Few things are more valuable to a farmer in the west than water, and when there’s not enough to go around, tempers can flare over water rights.

In rural Nevada, a shrinking aquifer forced one ranching community to grapple with water scarcity in a real way. And it's not just water that can lead to fights in the west, fence lines and getting access to public lands is also a volatile subject.

Some people are using a practice known as corner crossing to get across private property on their way to public land and it’s causing controversy.

The Mountain West News Bureau’s Kaleb Roedel and Will Walkey report.