Lawyers!! Please help with clarification Please
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That sucks, I'm on a corp owned lake with lots of wildlife refuge's. I've got one in my backyard. We've also got islands that are wildlife refuge's and we still have a great time. We can still beach the boats, drop anchor, party, etc. Its the egrets that do most of the damage by destroying the trees. Sure we have one island that sees a lot of trash, but nobody get harrased over it and a couple of organizations try to pick up after holidays. Seems more like a case of liberals run amok, we keep a tight noose on them down here.
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I have yet to see the map, as they recently aquired the property. I think they are just making $hit up as they go right now. At the "town hall" meeting they had in regard to the island, the speaker said they will enforce to water line (so I am told, I missed the meeting). Yet the agent that hassled me last weekend says if my feet are touching ground (even in the water) he will write me a ticket next time as "I have been officially warned". I have a feeling it is going to take someone getting arrested and fighting it for there to be an actual boundry set... THis whole make it up as you go is total BS!
Also just being a refuge area does not necessarily mean you can't enter the area. There may just be restrictions on what you can do. That's why you need the actual statute.
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Here in TN the TWRA (Tn Wildlife Resource Agency) has more power than a St Trooper. They can stop you for no reason, search you, your vehicle and your vessel with no reason, impound it for any suspicion and put you in cuffs for resisting. They randomly stop boats all day for "safety checks" and bust out the breathalizer. On top of that they can search your truck, house, or any other possession you have if there is a suspicion of you having any fish or wildlife or meat in the freezer etc...
A few years ago we were canoeing and they build a blind on the side of the river to hide and watch people as they came by the stopped them and popped a bunch of people for fishing and checked all the catch and wrote tickets for open container on a dang canoe trip! WTH else are you gonna do on a canoe trip?
A few years ago we were canoeing and they build a blind on the side of the river to hide and watch people as they came by the stopped them and popped a bunch of people for fishing and checked all the catch and wrote tickets for open container on a dang canoe trip! WTH else are you gonna do on a canoe trip?
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so if you like to boat in clean waters or pull up to an island that isn't full of beer cans, cigarette butts, condoms, puke, piss, and other general discarded human debris you're a liberal? I'm not a liberal but i enjoy the water and all that it offers and find it pathetic if some "conservative" decides his/her trash must be shared by all.
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So if you like to boat in clean waters or pull up to an island that isn't full of beer cans, cigarette butts, condoms, puke, piss, and other general discarded human debris you're a liberal? I'm not a liberal but I enjoy the water and all that it offers and find it pathetic if some "conservative" decides his/her trash must be shared by all.
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Sometimes we're our own worst enemy.
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In the hours just after Charlie in 2003, the popo closed the bridges to Sanibel and Estero Islands. They would not even let residents back on. If you had stayed during the Cane, and you left after, you were not allowed back. They did this for about a week and a half several residents were arrested for trying to go back home.
We boated the following weekend (8 days after the storm and two days after getting power back), and went to Sanibel Beach to Anchor just off the beach. We were RUNDOFF (to quote Oh Brother where art thou) by the local POPO and went to a beach that had no road access. My Bro-in-Law did find a 6.5" long Meglodon Tooth for his trouble at the new beach (it was where Charlie cut upper captiva in half for a while.) We never intended to step on shore, just anchor off in chest deep water, but NOOOOOO, we must have been there to loot the big screen tv's and other goodies we would have to carry across the open expanse of sand.
We boated the following weekend (8 days after the storm and two days after getting power back), and went to Sanibel Beach to Anchor just off the beach. We were RUNDOFF (to quote Oh Brother where art thou) by the local POPO and went to a beach that had no road access. My Bro-in-Law did find a 6.5" long Meglodon Tooth for his trouble at the new beach (it was where Charlie cut upper captiva in half for a while.) We never intended to step on shore, just anchor off in chest deep water, but NOOOOOO, we must have been there to loot the big screen tv's and other goodies we would have to carry across the open expanse of sand.