02-15-2013, 02:15 AM
This whole bill is bs, 6 foot 10 foot what does it matter. If you were a land owner you would be singing a different tune. If the water way was navigable by boat, float tube ect. year round I could see the concern. Or if land owners were diverting the water causing the public waters to be parched. This is not the case. All this argument boils down to is recreation and people being granted access to places they would not get without Uncle Sam stepping on and giving it to them. When legislation like this goes through those in favor feel like they've won, possibly in the short term, but remember, every time rights are "legally" taken from others you too loose those same rights individually. None of the bill talks singularly about fishing or kayaking or boating. It's all about river bed access by foot from a public access. I still don't know why the 6 foot log floating matters. Most land owners I know would give permission and enjoy watching someone try to get through their land floating on a six foot log sideways. Nobody is stealing your water, just hindering your fun, that they by the way own, not the water, but the ground to the left right and below the water. Maybe you guys should be demanding that the government figure out a way to controll the fish to keep them in the public access areas of the river, might work maybe some signs? They do it with deer, problem is the deer can't read them.
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