HB #144 - Proposed Stream Access Bill..

[Jomama]

FYI.

http://www.ktuu.com/news/ktuu-bill-to-protect-stream-access-20110207,0,6948039.story

http://akdemocrats.org/blog/2011/02...revent-loss-of-alaskas-fishing-stream-access/

 

[ak_powder_monkey]

Come on Les you can do better than that... Lets go Montana style, all natural waters are public below the average high water mark period.

 

[andweav]

all natural waters are public below the average high water mark period.

So, considering what things look like most places I've been when it's raining hard, and during breakup, that would make most everywhere public.

 

[FishGod]

Someone could have mining rights to the sstream bed

 

[ClearCreek]

Come on Les you can do better than that... Lets go Montana style, all natural waters are public below the average high water mark period.

There is a bill in the Montana legislature to overturn their stream access law. Don't know how it is progressing or it's chances of passing.

ClearCreek

 

[Jomama]

Come on Les you can do better than that... Lets go Montana style, all natural waters are public below the average high water mark period.

The Public Trust Doctrine/AK Constitution already asserts that right on all public & navigable waters below OHW, regardless of title.. I think 144 addresses access on uplands above OHW and along waters, like purchasing/negotiating easements from willing sellers..

 

[ak_powder_monkey]

The Public Trust Doctrine/AK Constitution already asserts that right on all public & navigable waters below OHW, regardless of title.. I think 144 addresses access on uplands above OHW and along waters, like purchasing/negotiating easements from willing sellers..

yeah I know... However most streams I want to fish are not listed as navigable.

Meanwhile the Montana bill is to reclassify any river with an irrigation system a ditch (so pretty much every river in the state becomes a ditch). It'll probably pass the legislator and get vetoed. If it doesn't I will never purchase a Montana fishing license.

 

[Jomama]

most streams I want to fish are not listed as navigable.

It says public water too, a lesser standard. It doesn't need to be Navigable (of which there are two definitions).

 

[LuJon]

wonder when they will do the same thing for hunting lands...

 

[Alaskanmutt]

Someone could have mining rights to the sstream bed

Mining Claims give the lease holder ZERO rights to the land and water.
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Nada, none, zilch

All a mining claim is , is a lease with the rights to extract the locatable minerals. They cannot block access to the land. With very few exceptions.

 

[Jomama]

http://www.adn.com/2012/02/28/2341648/fishing-stream-access-bill-passes.html