With decades of experience under his belt, he has created a process using constitutional law and historical documents to fight the BLM and USFS when they close roads, making it impossible to access the public lands that purportedly belong to everyone. More than providing mere legal representation, Beckwith has created a process using historical surveyor plats, archived newspaper stories and photographs, county maps, land deeds, county road maintenance logs, previous petitions to vacate public rights-of-way, and other documentation to build a case for argument against federal road closures.