deer hunting in the ruby mountains
02-11-2014, 10:06 AM
#1
Spike
Thread Starter
Join Date: Feb 2014
Posts: 21
deer hunting in the ruby mountains
I hunt the ruby mountains every year you can only hunt certain parts because the ranches have got most of it blocked off it is BLM land behind them they have blocked off BLM land how can they get away with it
02-11-2014, 06:37 PM
#3
Giant Nontypical
Join Date: Jan 2011
Location: Allegan, MI
Posts: 8,019
***LOL, that's good one! Actually there are millon of acres of landlocked public lands all over the western states and unless you get access through the private lands you are screwed! The landowners basicly have all that land at their disposal like it's their own property. Many even think they own the accessible public land just because they pay for the grazing rights, so if you don't know your rights they may try to bluff you into leaving. That's where the GPS landowner chips really come in handy.
02-12-2014, 04:22 AM
#4
Typical Buck
Join Date: Jul 2011
Location: North Central Illinois
Posts: 848
Some of it goes back to railroad land grants when the federal government was trying to encourage settlement of the west in the 1800s.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Checkerboarding_(land)
Land out west was plentiful and was not at a premium until recently, as the population grows and more people want to use public land and it becomes more and more crowded, it would not surprise me to see the government (state, federal, or local) work to provide access to bigger sections of public land by negotiating easements (backed up by the threat of eminent domain). Historically, that has happened in the east more with water access.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Checkerboarding_(land)
Land out west was plentiful and was not at a premium until recently, as the population grows and more people want to use public land and it becomes more and more crowded, it would not surprise me to see the government (state, federal, or local) work to provide access to bigger sections of public land by negotiating easements (backed up by the threat of eminent domain). Historically, that has happened in the east more with water access.
02-27-2014, 09:29 PM
#6
Fork Horn
Join Date: Sep 2006
Location: Montana
Posts: 309
I watched a tv show where a guy had a helicopter drop him and his son off on some BLM ground that was inaccessible due to being surrounded by private land. They both killed nice 6-Point bulls. He said the cost was more reasonable than you'd think... I'd rather pay for a helicopter than pay a landowner an access fee to land we should have a right to hunt....
