While Wyoming legislators, and potentially the U.S. Supreme Court, try to determine the legality of hopping between adjoining corners of public land parcels, hunters in Wyoming will probably do it anyway.

Hunters might take a federal court decision this spring — apparently in favor of corner-crossing — as a green light to do it, Wyoming Game and Fish Chief Game Warden Dan Smith told a state legislative committee on Tuesday.

“I expect that there will be more sportspeople using that decision to try to go out” and corner-cross, Smith said.

Sabrina King, spokeswoman for the Wyoming chapter of Backcountry Hunters and Anglers, had a similar message for the Legislature’s Joint Travel, Recreation, Wildlife and Cultural Resources Committee.

“As of right now, we’re headed into hunting season,” K

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