re: Private vs public water in tidal navigable waterways

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Take any conservation program. ACEP, for example. Federal tax dollars improving/enhancing/conserving (whatever you want to call it) and there surely is no public access to these lands unless it's done on land that was already public (i.e. NWR/WMA).

I'm not saying I agree with it, but spending tax dollars on private land is surely not unique to Louisiana' coastal restoration efforts.

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I honestly don't have a rebuttal, I'm just not familiar with those types of easement programs.

If you poke around there was a very interesting case in New York or maybe New Jersey where some property owners wanted the state to repair a damn on a private lake that was built by a defunct farm co op half a century ago. Not sure how the whole thing played out but the long and short of is people were pissed off that they were being asked to fix a lake they weren't allowed to use.

Basically, if you like it so goddamn much, fix it yourself.

It's an interesting topic and I think it would be a hard sell to the public.