<div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div>There are certainly instances, legally defined, where either tag might be useful. In the State of Montana <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Montana_Stream_Access_Law">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Montana_Stream_Access_Law</a> , for instance, areas between the ordinary high water mark ( not to be confused with the 'flood plain' <a href="https://s3.amazonaws.com/visit-big-sky/craft/pdfs/Stream-Side-Access-MT.pdf?mtime=20181114055056">https://s3.amazonaws.com/visit-big-sky/craft/pdfs/Stream-Side-Access-MT.pdf?mtime=20181114055056</a> ) are public access, and growing up in that area, what we colloquially called the 'bank' was certainly not necessarily the edge of the water itself, since that changed from day to day and certainly seasonally, even if not in flood stage. And Montana isn't the only state with some version of this, and Oregon has similar laws regarding vehicle access on coastal beaches. <br></div><div><font size="2"><i>"
<span style="font-family:serif">Ordinary high-water mark</span><span style="font-family:serif"> means the line that water impresses </span><span style="font-family:serif">on land by covering it for sufficient time to cause different </span><span style="font-family:serif">characteristics below the line, such as deprivation of the soil of </span><span style="font-family:serif">substantially all its terrestrial vegetation and destruction of its </span><span style="font-family:serif">value for agricultural vegetation. Flood plains next to streams are </span><span style="font-family:serif">considered to be above the ordinary high-water mark, and are not </span><span style="font-family:serif">open for recreation without permission"</span></i></font></div><div><span style="font-size:10.846px;font-family:serif"><br></span>
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<strong>Montana Fish, Wildlife and Parks Perspective, </strong><span class="gmail-tr">Access to Public Lands</span> <span class="gmail-tr">Montana Fish, Wildlife and Parks Perspective</span>" at <a href="https://player.slideplayer.com/88/15893622/slides/slide_10.jpg">https://player.slideplayer.com/88/15893622/slides/slide_10.jpg</a> and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Montana_Stream_Access_Law#/media/File:CampingJeffersonRiverOct2008.JPG">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Montana_Stream_Access_Law#/media/File:CampingJeffersonRiverOct2008.JPG</a> and <a href="https://s3.amazonaws.com/visit-big-sky/craft/pdfs/Stream-Side-Access-MT.pdf?mtime=20181114055056">https://s3.amazonaws.com/visit-big-sky/craft/pdfs/Stream-Side-Access-MT.pdf?mtime=20181114055056</a></div><div><br></div><div>( and, at least in the USA, these banks are 'mappable' from public data, I am currently doing that along the Little Missouri <a href="http://bit.ly/2NpgLHi">http://bit.ly/2NpgLHi</a> , and this geomorphology is common along the Eastern front ranges of the mountains in North America from the arctic circle into Mexico ).<br></div><div><br></div><div>Michael Patrick<br></div></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><br>
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