Does the GET follow a legal route, located on public lands and/or easements?
Anyone who’s hiked in the West away from the popular trails knows how easy it can be to stray onto private property. Not in the “eastern” sense of that term, with homes, cars, barking dogs, and security alarms. Rather, in the inimitable Western sense, where private property in remote lands is synonymous with the sprawling cattle ranch, acres if not miles wide, and largely empty of life (except, perhaps, for the bovine form). Actually, these ranching and grazing properties are often not much different from the surrounding public lands, and often support healthy biotic communities of their own. And the lone ranch house may be miles away from the farthest property line. Nevertheless, private land is private land, and every effort should be made to keep to the public side of the fence. Or to seek permission to cross said lands before actually jumping fence. Not every strand of barbed wire demarcates a boundary with private land, of course. Cattle grazing also occurs with great frequency on
Anyone who’s hiked in the West away from the popular trails knows how easy it can be to stray onto private property. Not in the “eastern” sense of that term, with homes, cars, barking dogs, and security alarms. Rather, in the inimitable Western sense, where private property in remote lands is synonymous with the sprawling cattle ranch, acres if not miles wide, and largely empty of life (except, perhaps, for the bovine form). Actually, these ranching and grazing properties are often not much different from the surrounding public lands, and often support healthy biotic communities of their own. And the lone ranch house may be miles away from the farthest property line. Nevertheless, private land is private land, and every effort should be made to keep to the public side of the fence. Or to seek permission to cross said lands before actually jumping fence. Not every strand of barbed wire demarcates a boundary with private land, of course. Cattle grazing also occurs with great frequency on
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