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re: Gating canals in houma area
Posted on 2/11/16 at 6:53 am to Scrowe
Posted on 2/11/16 at 6:53 am to Scrowe
Exactly. People keep citing other states laws. No one has the oilfield in their wetlands the way LA does. Those rivers are public waterways much like our main bayous which are public. If an Arkansas hunter owned a thousand acres of land and decided to dredge a canal from the river to the center of his property, im sure that canal doesn't suddenly become public. But they probably never have to deal with that since why would anyone do it.
It sucks. I fished a lot of private marsh (no no trespassing signs) and would hate to lose it all. But fact is, these are private.
Think of it as a road. Most roads are provided by the state or federal government. But you can connect a private road or driveway to that road and have it go on your private property. People don't have enough a right to your road just because it's connected to the state highway. Sucks if you've been using it with no problems then the owner suddenly puts up a gate. But it doesn't make it wrong for the owner to put up a gate. It's their right.
It sucks. I fished a lot of private marsh (no no trespassing signs) and would hate to lose it all. But fact is, these are private.
Think of it as a road. Most roads are provided by the state or federal government. But you can connect a private road or driveway to that road and have it go on your private property. People don't have enough a right to your road just because it's connected to the state highway. Sucks if you've been using it with no problems then the owner suddenly puts up a gate. But it doesn't make it wrong for the owner to put up a gate. It's their right.
Posted on 2/11/16 at 7:29 am to KG6
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Exactly. People keep citing other states laws. No one has the oilfield in their wetlands the way LA does
While the sheer number of canals may be different, look no further than our neighbor to the East of the Pearl River. Whether it's 1 million or 1 thousand, the concept is the same, but you won't see posted signs on canals in Mississippi's tidelands.
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I fished a lot of private marsh (no no trespassing signs) and would hate to lose it all. But fact is, these are private
I guess that part of the point. Of the millions of acres of marsh that make Louisiana what it is, only a very small portion is in fact navigable by Louisiana law. The "fact" needs to be discussed and potentially altered, because as it reads today we are all trespassers when we leave a coastal marina by boat. That's a fact I don't like living with.
Posted on 2/11/16 at 7:56 am to KG6
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People don't have enough a right to your road just because it's connected to the state highway
This doesn't fit because your private road does not cause the public road to become impassible. You are also not receiving tax payer support to help save your private road from the same fate as the public road you destroyed in the process. You know what else you didn't get? The bill from the state for the damage you caused.
A better analogy would be you connected a private road to a public road and then used pieces of the public road to pave the one you built.
Posted on 2/11/16 at 8:20 am to KG6
lic. If an Arkansas hunter owned a thousand acres of land and decided to dredge a canal from the river to the center of his property, im sure that canal doesn't suddenly become public.
No. But it should
No. But it should
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