Profit Island

The state has already admitted that they do not have an adequate budget to legally survey the coast. this is why the state land office map is constructed by sub contractors with digitization pens looking at aerial photos. Furthermore this creation of maps using photos instead of surveyors is why there is a huge disclaimer over the screen when you pull up the map that states it does not purport to represent ownership. Plus it would be a waste of money as quickly as the land is eroding.

My point is that under the current law it is apples and apples. In both scenarios the law doesn't care if people used to be able to access it. When it enters the boundaries of the owners property the owner can control access as he/she sees fit.

The irony of that actually made me laugh.

1. The public has been fishing these waters for years and they still do. Most of the time people fish and landowners ask them to please leave and they do. The dance is not the biggest issue in the world. This problem was brought to a head when Daryl carpenter was run out of a place three times in a row and then filed a law suit against the landowner (land is a geographical boundary in the marsh not dictated by whether it is currently water or earth). Daryl lost the law suit and got mad and started a Facebook group to try and get a law put in place so he could fish wherever he wanted.

2. The idea for paying to rehab the coast is multifaceted. Hurricane protection is one issue. You also don’t want the marsh to erode all the way to Leeville or HOUMA. The state is also partially responsible (a recent study said up to 75% responsible) for the erosion by the way they leveed and dammed all of the rivers and bayous. This is a way to make that up.

3. The biggest problem that is going to come from this is further restricted access. There was an inclusion of a deadline within which to have a gate built. I am sure all landowners are now worried that if this comes again, which has already been stated in this thread, that they need to build gates now just in case.

If I were an entrepreneur I would start a canal gate building company.

Overall it was a good day for people who care about private property rights.

Not new, just cant get the mods to unban my other account. My co workers got on my computer while I was out of town and wreaked havoc on my social media. baw.

No. That falls under the laws dealing with accretion and avulsion of the river bed. Your dad loses land to the water. The neighbor on the other side of the river actually gains ownership.
Unless you are unlucky enough to be dealing with the pricks at the state, like at the wax, where they claim the water and the newly created land.

They were compensated. There are permit fees and mitigation banking requirements in place. If the people now think that the prices paid at that time are not sufficient... well... sucks to suck lol.

This stance is so crazy. If I put up a gate on my hunting club and throw corn am I now illegally holding the publics deer? The boundaries of private property are geographical and they don't give consideration to man made canals just like a driveway off the highway doesn't allow every Tom Dick and Harry to come hunt the deer on my lease.
When the neighbors run dogs and they come over on our property its exactly like some Toby coming onto my private property when I am trying to duck hunt.
I cannot believe how many of the fishermen I am hearing from are flat out communists on this issue. Lets take from one group and give it to the people. I wonder how man Bernie Bro stickers I am going to start seeing at the boat launch. Bunch of dirty hippy communist Cajuns.

Any of yall know how to upload a screenshot? If so I can show you the exact boundaries.

The law is on the side of the landowners. I recommend all of the trespassers staying out of the private canals and fishing in the more than 4.5 million acres of publicly available waterways in the wonderful state of Louisiana. These conversations always remind me of the stories that came out of Avoyelles Parish when the first high fence went up. All the coonasses from Plaucheville, Mansura, Bordelonville, etc., would drive the perimeter of the fence and shoot the deer inside because "how you gonna trap my deers like dat." Private property is private property. Sorry Charlie. Don't be a dirty trespasser.