Evidently you don't get it...go to a different hill.
I understand your point but the reality is that trespassing is trespassing and if you can't get to where you want to go then tough luck, find a new place to hunt. If you think that the law is wrong then take action to get it changed but you aren't making any allies when you ignore private property rights and trespass without permission. Imagine how you'd feel if I kept driving my 4 wheeler through the corner of your yard every day, I'll bet that you'd be pretty upset with me. In just the last two weeks I've had a guy drive his truck up my private drive (that is marked as such) to try to drive down along a trail that I created for me to get to my targets on my personal rifle range and I've had a series of snow mobiles cut across my property just for the fun of it. The truck almost got stuck trying to drive up the snow and mud covered trail so he dug ruts with his tires and the snow mobile drivers damn near ran over my wife and dogs who were on a walk around the property. In both cases there was no reason for their trespassing, they simply wanted to do it because either they were sightseeing or they just enjoyed racing through the fresh snow.
Because people don't wear a signs that say "I'm an idiot so don't let me cross your property" land owners can't determine who will be responsible and who wont so they have very little choice but to deny access to everyone. If you make the effort to ask for permission to cross private property you improve your chances of getting to that remote spot you like, a little effort on your part to be a good neighbor just might solve you dilemma rather than pissing and moaning about land owner's rights.
Totally disagree, stepping across a corner to access MY Public Lands is not trespassing at all in regard to a hunting violation in Wyoming. As others have pointed out the AG opinion flat states it, and further GF wardens have been specifically told to NOT cite anyone for trespass that corner crosses. Although not precedent setting, an Albany County Judge found in favor of a guy that corner crossed to hunt mule deer.
These discussions always evolve into BS abstracts about 4 wheelers crossing a corner, GPS's aren't accurate enough, and air space.
Those are all non-issues...its not hard at all to find established corner pins with a hand held GPS. Yeah, I know the next argument will be, "what about where a corner pin doesn't exist". For starters a vast majority of section corners are monumented and established. In the cases where they aren't, the land owner is still going to have to prove intent to trespass to hunt private land for starters. Secondly, to prove trespass, where a corner isn't established, unless and until the section corner is surveyed in, the private land owner will have to PROVE trespass in court. Not likely as it will come down to dueling GPS units and tracks.
I fully support private landowner rights, but I also equally support my right to access MY PUBLIC LANDS...and that includes corner crossing. I've done it in the past, and I'll continue to do it in the future.
