re: Catahoula Lake could become off limits to duck hunters

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Oh, and it's no longer Catahoula Lake

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Chiefly, I find that the Plaintiffs’ claims for compensation
for inverse condemnation are barred by liberative prescription. Further, I believe
that the Lake Plaintiffs lost any claim to ownership of the land by virtue of thirtyyear acquisitive prescription

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In sum, I conclude that the Plaintiffs’ claims for compensation for the
appropriation of their property have prescribed under La.R.S. 13:5111. Further, in
my opinion, the State has demonstrated ownership of the area known as Catahoula
Lake by virtue of thirty-year acquisitive prescription. I find that the record
warrants reversing the judgment of the trial court; sustaining the State’s exceptions
of liberative and acquisitive prescription; dismissing the Plaintiffs’ demands for
compensation and related relief, as well as dismissing the Lake Plaintiffs’ demands
for recognition of ownership; rendering judgment on the State’s reconventional
demand by recognizing the State’s ownership of the area known as Catahoula
Lake; and remanding with instructions to set the boundary between the Lake
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Plaintiffs’ land and the State’s land at the thirty-six (36) feet mean sea level
contour. For these reasons, I respectfully dissent.

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If I own land behind the levee along the miss river, I own the river?!??

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