Corner Crossing latest

[manitou1]

Yeah, I had the unfortunate task of informing a landowner that he had built his brand-new fence to a witness corner and was 100 ft. on to public land. People never seem take that kind of news without wanting to fight.

Been there… except this guy built on another’s private land by 100’.

 

[Forkyfinder]

I would encourage people to go look for corners and to also read the bold part twice.

For the most part, the interior of a standard section is pretty cut and dry. But there are certain cases where there are correction lines, witness corners, reference monuments, closing corners etc where the untrained member of the general public could end up in hot water.

Wonder if you could help put together an rfp?

I think itd be great to send to orgs and local hunter groups (or bigger ones) to send out to local survey companies - pay for the survey and get a monument on some of the critical corners.

 

[seeth07]

Wonder if you could help put together an rfp?

I think itd be great to send to orgs and local hunter groups (or bigger ones) to send out to local survey companies - pay for the survey and get a monument on some of the critical corners.

Serious question: Why would hunters want to spend money to make it easier for lazy folks when the number one complaint about public land hunting is too much hunting pressure?

I'd rather leave them less obvious if they are and reward the folks that know how to read land surveys to locate and properly cross at them

 

[Forkyfinder]

Serious question: Why would hunters want to spend money to make it easier for lazy folks when the number one complaint about public land hunting is too much hunting pressure?

I'd rather leave them less obvious if they are and reward the folks that know how to read land surveys to locate and properly cross at them

I simply feel overall growing access to public land for public hunters is good. Independent if they know how to read and locate survey plats.

I do get what you mean, though. To me - normalizing corner crossing with max legitimacy will be long term better for land swaps, public land access agreements, and winning in courts if need be.

 

[seeth07]

long term better for land swaps,

Land swaps already typically didn't get a whole lot of public support. Now as long as there is some access to any of the public in the swap, it should be a very hard stance of disapproval from the public. Checkerboard and broken up land ownership actually really helps with hunting pressure as it creates just pockets of pressure and pockets of sanctuary for game.

The only land swaps that the public should be on board with are swaps involving inaccessible public lands due to being landlocked but who are we kidding - what incentive would a landowner have to do that when they get the benefits of that parcel to themselves?

 

[gouch]

I would encourage people to go look for corners and to also read the bold part twice.

For the most part, the interior of a standard section is pretty cut and dry. But there are certain cases where there are correction lines, witness corners, reference monuments, closing corners etc where the untrained member of the general public could end up in hot water.

Absolutely, you need to know what corner you are looking for and what it looks like on the ground.

 

[Wrong Burgundy]

Honk when you see my new bumper sticker around town....

 

[Wrong Burgundy]

Average fence height: 48"
Drywall painting stilts: 50" to 64"....the Koch brothers are going to hate me this fall.

 

[Straight Arrow]

If only some sort of device existed to help step over fences easily, that would be...

Fences have been in existence throughout for over a hundred years. How have you crossed them previously ... or just turned around, afeared of fence crossing?
I've crossed many fences ... and have the torn high-dollar hunting pants to prove it!