Fund to defend paddlers’ rights

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The Adirondack Explorer newsmagazine has established a legal defense fund to raise money to fight a lawsuit that threatens to restrict paddlers’ rights in New York State. If the case goes to the state’s highest court, it could affect judicial elsewhere in the country. I posted an item about the fund on Adirondack Almanack today. Click below to read it.

http://www.adirondackalmanack.com/2011/01/explorer-creates-legal-defense-fund.html

The Almanack post contains a link to our legal-defense-fund page. To go to that page directly, click below.

http://www.adirondackexplorer.org/stories/legaldefensefund.php

Also, I posted on my Explorer blog today the landowners’ complaint against us and our answer to the complaint. Click below to read that post.

http://adirondackexplorer.org/out-takes/2011/01/17/explorer-answers-paddling-lawsuit/

The New York State Department of Environmental Conservation also thinks the waterways in dispute are open to the public under the common-law right of navigation. The last post also contains the letter that DEC wrote the landowners asking them to remove cables and no-trespassing signs.

Please share the Almanack link with your friends. We need the support of paddlers to win this thing.

Thanks for your time.

Phil Brown
Adirondack Explorer editor

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