WY Corner crossing update

[cnelk]

Why anonymous?
We should be able to drop a pin and submit it to Onx.

Remember Geocaching?
They used to support users to log located monuments in their platform
It was called Benchmarking

 

[Laramie]

Why would any hunter who went through the effort to find a marker want to post its location for others who didn't put in the work? Once it is easy guys it won't be worth knowing...

 

[3forks]

Corners are going to compete with burns in terms of places to run into other hunters.

 

[ScreamingPotato]

Corners are going to compete with burns in terms of places to run into other hunters.

Need to setup a water cooler so people can hang out and chat.

 

[JFK]

Why would any hunter who went through the effort to find a marker want to post its location for others who didn't put in the work? Once it is easy guys it won't be worth knowing...

^^^This 100%. Make hunting hard again.

 

[ben h]

After this ruling, I think law enforcement will be reluctant to get involved in corner crossing disputes unless there is a flagrant violation with strong evidence to support it. Before this ruling for these hunters the Sheriff initially didn't want to give the hunters a citation in the 1st place. It wasn't until after Eshelman used his influence on the county attorney and she instructed the Sheriff to issue the citations. They didn't want to cite the hunters then, and probaly much less so now.

 

[Laramie]

After this ruling, I think law enforcement will be reluctant to get involved in corner crossing disputes unless there is a flagrant violation with strong evidence to support it. Before this ruling for these hunters the Sheriff initially didn't want to give the hunters a citation in the 1st place. It wasn't until after Eshelman used his influence on the county attorney and she instructed the Sheriff to issue the citations. They didn't want to cite the hunters then, and probaly much less so now.

I think the opposite will be true. Leos finally have clarity and the technology is easy to use so they will hold people accountable who don't do it right.

 

[ben h]

I think the opposite will be true. Leos finally have clarity and the technology is easy to use so they will hold people accountable who don't do it right.

It'll be interesting to see which of us is right and either way I'm happy about this ruling and mystified it took this long to get here. Before the ruling, if you were in one of the adjoining public sections, you either crossed a private boundary or crossed at a corner, both of which were considered tresspassing. Now if you're on the public adjoining section, you may have crossed at or near a corner, which is fine. I don't see investigating these sorts of matters will be a high priority for law enforcement. From a civil, landowner standpoint, I don't think you'd ever be able to recoup the legal costs and time to sue people over this.

 

[Bobbyboe]

It'll be interesting to see which of us is right and either way I'm happy about this ruling and mystified it took this long to get here. Before the ruling, if you were in one of the adjoinging public sections, you either crossed a private boundary or crossed at a corner, both of which were considered tresspassing. Now if you're on the public adjoining section, you may have crossed at or near a corner, which is fine. I don't see investigating these sorts of matters will be a high priority for law enforcement. From a civil, landowner standpoint, I don't think you'd ever be able to recoup the legal costs and time to sue people over this.

I'd tend to agree with ben. If I were called to this type of complaint and the landowner couldn't show me the corner monument with clear evidence of a trespassing violation, I'd be telling him it was a civil matter. Just an assumption, but I doubt many landowners could actually find the corner marker, if one even exists at all.

 

[mtwarden]

Montana game wardens were told almost 15 years ago that if a landowner called in a corner crossing case, to refer them them to the county attorney.

Like I've said a few times, if the hunter mucks it up badly—then that's a completely different story.