With millions of acres of public land in Wyoming surrounded by private property, or landlocked, some hunters have decided the only way to get there is by hiring pilots to fly them in.

It could become the next flashpoint in tensions over hunter access. Hunters say it isn’t right for landowners to treat landlocked public parcels as extensions of their property.

And so, as they see it, there’s nothing wrong with taking to the air to access land, and game animals that belong to them, as public trusts.

That could put them at odds with ranchers who claim that noisy chopper flights disrupt their daily operations. Or, with outfitters who have for years had trespass fee arrangements with landowners.

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