Access to thousands of acres of state-owned land in Idaho is blocked, report finds

Months after releasing a report detailing the extent of inaccessible federal lands in Idaho, an environmental advocacy group and a technology company have again teamed up to analyze how many acres of state-owned lands are blocked.

The Theodore Roosevelt Conservation Partnership and onX, a GPS hunting app, published a study last week on state-owned land across the West. It found 6.35 million acres of “landlocked” parcels in 11 states, meaning the public land can’t be accessed without permission from a private landowner.