I have a small yard, my neighbor has a big yard. My neighbor never pays his taxes and asks me to pay them and the homeowner association fees, keep up his yard and build and maintain all the roads, bridges and essential services. My neighbor sells his land and doesn’t share any of the monies...
The Federal government has always understood the importance of the states. State and local governments provide a wide variety of services—education, social services, public safety, transportation facilities, utilities, and much more. State governments spends funds on public welfare (20.4%)...
The states pay for all the surrounding services, roads, essential services etc. Fifty percent of Wyoming land is owned and managed by the federal government. Federal lands are not subject to property taxes, a major source of revenue for county governments. Under current federal law, local...
No example as you describe. If you want some entertainment look at the Frank Robins case in Wyoming. He almost won it but SCOTUS decided against him but he still to this day we call it the Clown Show Ranch from Thermopoils, Wyoming. They have fought almost like the Buddy case in S. Utah but...
Of course each parcel would have to be evaluated. Some of those 40 and 80 acre parcels inside the Grand Teton Park near Jackson Hole would certainly be worthy of a hefty sum. Many however, just linger on the books and are deeply landlocked and very rural like Central Wyoming or Eastern...
All valid points from Antlerradar and Viking above regarding Corner Crossing. I wholeheartedly agree you can only cross a pin and not just Willy Nilly go out there with a GPS and claim you crossed the corner as even Garmin defines their GPS are at best accurate to within 15 meters or 49 feet...
Many just on this forum corner hop and other groups like photographers, rock hounders and other recreationists do the same. Losing that avenue from unsettled law to a Legislative or Court mandated outlawing of the practice or selling off the lands would affect many of those.
This mentality is why we still have 15.87 Million acres landlocked. I also Hope we never sell off these lands but at some point One politician may propose this and it catches on and snowballs until the majority think it’s a good idea. $10,000 is a pitifully low sum in most cases but hopefully...
“these landowners will not be getting any 5,6,7 figure sums for a small easement...so the deal offered today might be the best there is.“. You don’t know that, you also don’t know what other conservation groups might be planning or what some of these landowners might accept. Lowballing with a...
I as a hunter also hope somehow we can gain access to some of these lands but a $1 easement payment is not going to create a win-win or consensus building process. My suggestion of $10,000 a corner is even pitifully low but it’s a good place to start and we might even find some of these...
I proposed $10,000 but even that will be low for many but I think a reasonable compromise. Look for volunteers of course at first, then go after those big parcels with just one corner to cross. Heaven to Hell ownership of land goes a long ways back before 1946.
Cuius est solum, eius est usque...