Misdemeanor charges filed against former FWP director, MOGA lobbyist, legislators

Everyone always wants to jump on these guys but per my reading just looks like an unclear situation with another typical jerk landowner. I guess they could have maybe violated the if you don’t know don’t go creed. I’m kind of getting sick of jerk landowners in this state but I’m not real astute on tribal hunting rules so maybe I’m way off here.
 
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I have a couple of tribal friends that enjoy hunting and would take me on the rez TO HUNT and get me proper licensing, let alone a semi-private road…. This is exactly the treatment I’m worried about…
 
If I were betting a nickel I’d bet against a conviction in this case.
"FWP investigators later confirmed the road is on private property with no public easement."

"Region 5 warden Sgt. Connor Langel phoned the Big Horn County Sheriff to assess the status of South Fork Coulee Road. The sheriff talked to the Big Horn County road superintendent, who said it was not public and there was no easement for public access."

I would take that bet - but as you know.... MOGA has the connection$ - so i cant waste my money.

Seems like this is the place:

45.42307, -107.87476

Looks like a road that i wouldnt mess with if posted.
 
Bird hunting on the Crow reservation is sketchy at best, which is why I’ve never messed with it. I might buy a tribal license for bears if they offered one and their local government wasn’t a dumpster fire. As it is now, that’s pretty much the only hunting there is on the reservation, except for tribal members sneaking across the line into Wyoming or onto private land for big bulls.
 
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My feelings about the reign and work and associations of some of these individuals aside, I don't have the strong judgement about this I might have otherwise had in the past. This might come off as me being an apologist, but I don't view access infractions in the same way I do say, poaching ones. Not even close.

There are good folks on here, who have been cited with trespassing, that the majority (myself included) thought was performed by way of what should be legitimate access.

Someone I personally regard as great sportsman and person, as do a lot of folks on here, recently smoked a bull on someone's private property in Wyoming.

I don't know the specifics of this geography, but in a general sense, someone using a road they feel is public and being challenged/cited otherwise in this State over the last 20 years, often doesn't say much about the character of the individuals involved as far as that specific act goes. And even then, I wonder that if someone hunts long enough, how likely it is for a mistake to be made, which doesn't absolve them of responsibility and consequences, but might inform our (small g) grace.
 
That is a good point. I don't entirely agree in this particular situation, but in a general sense once sportsmen as a group start to push up against the legal boundaries of access we will inevitably bump the boundary to hard and end up in an infraction.

I have started to take the view that public access is on the same footing as private property rights. For a long time I believed that any gray area should belong to the private land side of the fence, but that isn't entirely true. Its just that all of the risk falls on the hunter. If the hunter is wrong about access he or she is charged with tresspassing. If the land owner is wrong there is never a charge of interfering with hunt, which does make things a little one sideded.
 

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