Our hard won right to public access may be taken away. Stripping our children of the opportunity to enjoy the outdoors.

Prettyman: Stream access may partly evaporate

“Anglers knew it was only a matter of time before the seemingly too-good-to-be-true stream access granted them in a ruling last summer by the Utah Supreme Court would evaporate. The apparent carte blanche access barely had been announced in July when anglers started wondering how long it would last. Now, state Rep. Ben C. Ferry-R, Box Elder, is sponsoring a bill for the 2009 Legislature that is a response to the ruling. Anglers feared that the proposed bill, which had not been named as of this column’s deadline, would ignore the ruling. But angling representatives say it actually may offer more of a compromise than a reversal.” LINK