Cheers to him and the court! Waterways are public and it is absurd that property owners get to lock out public. This really is great news and does not infringe upon the private owners, they dry property is still theirs. This is not different that people claiming to own an ocean beach to lock out people walking along the coast.
I moved several years ago to the north side of Adirondacks and was quickly disappointed and happily moved because it is almost all locked off, fenced, and you cannot access and use what is otherwise public property. No different than here in Nevada, which happily is mostly public land, yet some private owners try to block off public access to it so they have private use of the public land. Shame on them.
Good for the courts to take a step to reverse this private grab of public lands.
New York State has thousands of miles of navigable waterways. You can paddle from New York City to the Great Lakes and beyond. That’s not enough?
What about people who have livestock on their land and don’t want them wandering downstream?
Yep - just ignore them dang laws that disagree with what you want to do! (Sounds like Barack)
Public land?
Not at all.
It’s government land.
In your state, 84.5% owned by the federal government.
The reason the fed gov wants to own land is to make it inaccessible to citizens via laws. The EPA loves it.
BTW in California if you have a home on the beach, the land is yours but only to the high tide mark.
I’d rather the citizens owned most of the land, not the feds.
I trust American citizens much more than I trust the feds, YMMV.
Just wait until they close off access to THEIR land.
You wanna join this conversation about water and travel/uses/ownership thereof from a western experience?