Meetings to Discuss River Management Options

[OneLastCast]

For general information.

Here is a portion of an email from DSL:

A release has been posted announcing five meetings--Tillamook, Fossil, Mill City, Sweet Home and Medford area--to obtain comments on a proposal for a new law to resolve river conflicts between the public and riverfront property owners.

Here's the link: http://www.oregonstatelands.us/pr_20...lternative.htm

Rivers for pilot program: Trask, John Day, North Santiam, South Santiam, Mid/Upper Rogue


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[garyk]

Great, so they want to duck the issue of doing navigability studies - after the Legislature created that very process - and instead create a another process that does not resolve the ownership issues. AND then requires us to pay yet another new fee to use public property.

I say absolutely NO WAY to this.

I believe the Steelheaders are one of the groups referred to that has not bought into this sham - and as a member I certainly hope they haven't and that they continue to resist this stupid idea.

[OneLastCast]

I agree whole heartedly with you. The process is there it just has to be utilized. I think that this proposal will end up with as many legal challenges then the original so it might as well be done right.

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[Re:Play]

The ANWS has and continues to put a lot of effort and money into this battle of maintaining the public access to the rivers that the state owned when it became a state.

One idea in the "compromise" is that we could access the public river via boat, but not by walking down the river in the water!!---go figure.