Wyoming Corner Cross: landowner claims Millions in damages

[LDennis24]

Piss on the ranch and the DA

What does the DA have to do with this? The criminal trial is over and done.

Right! Just people who don't have what this guy has being overly emotional about an issue that the DA stated in court filings that her decision is based on a long-held policy. “The idea that corner crossing is illegal…has been a consistent policy of the Carbon County Attorney’s office at least since 2008,” County and Prosecuting Attorney Ashley Mayfield Davis wrote. If they weren't hunters and were ANTIFA members going camping instead I get the feeling people wouldn't be as interested.

[trophyhunt]

Did the hunters harvest anything, just curious.

[Knocker of rocks]

Because all I hear about this is that this man who has clearly worked hard for what he has and donated something like a million dollars to medical research, research that possibly saved countless lives, maybe even children with diseases, who knows. Is suddenly a bad guy because he has more money than other people, even though he clearly put the effort in to earn it, and is a jerk for something that the federal government did by creating a checkerboard of public land. Seems like everyone should be mad at the government not the guy who bought land with his hard earned money.

Claiming he lost enjoyment of his land to the tune of millions because somebody invaded his portion of a 3’ square?

[MountainWalk]

@knocker of rocks-

Article says carbon county da or ada filed the charges. So yes, piss on him.

[pickardjw]

Did the hunters harvest anything, just curious.

If I remember correctly from when they were on the Meateater podcast, they harvested a bull/bulls in 2020 and two bulls in 2021

[trophyhunt]

Did the hunters harvest anything, just curious.

If I remember correctly from when they were on the Meateater podcast, they harvested a bull/bulls in 2020 and two bulls in 2021

So I also wonder if that spot is getting hit hard now by other hunters who can't seem to find their own spots?  Since the case was thrown out, what is to stop people now from crossing and using the public land?

[fireweed]

My first thought at the damages claim (3-7 million) was to scare away the hunters and force them to settle.  On the other hand, the only way he is justifying this number is to basically claim "ownership" in the landlocked BLM land.  His ranch's value is higher because of the assumption that he gets exclusive use of any inholdings vs. if those inholding are not his personal playground.  This could work against him in court.
  He is saying, yes, my personal ranch is more valuable if I get exclusive use of all this public land, too.

Reading the comments on the wyofile article is a real eye opener for a jury trial

[Knocker of rocks]

@knocker of rocks-

Article says carbon county da or ada filed the charges. So yes, piss on him.

That is true, but that portion is over and done with.

[actionshooter]

Because all I hear about this is that this man who has clearly worked hard for what he has and donated something like a million dollars to medical research, research that possibly saved countless lives, maybe even children with diseases, who knows. Is suddenly a bad guy because he has more money than other people, even though he clearly put the effort in to earn it, and is a jerk for something that the federal government did by creating a checkerboard of public land. Seems like everyone should be mad at the government not the guy who bought land with his hard earned money.

I don't care if this guy is Gandhi himself... if he wins, he will set the path to keep us (public landowners) off of 16 million acres of OUR land around the country.... we can be mad at the gov for creating this mess, but it was 150 years ago.... so that kinda reminds me of all this talk about slave reparations.. can you really blame someone now for what happened over a 150 years ago? 

[LDennis24]

Because all I hear about this is that this man who has clearly worked hard for what he has and donated something like a million dollars to medical research, research that possibly saved countless lives, maybe even children with diseases, who knows. Is suddenly a bad guy because he has more money than other people, even though he clearly put the effort in to earn it, and is a jerk for something that the federal government did by creating a checkerboard of public land. Seems like everyone should be mad at the government not the guy who bought land with his hard earned money.

I don't care if this guy is Gandhi himself... if he wins, he will set the path to keep us (public landowners) off of 16 million acres of OUR land around the country.... we can be mad at the gov for creating this mess, but it was 150 years ago.... so that kinda reminds me of all this talk about slave reparations.. can you really blame someone now for what happened over a 150 years ago?

No you're right, you can't blame him for what the government did 150 yrs ago. So why are people blaming the guy who didn't create the checkerboard ownership for access issues?

[Knocker of rocks]

You can blame him for claiming he is losing the use and enjoyment of his land to the sum of 25% of its value when in fact he is being asked to share the use of either 4.5 or 2.25 square feet of his property, or about 0.00005% of his land.

[dewandgin]

You can blame him for claiming he is losing the use and enjoyment of his land to the sum of 25% of its value when in fact he is being asked to share the use of either 4.5 or 2.25 square feet of his property, or about 0.00005% of his land.

[Dan-o]

Because all I hear about this is that this man who has clearly worked hard for what he has and donated something like a million dollars to medical research, research that possibly saved countless lives, maybe even children with diseases, who knows. Is suddenly a bad guy because he has more money than other people, even though he clearly put the effort in to earn it, and is a jerk for something that the federal government did by creating a checkerboard of public land. Seems like everyone should be mad at the government not the guy who bought land with his hard earned money.

I don't care if this guy is Gandhi himself... if he wins, he will set the path to keep us (public landowners) off of 16 million acres of OUR land around the country.... we can be mad at the gov for creating this mess, but it was 150 years ago.... so that kinda reminds me of all this talk about slave reparations.. can you really blame someone now for what happened over a 150 years ago?

No you're right, you can't blame him for what the government did 150 yrs ago. So why are people blaming the guy who didn't create the checkerboard ownership for access issues?

Because he is aggressively trying to keep people off of public land so that he and only he will profit from that public land.

[Platensek-po]

He can donate 1million to charity but cant let guys cross a fence on a ladder to access public land? My god hand this man a medal. He made a donation, most likely for tax purposes, and suddenly he is the greatest man on earth? This guy is literally claiming that the public accessing public land is hurting him so he owed to the tune of
Millions. From taxpayers like you and me. His claims are bs and he is throwing money at this so he can essentially purchase public land for nothing. Cause if this is upheld he will be sole beneficiary of that land that belongs to everyone. He is no dummy I’ll give him that.

[LDennis24]

There are a lot of people who solely benefit financially from public land. It's a right they have earned through purchasing mining claims or lease agreements for agriculture or grazing etc. So why aren't you guys going after the USDA for allowing someone to profit off of your precious public land? One person profiting off of public land when nobody else is making money from it literally happens across this entire country. Your only saying this because it's a hunting issue or what?