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For the week of June 11 - 17, 2003

Editorials

Court stops robbery


The U.S. Supreme Court just stopped a robbery.

Idahoans who spend their free time enjoying rivers and streams should heave a sigh of relief.

The court recently refused to review an appeal by Montana landowners that challenged the state’s 1985 stream access law.

The law preserves the area on a stream bank between the water’s edge and the high-water mark for public use.

Idaho has a similar law, which would have been in trouble had the Montana challenge succeeded.

The landowners claimed the streamside areas as their own. They said Montana’s law unconstitutionally deprived them of property.

A high court endorsement of this blatant land-and-water grab would have been like stringing thousands of miles of barbed wire along Idaho and Montana streams. It would have given constitutional protection to "No Trespassing" signs along every foot of stream bank outside national parks and forests.

Small town economies that rely on visitors to the rivers that run through them would have been smashed to bits.

The high court’s refusal wisely stopped the attempted robbery of the West’s outdoor treasures and rebuffed those who would seal them into private vaults.

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