> 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. :>) River navigation is yet one other area that will be different from state to state. Some rivers are publicly navigable, others, especially smaller, shallower ones, are not, and are simply considered features of the private land that they are on. For Texas at least, the test is something like 30ft across, continuous from its termination, measured at the high water mark. Richard Walker Houston, TX http://www.neosoft.com/~rww/kayak_log.html *************************************************************************** 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 - 10:37:15 PDT
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