Thomas Unger <unger_at_tumtum.com> wrote: >I was just up in the San Juans and had a generally uneasy feeling about private control of such beautiful land. On the other hand, I could see how folks up there might quickly get tired of tourists taking liberties of their private land. None the less, when the revolution comes we should go up there and make all beaches public land for 100 yards back from high tide. < Hmmm...it strikes me there's something in that. (Making public 100 yds back from beaches--not the revolution) Of course, almost all the land in question is privately owned, so it would take a revolution. Too bad it wasn't set up that way when the land was deeded. There are lakes here in Montana that have all public beaches--it's like a big public Boulevard--pretty nice, IMHO. >Too bad WWT hasn't been able to create more camp sites, but I'm not surprised. The only way to accomodate more people is to make more places for them to camp. If we can't do that then we can't accomodate more people. I just saw a great web site about that: http://www.vhemt.org/< Perhaps an organization could be set up to purchase private land as it comes up for sale, subdivide off the near-beach portion, and sell the remaining land to another private landowner, with the understanding that the foreshore area is to be accessible to the public, but they're permitted (as public citizens) to utilize it too. Shawn 0 ____©/______ ~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^\ ,/ /~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^ 0 *************************************************************************** PaddleWise Paddling Mailing List Submissions: paddlewise_at_lists.intelenet.net Subscriptions: paddlewise-request_at_lists.intelenet.net Website: http://www.paddlewise.net/ ***************************************************************************Received on Mon Sep 27 1999 - 09:55:16 PDT
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