Good news for Little Juniata anglers (from Alert Underground Reader LS). Bad news for Donny Beaver.

A Huntingdon County jurist has confirmed his prior ruling guaranteeing the rights of citizens to have access to the Little Juniata River for fishing, boating and other recreation—a move applauded by the state agencies participating in the case.

In addition to upholding his findings that the Little Juniata River is navigable, and therefore public, Kurtz permanently enjoined the defendants “from interfering with the public’s rights in the Little Juniata, including the posting and/or hanging of signs, advertising the Little Juniata River as private waters and threatening, harassing and otherwise attempting to exclude the public from fishing, boating, wading and/or recreating on and in the Little Juniata River and the submerged lands owned by the commonwealth.”

Essentially, the judge affirmed an earlier decision that precluded Donny from doing things like stringing cables across the Little Juniata to keep the public from floating through. (Nice move from our “conservationist” eh?)

Bad Donny. Baaad Donny…

[tags]donny beaver, spring ridge club, little juniata, stream access, fishing, fly fishing[/tags]

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