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2005 General Session
SF 128 would have explicitly prohibited anyone from “corner jumping” to take wildlife (i.e., hunt or fish) without permission of the adjacent landowners. Corner jumping describes the practice of stepping over the corner created where four sections of land meet. When accurately conducted, a person can step from public land to public land across corners of adjacent private land without actually stepping on the private land. SF 128 would have given the Wyoming Game and Fish Department (WGFD) authority to ticket people for corner jumping to hunt, fish or trap.
Supporters of SF 128 included mainly the agriculture community. They argued that ranchers and landowners don’t like corner jumping, and that the WGFD should have the authority to issue citations for the practice.
Opponents included sportsmen, labor groups and wildlife groups. They objected to loss of access to public land, and maintained that the legal and public access questions surrounding this issue are complex and should be studied and widely discussed by public land users before any legislative action is considered.
SF 128 failed without a vote in the Senate Travel, Recreation, Wildlife and Cultural Resources Committee, when Senator Stan Cooper (R-S14, Kemmerer) did not get a second for his motion to pass the bill out of committee.