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What a bizarre situation. It seems rather pointless for land to be public when it's not accessible by the public. Banning access to that land because of such a corner case seems quite unreasonable. But I also question why this checkerboard pattern was used to often when there was no rule to allow public access to the public lands between them. I've got to assume that such access must have been implicit.

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Milli/Billis already use this to try to block public beaches as well - you get miles and miles of pristine beach access that the above-law money hoarders try to block access to.

And when they're called out on it? SLAPP type suits.

This is all about slapping down those who think money can alleviate law.

Public land doesn’t always mean land open to the public. In this case, we’re talking about recreational public land, but there are other types of public land where public use isn’t a factor.

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