What are your thoughts on “checker boarding” in Wyoming and most other western states? Do you have any publicly owned land that is “locked” by your property?
For those who don’t know, landowners will sell and/or purchase adjacent land plots to their own property essentially locking off land owned by the state, BLM, national forest. This creates a “checker board” effect which locks off that publicly owned land from access by the public. The adjacent land owner is able to gain access for grazing, hunting, etc, without actually owning it.
Full disclosure... I’m a guy who primarily uses public land for hunting, fishing, camping, and the like.
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What are your thoughts on “checker boarding” in Wyoming and most other western states? Do you have any publicly owned land that is “locked” by your property?
For those who don’t know, landowners will sell and/or purchase adjacent land plots to their own property essentially locking off land owned by the state, BLM, national forest. This creates a “checker board” effect which locks off that publicly owned land from access by the public. The adjacent land owner is able to gain access for grazing, hunting, etc, without actually owning it.
Full disclosure... I’m a guy who primarily uses public land for hunting, fishing, camping, and the like.
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