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First, a heartfelt "thanks" to everyone who took a minute (literally) to contact Siskiyou County's supervisors regarding their attempt to criminalize wading and fishing in the Upper Sac and McCloud Rivers (among others).
Two e-mails were even sent from overseas.
Several supervisors are starting to back away from the provision of the county's Natural Resources Plan that designates the Upper Sacramento, McCloud, Shasta and Scott Rivers as "non-navigable" -- which means the rivers would become private property, and wading below the high water marks -- rights you've enjoyed for hundreds of years -- would become illegal.
The supervisor most responsible for this terrible Natural Resources Plan has even suggested changing it so that only the Scott and Shasta Rivers are designated non-navigable, but that's simply not good enough.
We have a legal right to access ALL Siskiyou County's rivers (which are clearly "navigable" in fact and by definition), and there's no reason to give any of those rights away.
If you haven't yet taken a minute to contact the supervisors (at the e-mail addresses listed in my original post), please do so. Simply tell them you're not willing to give away your legal right to access all the navigable rivers in Siskiyou County -- and that your interpretation of law says they're all navigable.
I'll keep you posted on our progress. Thanks again!
Tom Chandler
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