State senators Mike McLane (R-Powell Butte) and Anthony Broadman (D-Bend), working with the Oregon Hunters Association, introduced legislation last month to protect Oregonians’ access to public lands through “corner crossing.”
But landowners are battling the bill, saying that it conflicts with “long-standing principles of real property law.”
Corner crossing, or stepping from public land to public land where adjoining corners of public and private lands meet, has been a legal uncertainty in Oregon law. The…