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Old 12-17-2016 | 07:02 PM
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Topgun 3006
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Originally Posted by Ridge Runner
exactly! here on a 4 way corner (where 4 properties join) there is a 5/8's" rebar drove in the ground, it is capped with a plastic cap bearing the surveyors name and number, actually on every turn in a surveyed line, even if its one degree, there is a capped rebar, or other marking such as a planted stone.
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That may well be the case in WV and some other states. I know there is exactly as you described on the sw corner of the 20 acres I own up in northern MI where three other property corners adjoin mine. However, it's not that way in Wyoming and a lot of the other western states. Even if there was at every spot where that occurs and you can find that spot to cross from one piece of public ground to the other there is court precedence regarding air space and that's how the ranchers can get away with keeping you from corner crossing if they are in a county in Wyoming where the County Sheriff and Prosecutor will honor that ruling. As I stated earlier in this thread, the WY G&F lost a case on corner crossing and ever since then they are not taking a chance on writing a ticket and losing the case if it went to court. However, a lot of the County Sheriffs and Prosecutors out there are in elected positions and are "beholden" to the ranchers in their area if you get my drift. That is why I stated that this entire lack of public land access, whether it be where corner crossing comes in or where the public land is completely surrounded by private property, needs to be rectified by laws that specifically allow corner crossing and something also needs to be done to gain access across any private property that prevents the public from accessing their land and it's millions of acres out west.
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