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Who owns water? The US landowners putting barbed wire across rivers

by Huhty on 3/16/18, 5:03 PM with 5 comments

• by kevin_b_er on 3/16/18, 7:30 PM

  Standard practice of their politics. Take from the public and give to the rich.

• by sli on 3/16/18, 8:40 PM

  > “Private property owners are some of the biggest conservation stewards right now,” he says. “I feel like the beauty of our lands and species survival is up to private landowners.”

  Stands out as somewhat hypocritical to think in those terms but then act selfishly and hide the beauty away.

• by mirimir on 3/16/18, 11:50 PM

  That's been going on for decades. I recall barbed wire on rivers in the Colorado Rockies. Also on some creeks in the Southeast.

  But yes, hitting barbed wire sucks for canoers and kayakers. It can get people killed. Some of us carried wire cutters.