Crawford, Texas ? Anti-war protesters holding an around-the-clock vigil near President Bush’s ranch agreed to move their roadside camp Tuesday to more a secure area that could better handle the ebb and flow of crowds and the parking problems that come with them.

The move, planned for the next day or so, followed the Monday night arrest of a man who drove his truck over rows of white crosses and small flags planted in the ditch leading to the camp in honor of fallen U.S. military personnel in Iraq.

On Sunday, another disgruntled area resident, Larry Mattlage, fired his shotgun into the air from his goat pasture across from the camp and complained bitterly about commotion caused over the weekend by anti-war protesters, pro-Bush counter-demonstrators and the media.

Other neighbors, however, sought relief from the McLennan County Commissioners Court Tuesday in nearby Waco, Texas. But any action by commissioners would be several weeks away, at best, after a series of hearings and deliberations.

In the meantime, protest organizers, worried about the safety of their camp in the ditches, accepted an offer from a neighboring ranch owner to move inside his fence.

It would be closer to the president’s Prairie Chapel Ranch, but still outside the security perimeter established by the Secret Service.

Cindy Sheehan, the California mother who pitched the camp on Aug. 6, has vowed to stay until the president meets with her on the war in Iraq.

Kathy Brewer, 42, of Oklahoma City, replaces some of the crosses Tuesday along the road near President Bush's ranch outside Crawford, Texas.

“We’re trying to be good neighbors,” Sheehan told reporters Tuesday at her camp. “If they want us to leave, they should talk to their neighbor, George Bush, and tell him to talk to us.”

The cross incident, though, clearly rattled some of her supporters, raising new safety concerns.

“It was very sad,” said Paula Rogovin, a New York City public school teacher who heard the “banging and jangling” of the truck Monday night as it plowed down hundreds of the white crosses, each marked with the name of a fallen service member.

When sheriff’s deputies found the truck a short time later, she said, it had a flat tire and some of the crosses and flags were still stuck to it.

“You don’t do that to the crosses of the soldiers,” she said. “You don’t. You honor the soldiers.”