(10/07/10) Over the last 20 years, sport paddlers in the Adirondacks have been pushing the limit on the kind of water their canoes, rafts, and kayaks can navigate. They've developed new techniques and new equipment that can handle more aggressive rapids and even waterfalls. And paddlers are also waging fierce legal battles to try to open more rivers, including routes that offer access to remote wilderness areas.
Some landowners are pushing back, arguing the sport is stepping on their private property rights. As Brian Mann reports, the dispute has sparked a kind of range war on some of the North Country's most beautiful rivers. more
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Whitewater paddlers recently gained access to Ausable Chasm for the first time. (Photo: Allen Mann)
Despite a court decision opening New York's navigable rivers to recreation paddling, no-trespassing signs and a cable still divide Shingle Shanty Brook. (Photo: Brian Mann)
Whitewater paddlers recently gained access to Ausable Chasm for the first time. (Photo: Allen Mann)
Despite a court decision opening New York's navigable rivers to recreation paddling, no-trespassing signs and a cable still divide Shingle Shanty Brook. (Photo: Brian Mann)
(07/26/10) Over the last 20 years, sport paddlers in the Adirondacks have been pushing the limit on the kind of water their canoes, rafts, and kayaks can navigate. They've developed new techniques and new equipment that can handle more aggressive rapids and even waterfalls. And paddlers are also waging fierce legal battles to try to open more rivers, including routes that offer access to remote wilderness areas.
Some landowners are pushing back, arguing the sport is stepping on their private property rights. As Brian Mann reports, the dispute has sparked a kind of range war on some of the North Country's most beautiful rivers. more
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Pink "Lady Slipper" wild orchid. Photo: Stuart Delman, Chestertown NY.
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