The long-running dispute in New Mexico over public access to rivers and streams that flow through private property has attracted the attention of Democratic U.S Sen. Martin Heinrich.
He’s opposed to a 3-year old state Game Commission rule that gives landowners the ability to petition state officials to certify the waters on private property as “non-navigable” and at the same time prohibit the public from access without written permission.
The commission is scheduled to consider a handful of landowner applications at a special meeting June 18. Heinrich is asking that those applications be denied reported the Associated Press.
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