This is easily solved by placing a 'travel easement' on the edge of parcels for the purpose of providing public access to public property. Can't trespass if there's an easement....
The original intent of the checkerboard pattern was surely not to prohibit access to public grounds.....the federal government wanted those lands to be homesteaded/settled after all. That in itself, to me, would seem to support an implied easement/access to those parcels.
The landowners are going to screw around and end up policies dictated by the courts that they really hate....
The original intent of the checkerboard pattern was surely not to prohibit access to public grounds.....the federal government wanted those lands to be homesteaded/settled after all. That in itself, to me, would seem to support an implied easement/access to those parcels.
The landowners are going to screw around and end up policies dictated by the courts that they really hate....