I get a kick out of "public land owner" types.
You dont have any rights to that land. Just go ask some overzealous BLM or Reclamation type.
A guy I used to hunt with was one of those "my public lands" types (an uber liberal BHA supporter) from Idaho. Every time he'd start up with the "I'm a public land owner" diatribes I'd let him vent then remind him that I'm a lawyer and I'd like to see the deed to public lands he claims to own and ownership is legally defined as the exclusive right to control the thing owned, which is at odds with the notion of public lands. One day, I had had enough of his crap and told him that I was also a public land owner and since I paid more taxes than he did, I get first rights to any animals. That was the last time I talked to him.
