The U.S. Supreme Court has declined to consider an appeal of a corner-crossing case that’s been closely watched by public land hunters and landowner groups throughout the West.

The court’s decision, codified in an “order list” released on Monday, means corner-crossing remains legal in the 10th Circuit states of Wyoming, Colorado, Utah, Oklahoma, Kansas and New Mexico. Elsewhere in the West, including Montana, which has more than 900,000 acres of “corner-locked” land, corner crossing will continue to exist in a legal gray area.

Corner crossing is the act of stepping from adjoining corners of federal land where alternating sections of public and private land meet. Wyoming has more corner-locked land than any other state in the country, according to an analysis completed by OnX, which produ

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