Rather awkwardly (for your point) this isn't an issue of "them" blocking your access to your property, it's instances of "them" denying your crossing of "their property" and incidentally blocking your access to land you don't own.
FWiW I'm on the side of freedom to roam and implicit RoW (Right of Way) access to public land .. but it's not that clearcut in various US states.
Arguably public land is land that belongs to all of us, collectively. It is only land you "don't own" in the sense of land that you don't privately have exclusive title to.
It's actually pretty settled that you can walk on and hunt on this land. Yes, that includes Australian citizens here legally under one of many frameworks. The question is entirely if it's trespassing to cross into it.
The question is actually pretty limited to: is it trespassing for part of your body to pass over a corner of private land?
Just for the record I think its ridiculous, and I would love to see the legislature pass a law allowing people the right to cross the most direct route across private property that is blocking access to public property. I wish for once that the rich and powerful would get something like this to backfire.
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Rather awkwardly (for your point) this isn't an issue of "them" blocking your access to your property, it's instances of "them" denying your crossing of "their property" and incidentally blocking your access to land you don't own.
FWiW I'm on the side of freedom to roam and implicit RoW (Right of Way) access to public land .. but it's not that clearcut in various US states.
Arguably public land is land that belongs to all of us, collectively. It is only land you "don't own" in the sense of land that you don't privately have exclusive title to.
I'm Australian, does US public land also belon to me?
Does US law garantee the right for any member of the US public to walk, spoil, graze cattle, etc. on any undeeded land?
If so, does that law also grant the right of access across land owned by others?
The very reason that these corner cases are unresolved is because there is no clear answer here (yet).
It's actually pretty settled that you can walk on and hunt on this land. Yes, that includes Australian citizens here legally under one of many frameworks. The question is entirely if it's trespassing to cross into it.
The question is actually pretty limited to: is it trespassing for part of your body to pass over a corner of private land?
Just for the record I think its ridiculous, and I would love to see the legislature pass a law allowing people the right to cross the most direct route across private property that is blocking access to public property. I wish for once that the rich and powerful would get something like this to backfire.
No one's talking about someone blocking my access to someone else's private property.
We're talking about someone blocking access to another, corner-adjacent parcel of my land.
Also your land, if you're a US citizen. That's land we do own.