes this is almost certainly deliberate, quite likely by someone working the area rather than by some random, and I'd leave it as is after passing through.