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From Wyoming to Colorado: courts say corner crossing is legal
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From Wyoming to Colorado: courts say corner crossing is legal

By Rachel Gabel | The Fence Post A ruling by a federal appeals court has concluded that a congressional act preempts a state’s power to impose and enforce its own trespass laws. Corner crossing, accessing public land from one piece to another where two parcels meet with two privately owned parcels without stepping foot on privately owned land, is now legal in the 10th Circuit’s six states: Wyoming, Colorado, New Mexico, Utah, Oklahoma and Kansas. A Carbon County, Wyoming, ranch owner sued hunters in 2022 for doing just that, arguing that he owns the airspace above his land, which they passed through to access public land during an elk hunt. The checkerboard pattern dates back to the days of railroad construction in the 1800s, when railroads raced to lay track, thereby laying cla...
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Colorado bill, removing hunting as priority method for wildlife management, fails in House committee
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Colorado bill, removing hunting as priority method for wildlife management, fails in House committee

By Marianne Goodland | Colorado Politics Animal rights groups lost at the ballot box last November in their efforts to ban big-cat hunting and trapping, but the fight was not over, as some lawmakers pushed to remove hunting, trapping and fishing as "primary" methods for "necessary wildlife harvests." The proposal ultimately died in the House Agriculture, Water and Natural Resources Committee on Thursday. Sponsored by Reps. Tammy Story, D-Evergreen, and Elizabeth Velasco, D-Glenwood Springs, House Bill 1258 would replace replace language in one of the statutes governing Colorado Parks and Wildlife to say the state "may" — instead of "shall" — authorize hunting, trapping and fishing and that decision would be "based on best available wildlife and ecological science to benefit wildli...
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Fremont County Commissioners against initiative that would prohibit hunting of mountain lions
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Fremont County Commissioners against initiative that would prohibit hunting of mountain lions

By Carie Canterbury | Canon City Daily Record During Tuesday’s meeting, the Fremont County Board of Commissioners approved a resolution opposing Colorado Ballot Initiative 91, which would prohibit the hunting of mountain lions. The resolution states that “respectful and responsible hunting is a time-honored tradition in Colorado and it is the policy of the state of Colorado that the state’s wildlife and their environment are to be protected, preserved, enhanced, and managed for the use, benefit, and enjoyment of the people of this state and its visitors.” It goes on to read that “an unmanaged population of large predators will inevitably lead to increased human conflict, on both agricultural and residential lands” and “sapient citizens need look no further than the bloody and fin...
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