04-12-2015, 03:27 AM
Whoohoo! is right, this was a good test case and the win is something positive for all Utah recreationists. This ruling should lead to being able to access the Weber at any public point and then to stay within the high water mark while fishing, floating or recreating.
This is the first in several court battles, USAC needs donations of what ever you can give, become a member and give if you can. They are fighting to give us access to the places that we have always supposed to have access to. That is every river or stream that was used before or after statehood as a means to float a 6" round, 8' long log or other cargo.
Hopefully this will make the Provo case easier to win and from there maybe get the courts to overturn the part of the law enacted by the legislature after Conatser v Johnson's supreme court ruling, that requires each part of each stream or river to be challenged individually. With that a survey of historical records around the state to find any river or stream that had several years of log drives and they are open too.
I would that includes about every sizeable river or stream in the state.
Remember, this is not taking, this is establishing that title to the land beneath the water was transferred to the ownership of the state by the federal government at statehood. It has been legal for the public to use it since then.
This particular part of the river is above Rockport reservoir where Browns Canyon road crosses the river. I would expect the next move to be to declare any other part of the river that can be shown to have log drives as their riverbed being state property.
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This is the first in several court battles, USAC needs donations of what ever you can give, become a member and give if you can. They are fighting to give us access to the places that we have always supposed to have access to. That is every river or stream that was used before or after statehood as a means to float a 6" round, 8' long log or other cargo.
Hopefully this will make the Provo case easier to win and from there maybe get the courts to overturn the part of the law enacted by the legislature after Conatser v Johnson's supreme court ruling, that requires each part of each stream or river to be challenged individually. With that a survey of historical records around the state to find any river or stream that had several years of log drives and they are open too.
I would that includes about every sizeable river or stream in the state.
Remember, this is not taking, this is establishing that title to the land beneath the water was transferred to the ownership of the state by the federal government at statehood. It has been legal for the public to use it since then.
This particular part of the river is above Rockport reservoir where Browns Canyon road crosses the river. I would expect the next move to be to declare any other part of the river that can be shown to have log drives as their riverbed being state property.
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