{"id":3678,"date":"2011-01-31T06:08:17","date_gmt":"2011-01-31T11:08:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/?p=3678"},"modified":"2011-02-09T15:30:00","modified_gmt":"2011-02-09T20:30:00","slug":"morning-read-paddlers-vs-property-rights-revisited","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/2011\/01\/31\/morning-read-paddlers-vs-property-rights-revisited\/","title":{"rendered":"Morning Read: Paddlers vs. property rights revisited"},"content":{"rendered":"

If you’ve been wondering about the latest legal dust-up over paddling rights in the Adirondack Park, Will Doolittle has a good backgrounder in today’s Glens Falls Post-Star<\/a>.<\/p>\n

As modes of transport have changed – trucks, not rivers, are used to move logs to market these days – courts have recognized recreation as a commercial use, too, according to advocates for paddlers’ rights.<\/p>\n

In the Moose River case, the judges wrote, “In line with these modern circumstances and our precedents, we are satisfied that recreational use should be part of the navigability analysis.”<\/p>\n

But does the Moose River opinion mean that any waterway that can be paddled by anyone in any boat is navigable in fact, and must be open to the public?<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Meanwhile, the Albany Times-Union<\/a> is urging the state legislature to pass a law clarifying once and for all which waterways are indeed open to navigation.<\/p>\n

It’s been 22 years since a draft of a still unpublished DEC list cited 253 waterways statewide, 55 in the Adirondacks, that could qualify for common law right of passage under a better understood\u00a0law.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

This latest lawsuit involves journalist and Adirondack Explorer editor Phil Brown’s decision<\/a> to paddle a posted section of Shingle Shanty Brook which requires a portage over private land.<\/p>\n

You can hear my report about the conflict, and my trip along the route, here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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