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<blockquote data-quote="seattleman1969" data-source="post: 1592033" data-attributes="member: 84285"><p>I live in Montana and I have had this very discussion with several Fish and Game as well as County officers. Long story short, don't get into it with the Rancher, call the authorities if you are sure. If you are using OnX they will nearly always fall on your side. I have a property I am going to work on getting access to this summer as an adjacent owner has no trespassing signs up but OnX clearly shows it's a mix of Forest Service, State, and BLM land and it is chock full of nice whitetail deer. But I am not going to just charge in, I am going to get a ruling from Fish and Game first. Then the adjacent landowner cannot do a thing...</p><p></p><p>Even if the public land is leased, as long as you do not have to cross a property line to get to it, you cannot be restricted access. But the way property lines usually run makes it difficult to get to a lot of public land as Montana access laws to not allow "Corner jumping", meaning, if two public properties touch at a corner you cannot use that corner to enter a "landlocked" property. This access problem is being worked on and RMEF has been doing a decent job in Montana of purchasing corridors of land to provide public access to public lands.</p><p></p><p>Another way to access landlocked public is through waterways. Buy some lightweight waders and hike the streambed, you cannot be restricted access there either not matter how many fences a rancher runs across waterway!</p><p></p><p>If a rancher has adjoining land and has his pivot or fence over the line onto the public land, he still cannot keep you off of it. At the end of the day though it boils down to how much hunting time do you want to spend disputing access VS hunting?</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="seattleman1969, post: 1592033, member: 84285"] I live in Montana and I have had this very discussion with several Fish and Game as well as County officers. Long story short, don't get into it with the Rancher, call the authorities if you are sure. If you are using OnX they will nearly always fall on your side. I have a property I am going to work on getting access to this summer as an adjacent owner has no trespassing signs up but OnX clearly shows it's a mix of Forest Service, State, and BLM land and it is chock full of nice whitetail deer. But I am not going to just charge in, I am going to get a ruling from Fish and Game first. Then the adjacent landowner cannot do a thing... Even if the public land is leased, as long as you do not have to cross a property line to get to it, you cannot be restricted access. But the way property lines usually run makes it difficult to get to a lot of public land as Montana access laws to not allow "Corner jumping", meaning, if two public properties touch at a corner you cannot use that corner to enter a "landlocked" property. This access problem is being worked on and RMEF has been doing a decent job in Montana of purchasing corridors of land to provide public access to public lands. Another way to access landlocked public is through waterways. Buy some lightweight waders and hike the streambed, you cannot be restricted access there either not matter how many fences a rancher runs across waterway! If a rancher has adjoining land and has his pivot or fence over the line onto the public land, he still cannot keep you off of it. At the end of the day though it boils down to how much hunting time do you want to spend disputing access VS hunting? [/QUOTE]
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