{"id":3027,"date":"2010-10-20T10:55:00","date_gmt":"2010-10-20T14:55:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/?p=3027"},"modified":"2010-10-20T16:44:12","modified_gmt":"2010-10-20T20:44:12","slug":"explorer-dec-sides-with-paddlers-on-shingle-shanty-access-rights","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/2010\/10\/20\/explorer-dec-sides-with-paddlers-on-shingle-shanty-access-rights\/","title":{"rendered":"Explorer: DEC sides with paddlers on Shingle Shanty access rights"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_3030\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-3030\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/2010\/10\/20\/explorer-dec-sides-with-paddlers-on-shingle-shanty-access-rights\/shingle-shanty1-2\/\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3030\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-3030\" title=\"shingle shanty1\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/files\/2010\/10\/shingle-shanty11-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/files\/2010\/10\/shingle-shanty11-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/files\/2010\/10\/shingle-shanty11-150x112.jpg 150w, https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/files\/2010\/10\/shingle-shanty11-450x337.jpg 450w, https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/files\/2010\/10\/shingle-shanty11.jpg 640w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-3030\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">DEC officials say these signs should be removed<\/p><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.northcountrypublicradio.org\/news\/story\/16457\/paddlers-landowners-divided-over-river-access\">NCPR reported this summer on the turf <\/a>war between recreational paddlers and property owners in the North Country over river-access rights.<\/p>\n<p>Paddlers argue that recent court decisions mean that &#8220;navigable waterways&#8221; are roughly equivalent to public roads, even when private landowners own both banks of the stream or river.<\/p>\n<p>Some landowners &#8212; though not all &#8212; say boaters are trespassing.<\/p>\n<p>Now the <a href=\"http:\/\/adirondackexplorer.org\/stories\/paddlersrightspt2.php\">Adirondack Explorer magazine is reporting<\/a> that the state Department of Environmental Conservation is siding with paddlers in one of the most fiercely contested feuds on Shingle Shanty Brook near Tupper Lake.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Weighing in on a long-running controversy, the state Department of  Environmental Conservation says the public has the right to paddle  through private land on Shingle Shanty Brook and adjoining waterways  that connect two pieces of state land in the Whitney Wilderness.<\/p>\n<p>What\u2019s more, DEC has ordered the landowners to remove cables and  no-trespassing signs intended to deter the public from paddling the  waterways.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Phil Brown, the reporter on the piece, says the DEC tried to negotiate with the landowners, but were unable tor each a deal.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Christopher Amato, DEC\u2019s  assistant commissioner for natural resources, warned [the landowners] that the  department might refer the matter to the state attorney general for  legal action if the cables and signs are not removed.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Department is unwilling to acquiesce in the Association\u2019s  continuing interference with the public\u2019s right to navigate Mud Pond,  Mud Pond Outlet, and Shingle Shanty Brook,\u201d Amato wrote the landowners\u2019  attorney, Dennis Phillips of Glens Falls, in early fall.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>According to Brown, the landowners declined to comment on DEC&#8217;s demand.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NCPR reported this summer on the turf war between recreational paddlers and property owners in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[22,884,4817,48],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3027"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3027"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3027\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3028,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3027\/revisions\/3028"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3027"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3027"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3027"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}