The Montana Stockgrowers Association announced this week that it has joined the Wyoming Stock Growers Association and the Wyoming Wool Growers Association in a petition urging the U.S. Supreme Court to take up a lawsuit that could decide the legality of corner-crossing nationwide. A ruling by the country’s highest court could definitively establish whether members of the recreating public can legally access “corner-locked” land in the West.

The three agricultural groups filed an amicus brief backing the appeal filed by Fred Eshelman, a pharmaceutical executive who has unsuccessfully pursued trespassing charges against four hunters from Missouri who corner-crossed, or stepped from one Bureau of Land Management square-mile section to a kitty-corner section of BLM land during a 2021 elk hunt

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