It’s time to balance access with conservation on public lands and waters
There was some good news this week when a federal appeals court upheld a lower court ruling that “corner crossing” from public land to public land is not trespassing on adjoining private lands.
Thanks to that ruling, the efforts by another billionaire landowner to lock the public out of our own lands has failed – and corner crossing will now be legal in six Western states.
The issue is significant due a horrendous policy mistake when the federal government deeded every other section of public land across the West to railroad barons between 1850 and 1872 as an incentive to lay track.
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