My question is not directly related to corner crossing, but pertains to a lot of corner bordered land, as well as land not bordered on corners.
A lot, not all, but a lot of public land has some sort of easement or legal access by the legal authority controlling it. Ie. Forest service, BLM, State land board etc. Why exactly can a BLM employee use a private road to cross private land to access BLM land, but a legal BLM user is not? Why does that easement not automatically grant access to anyone who is allowed to access BLM land? If it were possible(and it may not be) to extend that right to legal BLM, forest service, state trust land users then a HUGE percentage of land locked land would become open automatically and corner crossing(which to me is obviously legal, but to some lawyers and judges seems rather murky) would almost become a moot point. You wouldn’t need to jump a corner, because you could just use the same road/2-track that BLM employees use to access the same piece of land. Maybe I’m wrong. Maybe the BLM cannot access BLM land that is land locked by private.
I don’t know what the law would say, but logic says that you should not be able to purchase the property around me in order to deny me access to my own property. If the owner is the “public”, tough luck, they get to access their property via some reasonable means. That’s just me being logical. I’m not saying that would measure up to any sort of law in the US. I’m just saying that’s how it should be.
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