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The Tenth Circuit Court of Appeals will hear a case on May 14 out of Wyoming that could clarify whether corner crossing is legal or a form of trespass.

Corner crossing is a practice of stepping from one parcel of public land to another over a common corner shared with private property.

The case looks at an incident in 2021 near Elk Mountain, when a group of hunters from Missouri used a ladder footed in two public tracts to climb over the adjacent property’s fence posts to access Bureau of Land Management land.

The landowner argued this violated his private airspace and sued them, unsuccessfully so far. The Tenth Circuit Court is scheduled to hold a hearing on his appeal at 9 a.m. Tuesday at the Byron White Courthouse in Denver.

Separately, a jury found the hunters not guilty of criminal trespass in 2022.

The case has implications for access to roughly eight million acres of public land in the West that are otherwise “corner locked,” according to the mapping app On X.