Corner Crossing: Wyoming case poses more questions than answers for Montana hunters

<p>A recent federal court ruling in Wyoming has once again sparked discussions about the legality of corner crossing.</p> <p>I want you to visualize a checkerboard. A grid of black and white squares.</p> <p>Now imagine that layout on a map, where the black squares are public land and the white ones are private. This land ownership layout is common in the west, a relic of past when the government was divvying out land to railroads pushing lines west.</p> <p>Corner crossing refers to the act of traveling from one piece of that public checkerboard to another, by crossing where they meet in the corners. </p> <p>In the recent Wyoming case, a judge found that four Missouri men did not trespass onto adjoining private land as they stepped from public to public land at a corner designated by a survey marker and using a ladder. </p> <p>Brett French, Outdoors editor at the Billings Gazette, is here to untangle the issue and give a bit of context as to what this mean for Montana</p><p>See <a href="https://omnystudio.com/listener">omnystudio.com/listener</a> for privacy information.</p>