Serving Southern Jefferson County in the Great State of Montana
Serving Southern Jefferson County in the Great State of Montana
The brass cap corner marker installed by surveyors is visible in this photo of a short fence erected by Elk Mountain Ranch to deter hunters and others from entering BLM land. The photo was included in legal filings associated with a civil trespassing case.
A federal three-judge panel has sided with a group of hunters who faced civil trespassing charges stemming from elk-hunting excursions into "checkerboard" land in Carbon County, Wyoming.
The hunters in question crossed from one Bureau of Land Management section to another on multiple occasions in 2020 and 2021. In the process, they raised the ire of Fred Eshelman, a pharmaceutical executive whose Elk Mountain Ranch holdings span 50 miles of southeastern Wyoming, much of it in areas where public and private land is interspersed in a checkerboard pattern.
After failing to secure criminal trespas...
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