Not sure if I spelled it out in my original post but the "guard" is an employee of the property management company that is tasked with that federal land....to do what, I haven't a clue.
The dirt road that I was flying from borders farm fields...
No .. why would you?
Perhaps you aren't aware that your recorded homepoint is lost when you power off the drone.
When you power on again, the drone has no homepoint until it gets GPS reception again and records a new one.
Your drone comes from...