The point of this case is that there was a public highway right of way (trail) through there from as far back as 1920s. When the federal government surveyed and patented the homestead, they made an error and didn't show the existing trail on the homestead survey. Tons of homestead surveys from that time frame (1950's) had the existing trails/roads in them with a reservation of valid existing right of ways. Incompetence on part of the BLM is the root cause of this long litigation.