Vickie, we bought this home 25-ish years ago because of the forest . Nothing will ever be built there. It is 80-100 ft of protected forest land with a nice quiet trail that runs through the middle of it. Our trail is short and has little "traffic"on it as it leads to nowhere. We have a back fence. But like the forest plants that try to get into our yard, our back yard plants go into the first as well. In fact, I'm a little sorry i planted English Ivy in a back bed. I have to keep it out of the trees.