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Elk Mountain, Wyoming.

Photograph: James Stukenberg

for The New York Times

It’s Public Land. But the Public Can’t Reach It.

A navigation app

that illuminates public land within privately held property

has supercharged the question of who gets to go where.

Elk Mountain in Wyoming is at the center of a legal dispute

over access to public land that’s surrounded by a private ranch.

NYT

Nov. 26, 2022    Updated 9:50 a.m. ET

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/11/26/
business/hunting-wyoming-elk-mountain-access.html

mountain        USA

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/11/26/
business/hunting-wyoming-elk-mountain-access.html

peak

mountain        UK

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/mountains

Pakistan > K2 mountain in Pakistan        UK

http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/jul/30/
new-zealander-mountaineers-feared-dead-k2

mountaineer        UK

http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/nov/23/
mallory-body-everest-secret-frank-smythe

http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/jul/30/
new-zealander-mountaineers-feared-dead-k2

New York's Adirondack Mountains > Quebec Brook,

a winding boreal river in the middle of nowhere.        USA

https://www.npr.org/2021/09/26/
1040792932/reporters-notebook-fall-on-the-adirondack-river

lakes > lake Tahoe      USA

set in a mountain-ringed bowl 6,225 feet

atop the Sierra Nevada

(...)

straddling the California-Nevada border

https://www.nytimes.com/2013/10/07/
us/a-balancing-act-around-lake-tahoe.html 

https://www.nytimes.com/2013/10/07/
us/a-balancing-act-around-lake-tahoe.html

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/08/05/us/
lifting-ban-toledo-says-its-water-is-safe-to-drink-again.html 

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/10/07/us/
a-balancing-act-around-lake-tahoe.html

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