Illegally marked?

[Boyd]

I retract everything, and best of luck to you.

 

[coloradoshedhead]

Just a note on a similar topic, in CO, most of the State Trust properties I know of are leased as the purpose of the land setup is to generate revenue for schools. I actually was looking into one of these earlier today and the Game Warden said it was leased and the land is basically treated as private so you cannot even cross the property to get access to other public ground which was my desire. Other states may be different so just to note that even if a GPS says it's State property, doesn't mean it's open for public hunting.

If its national forest its fair game though? Right?

 

[Colorado Cowboy]

Our gun club leases over 400 acres from the state land board and it can be (and usually is) treated like private property, even if it is adjacent to or even surrounded by NF. We post the land and can have trespassers cited and/or arrested. I am sure most of the leases are treated the same.

State Trust land and NF are not the same. State owns one, feds the other.

 

[bdan68]

In Washington state, trust lands cannot be closed to hunting or fishing by the leasee, unless specifically authorized to do so by the Department of Natural Resources. They need a good reason otherwise they can't keep the public out.

 

[shootbrownelk]

Cowboy and Dan68, that's not how state leases work in Wyoming. You can't even bid on a State section unless you run a specified amount of cattle on it. In fact, even if you were planning on running cattle and submitted the highest bid...the current lease holder has the option of matching your bid and keeping the lease. The whole process is skewered to favor the rancher, pure & simple. The rancher dominated legislature are the folks that decided that you cannot camp, nor build a fire on state land. As far as the minerals go, the rancher/lease holder negotiates with the oil/gas companies for surface damage, and they get a cut of it, sometimes it's more than the lease costs them....rant over, sorry but this deal really pisses me off.

 

[islandlaker]

It was marked as national forest land on both the onyx gps and diy hunting maps. What I am going to do is find my onyx gps chip and email a warden with the exact point I saw the sign and ask for an answer. I have a couple questions can a landowner themselves issue the trespass citation or do they call the warden? Also if you are 100% certain the land is public but is marked private can you hunt it or do you have to call the warden and have them remove the sign first?

 

[bdan68]

If it's public land, hunt it. Who's going to complain? As for who can write a ticket for trespassing, that would have to be a law enforcement officer.

 

[shootbrownelk]

If it's public land, hunt it. Who's going to complain? As for who can write a ticket for trespassing, that would have to be a law enforcement officer.

Yep, law enforcement officer, deputy sheriff, forest ranger, G&F warden.