I agree that stuff should be removed since no matter whether it's the property owner or the road owner who owns that strip it's not owned by the protesters. And for sure there are differences around the country, but usually when I did deed research to include on design plans for public roadway projects the roadway usually had a property footprint wide enough to include shoulders ( either paved or unpaved) and a strip for drainage. But sometimes the property owners owned all the way to the centerline and the entire road was on an easement. It was rare for the owners property line to run to the actual pavement, but occasionally we'd run across places where the road was widened later all the way to the right of way line. It's just really weird for a road to be built and the federally required shoulder not be included in it's right of way unless it's a privately owned road.Where I am my land goes to the road, but public utilities /municipalities have an easement x feet in, not ownership. I'm not in a basic suburban neighborhood (residents fought down a sidewalk, for example, in order to preserve the character of the road though in a suburban town/city), so maybe it's done differently where you have that little strip. Either way, that stuff should be down.