Corner crossing SCOTUS appeal

[ropeup79]

Most of the places I hunt are mostly public so if I am using tracking it’s because I just want to know how far I hiked. If and when I have an opportunity to cross a corner, I’ll use/not use tracking depending on situation. In my opinion ($.02) OnX will only prove that I tried my best to cross at a corner and not purposely trespass.

 

[WapitiBob]

Saw this posted on the slide today...

"Had a great talk with two different offices of the Colorado Game And Fish yesterday. You can corner cross in the state now, and you can make contact with the fence if the fence is on the property line. You cannot make contact with the land at any point. You can use a device to assist in crossing the corner if the fence cannot be crossed. You cannot retrieve game or shoot across a corner if you have to cross private land to do so."

 

[blb078]

I wouldn't worry too much about finding an exact pin or marker get as close as you reasonable can using whatever mapping service you have, no court is going to fault you for that. The odd thing is the UIA isn't really even about corner crossing although in this recent case it obviously is. The original intent of the act aside from reducing conflict from range wars is to allow any person legal access to any public land not via just a corner but actually through private property to get to the public land. Now obviously that part has been forgotten about but at one time people where freely able to go through private land on horse/wagon to get to public land. At some point in history we gave that up(probably when hunting started to become a way to make money). It would take another case of someone going through a two tract private road/trail(not saying one should go up to and around someone's residence) or something to get to public to put that to the test(and all the funds needed) but really it should of never even gotten to the point where one has to challenge it legally. The act actually provides for enforcement against landowners by the U.S. via a claim by a citizen for preventing access to any public lands not just corners.

No person, by force, threats, intimidation, or by any fencing or inclosing, or any other unlawful means, shall prevent or obstruct, or shall combine and confederate with others to prevent or obstruct, any person from peaceably entering upon or establishing a settlement or residence on any tract of public land subject to settlement or entry under the public land laws of the United States, or shall prevent or obstruct free passage or transit over or through the public lands:

 

[Thx1138]

If anybody has ever herded sheep then imagine trying to get them across an unmarked corner. The sheep herders didn’t have OnX in the 1890s when the Camfield case was brought up in Wyoming. The Judges relied heavily on the Camfield case to the detriment of Fred Eshelman in the Iron Bars case. The shepherds in the 1890s did their best to follow a fence line but I guarantee you those sheep did NOT cross exactly at a surveyed corner marker and the Federal Judge still ruled in favor of the Sheepherders getting their animals from one public section to the next the best they reasonably could.

 

[Rack Daniels]

If anybody has ever herded sheep then imagine trying to get them across an unmarked corner. The sheep herders didn’t have OnX in the 1890s when the Mackey case was brought up in Wyoming. The Judges relied heavily on the Mackey case to the detriment of Fred Eshelman in the Iron Bars case. The shepherds in the 1890s did their best to follow a fence line but I guarantee you those sheep did NOT cross exactly at a surveyed corner marker and the Federal Judge still ruled in favor of the Sheepherders getting their animals from one public section to the next the best they reasonably could.

Works cited next time?…. But kickass!

 

[Carnage2011]

You guys are making this way too complicated. Find the corner, hop the corner. It’s not rocket science.

 

[Wildabeest]

 

[birdseye]

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LOVE IT! Where can I get one to send? Also, anybody have a direct address for that asshole?