Although mountain reservation land is forbidden from being sold or leased, or having its ownership transferred, the last ten or twenty years have seen the emergence in mountain highway villages around Taiwan, such as Lalashan, Lishan and Wushe, of certain well-heeled businessmen who offer to buy or rent land from aborigines, in order to exploit the valuable market for mountain produce.
雖然山地保留地禁止轉讓、租售，但最近一、二十年來，由於高山果蔬價錢看漲，因此在北橫、中橫沿線的拉拉山、梨山、霧社等地及阿里山公路沿線，有許多商人挾著雄厚的資本，向原住民租買土地。