MTN has had several viewers reach out, wondering how the U.S. Supreme Court’s action on a Wyoming corner crossing case might impact Montana. It’s a complicated topic, so first, let’s explain what corner crossing is before we get into the court case.

Montana has more than 30 million acres of public land, although more than 800,000 acres of that are locked behind private land ownership.

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Much of it is the legacy of the 1800s, when Congress approved railroad land grants that gave rail companies half of the land around railroad tracks in a checkerboard pattern, with the other half retained by the government.

Corner crossing is the act of stepping from adjoining corners of public land without stepping o

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