R. Walker wrote: the US is made up of 50 very unique, and mostly > sovereign governments. Most all laws, criminal and civil, are state laws. > Land ownership is one of these. So in one state you might be able to own > all the beach all the way down to the low tide mark; where in another state, > the beach is a public right of way as open for public use as any highway. > >SNIP< I was told by a NM game warden once, as I unloaded my kayak, that I had been trespassing on private property. I told him that I hadn't hiked on any of the private land, and had spent the night on a BLM piece along the way. He informed me that the river flowing through private land didn't give right of way, because it wasn't a naviable river(even tho I had just came down it), and he explained that just standing on the bottom was criminal trespass. So much for public beaches. :>) James *************************************************************************** PaddleWise Paddling Mailing List Submissions: paddlewise_at_lists.intelenet.net Subscriptions: paddlewise-request_at_lists.intelenet.net Website: http://www.paddlewise.net/ ***************************************************************************Received on Tue Sep 28 1999 - 09:21:00 PDT
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