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<blockquote data-quote="SDMF" data-source="post: 316198" data-attributes="member: 412">The entire &quot;Mountain West&quot; has thousands of tiny strips of private land tied to water rights from the 2nd half of the 1800's.&nbsp; &quot;Tiny Strips&quot; doesn't sound like much, but, those &quot;Tiny Strips&quot; are often the access points to major drainages.During the Homestead act one could tie up 220yds wide X 2Mi long for their &quot;Free&quot; 160Ac.&nbsp; They'd claim the land that had water/creek access and leave the grazing land as public because without access to the water, nobody would move in on them.These are easy to spot on just about every map in any of the mountain west that shows public/private ownership.&nbsp; The valley floors are pretty much all private as they had water and fertile land then folks claimed water rights as narrow as possible for as far as possible up into the canyons to keep other ranchers/farmers out.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="SDMF, post: 316198, member: 412"] The entire "Mountain West" has thousands of tiny strips of private land tied to water rights from the 2nd half of the 1800's. "Tiny Strips" doesn't sound like much, but, those "Tiny Strips" are often the access points to major drainages. During the Homestead act one could tie up 220yds wide X 2Mi long for their "Free" 160Ac. They'd claim the land that had water/creek access and leave the grazing land as public because without access to the water, nobody would move in on them. These are easy to spot on just about every map in any of the mountain west that shows public/private ownership. The valley floors are pretty much all private as they had water and fertile land then folks claimed water rights as narrow as possible for as far as possible up into the canyons to keep other ranchers/farmers out. [/QUOTE]

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