FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:   May 22, 2025     Contact:   media@backcountryhunters.org    Backcountry Hunters & Anglers Stands by its Position: Corner Crossing is NOT a Crime  Iron Bar Holdings Petitions U.S. Supreme Court to Review Corner Crossing Ruling    WASHINGTON, D.C. — Backcountry Hunters & Anglers (BHA), North America’s leading public lands advocacy group, is responding today to news that Iron Bar Holdings, LLC will petition the U.S. Supreme Court to review the landmark corner crossing ...

On August 25, 2004, the Wyoming Attorney General’s office issued an opinion that corner crossing does not violate the state’s “hunter trespass” law. On April 29, 2022, after less than two hours of deliberation, a Carbon County jury found four Missouri hunters not guilty of Wyoming’s criminal trespass law for corner crossing to access public land to harvest elk. The reality is: in Wyoming, no hunter has ever been found guilty of criminal trespass by a jury of their peers for corner ...

Welcome to the Spring/Summer 2022 edition of the Wyoming Roundup! The Wyoming BHA Chapter Leadership Team (WLT) – along with you, our members – has been hard at work since our previous edition that was sent out in March. If you’re a new member or recently updated your contact information and missed the Winter/Spring 2022 edition, you can check it out here. Our next quarterly review will land in your inboxes in September, so be sure to also keep a close eye on our chapter ...

This hunting season four hunters were cited for criminal trespass in Carbon County, Wyoming for corner crossing. They have pleaded "not guilty" and currently this case is pending. Corner crossing is a legal grey area that stems from the public's desire to access their public land by stepping from one corner of public to another. We believe this act does not violate law or cause any negative impacts to private landowners and their use of their property. These four hunters took every ...