At 02:12 PM 9/27/99 -0400, Kirk Olsen wrote: >On Mon, 27 Sep 1999, Shawn W. Baker wrote: > >> 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. > >This is a great idea. Does anyone know of any groups doing this? > The Nature Conservancy (http://www.tnc.org/ ) does a lot of this kind of thing. But they're not specific to waterfront land. Also their mandate is for wildlife and habitat preservation not recreation. So they've (I guess we - I'm a member) been known to restrict access into sensitive areas. Luke -------------------------------------------------------- Luke Hoffman lhoffman_at_colsa.com COLSA Corporation In the great human comedy, one day we're spectators, the next day we're performers. Garrison Keillor *************************************************************************** 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 - 11:38:08 PDT
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