A controversial law limiting public access to streams came under scrutiny by the Utah Supreme Court on Monday as justices weighed whether the Public Waters Access Act violates the state constitution.
A lower court invalidated the act, passed as HB141 in 2010, because it declares nearly half the state’s fishable streams off limits, despite a public easement to these waters enshrined in a common-law principle know as the “public trust” doctrine.
Like a pendulum, the Utah debate over stream access...
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