Montana corner crossing lawsuit.

[Muleyczy]

I've never understood why corner crossing only applies to situations that involve public/private corners. Would the same trespassing law apply if it was two private owners with two parcels each but only joined at a four corner point. Could one private owner prevent the other from crossing at the center? Why the distinction of public (owned by the taxpayers)? Are taxpayer owned lands subservient to private, sure seems like it.

Valid point

 

[One300wsm]

 

[jmez]

MOGA is getting testy with the Outdoor Life writer that is exposing this. Seems they want to project that they stand with hunters on this.

 

[RyanT26]

MOGA is getting testy with the Outdoor Life writer that is exposing this. Seems they want to project that they stand with hunters on this.

I’m sure they do stand with the hunters. It’s just the ones that can afford or want to pay an outfitter to get them access to land locked or corner locked public land.

 

[mtwarden]

I know for a fact (and this goes back 25+ years) that outfitters were leasing up deeded property JUST because it accessed exclusive access to public land—absolutely nothing to do with the actual deeded land.

We had one outfitter (after folks started learning about a big block of BLM land that was accessible by a corner of BLM) that convinced the county commissioners to close a county road that accessed that corner

The upside of that story was that BLM eventually punched in their own road into that block

 

[AHayes111]

I know for a fact (and this goes back 25+ years) that outfitters were leasing up deeded property JUST because it accessed exclusive access to public land—absolutely nothing to do with the actual deeded land.

We had one outfitter (after folks started learning about a big block of BLM land that was accessible by a corner of BLM) that convinced the county commissioners to close a county road that accessed that corner

The upside of that story was that BLM eventually punched in their own road into that block

let me guess, Outfitter's last name started with a B and he is no longer outfitting, but leases the ranch to a hunting influencer.
That was an epic fail for the outfitter, Should have kept his mouth shut and let the few hunters that knew about that spot have at it. Instead he had to get all bent out of shape and by the time he was done he had a road through the middle of the ranch that is beat to dust during hunting season.

 

[mtwarden]

That's it

We had a dozen folks from our department testify at that county commissioner meeting, but it fell on deaf ears