re: Gating canals in houma area

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Delta farms

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I fished this when the gates blew down about 10 yrs ago. Best bass trip of my life. All 4+ lbs fish.

I just don't get how large navigable canals can be roped off. That's like owning both sides of a road, so you block the road off so ppl can't drive through.

They can be gated because they are man made, and rightfully so. The issue is those canals are one of the biggest contributing factors to land loss in the marsh. They very well may be private canals but they straight fricked over everyone to build them.

It's obvious they lacked the foresight to know what kind of damage would be caused but why should the tax payers foot the bill for other peoples mistakes?

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There is nothing unique about private property.

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Are we not the only state out of 50 that allows for private ownership of tidal marsh?

This thread is about canals capable of being gated.

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This thread is about canals capable of being gated.

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True but the canals in questions should have never been private in the first place. I have zero issue with the state leasing marsh to oil and gas but not if it will restrict access to the public that is funding said marsh.

I wish more people would ignore posted signs. Clog the courts with criminal trespass cases so much so that it becomes national news. It's retarded.

I own and manage family farmland which some land is marsh in Louisiana and SE Texas.

Texas the permit process to dig a canal is harder and I don't think you can gate canals last time I looked.

Biggest problem I see is illegal canals being dug through ditches and smaller natural bayous without permits. I had a landowner next to us have a leasee dig a canal off a main bayou which the canal cut through my property, dug into a curve in a natural small bayou which one side state property other side my property, and then curve the canal back on the land they lease for people to get to the duck blinds in the marsh.

These pricks even put a gate on the part of the canal which is my property.
I had to go to court which cost money to get the landowner next to me to fix the damages they did to my property.

Goal for the land is to give a buffer between my farmland and marsh during a storm or period of high South winds.

In Texas they would have never been able to pull this stunt.
In Louisiana they not only pulled it they tried to claim they had a right to dig a canal on my property to get to their lease when they actually could have state road access to their lease.

Yes, I have pricks in the Orvis Clothes down to the hat stopping by wanting to show me how I can lease my land to them for pennies on the dollar for them to release it to duck guide services.

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I fished this when the gates blew down about 10 yrs ago. Best bass trip of my life. All 4+ lbs fish. I just don't get how large navigable canals can be roped off. That's like owning both sides of a road, so you block the road off so ppl can't drive through

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because that was all farmland that flooded when the levee blew out. we used to fish that every afternoon in high school, the pump station by the levee was full of sacalaitwhiteperchcrappie

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True, and in Houma.

Are there any areas similar to Houma in other states that putting up gates in tidal marsh is ok by state law?

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I don't know why some of you want to strawman this up. A canal is a canal is a canal. It wasn't navigable in 1812. Water doesn't magically turn private property into public. Just because you can get to it by your boat doesn't make it any different than farmer Brown's tank pond or river clubs flooded by river water.

a long time ago some supreme court judge ruled that states could interpret the public trust doctrine...which basically gave our gov the right to do what they wanted. Large amounts of money changed hands during all of this. They then told us we had to go back to nonsensical maps from 1807 to challenge them.