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When the solar eclipse happened a few years ago, my friend used the geo data from their company to compute BLM land which overlapped with the "path of totality"
by adamwong246 4y ago
When the solar eclipse happened a few years ago, my friend used the geo data from their company to compute BLM land which overlapped with the "path of totality", so that we could find a free camping spot from which we could experience the solar eclipse at it's most impressive. One of the constraints on his search was that the land also needed to be accessible from a public road, because the natives take these land rights very very seriously.
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- xyzzyz 4y ago> because the natives take these land rights very very seriously. This is likely because if they stop enforcing them, they can lose it. If they allow people access as a matter of course, after some time in many places this will create a public right to access, which they can no longer restrict. This creates a real, material loss to landowners.