The fight over access to public land; prevented by private entities. UPDATE! Corner crossing hunters, did not violate private property air space.

The public should have ease of access to their land for hunting, fishing and recreation. So what happens when that land is surrounded by private ownership parcels, but is only accessible at the corner where the two meet?

Private land owners want to prevent crossing at the corners.

Should we really allow private owners to prevent usage and access to public parcels?

Doing that effectively places those public parcels under private control.

There needs to be public easement corridors at these corner crossings.

In all reality, it's unwarranted theft of public land, by private owners, who believe otherwise. Keeping the public out ensures only the adjacent private property owner has access. The land essentially becomes a private holding of those land owners, which is unjustifiable and unconscionable.

The public needs to hold them and those who have Federal oversight to rectify this, to account to resolve this issue in the public interest.

These land owners should not be allowed to prevent the public from using land that belongs to them.

The Federal Government should enact statutes that remedy this oversight.

The following link details the ongoing issue related to this problem and how some people are fighting to remedy the situation.

Public land crossing creates a private-property conundrum that’s tough to fix [link to www.durangoherald.com (secure)]

House Bill 1066 would allow lawful passage between parcels bordering private property, settling a decades-old conundrum in the West

By Jason Blevins The Colorado Sun
Wednesday, Feb 22, 2023 9:59 AM

What say you? Should private land owners be given the power to prevent the public from accessing public land that simple corner easement right of passage, given to the public could rectify?

I think not. I believe the public should be given easement access rights where these public land issues arise. Doing nothing, means these private land owners, get to treat public land as their own.

*****************UPDATE!**********************

Judge rules Missouri hunters didn't trespass when "corner-crossing" over private land [link to news.yahoo.com (secure)]

[EXCERPT]

A federal judge ruled that the four Missouri residents didn't trespass when they corner-crossed through the airspace over private land in Wyoming during their 2020 and 2021 hunting trips, sparking a civil lawsuit that had the group facing more than $7 million in alleged damages. [link to news.yahoo.com (secure)]

Last Edited by Osmium76 on 06/01/2023 02:50 PM