CHEYENNE – The ongoing conversations concerning corner crossing in Wyoming continued Tuesday as a state legislative committee narrowly voted to continue pursuing a bill to decriminalize it.

The corners in question refer to the intersection of publicly and privately owned lands, and whether members of the public, often hunters, fishers and hikers, are allowed to cross diagonally between public lands at their intersection with private property.

Discussions around this topic heated up in 2021 when a group of four Missouri hunters were sued by a ranch owner in Carbon County for corner crossing between public lands that intersected with his property. He alleged more than $7 million in damages and appealed the initial court decision.

Some members of the Wyoming Legislature's Joint Travel, Rec

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