From the ‘damn, I forgot to mention this last week file’, here’s a report that will make rightful and legal river access fanatics downright gleeful today. Montana’s scrappy, state constitution wielding, stand up and fight the giants (as in David v. Goliath) Public Land / Water Access Association won the latest round in the battle […]
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You’ve probably caught at least a whiff of the story that popped up last week about Ducks Unlimited, allegedly at the behest of the most unpopular man in Montana (the carpetbagger James Cox Kennedy of Atlanta-based Cox Enterprises), unceremoniously dumping longtime DU magazine contributor Don Thomas (Lewistown, MT) over an article in Outside Bozeman magazine. […]
Montana’s PLWA, the Public Land / Water Access Association, has for many years been a staunch defender of public access rights in Montana. Just a few weeks ago they won a major round in the Ruby River access battle with Atlanta media mogul James Cox Kennedy. PLWA president John Gibson recently wrote eloquently about the […]
The news has just rolled out in the past hour or so – the Montana Supreme Court announced this morning that it was in essence upholding Montana’s Stream Access Law (as reversed in a prior District Court decision) and ruled the William Cox Kennedy claim to denying access to the Ruby River at the Seylor […]
Though this quote has been circulating for a few weeks now, a sober reminder from Montana’s Public Land / Water Access Association today – A personal letter from PLWA President John Gibson To Those Who Value Our Stream Access in Montana “My client not only owns the land under the Ruby River in Montana. He […]
Unless something has changed in the past few hours, the Montana Supreme Court is soon to be seated in the Strand Union Building, Ballroom A on the MSU campus in Bozeman to hear the PLWA appeal of the district court ruling on Seyler Lane Bridge access. You’ve heard about this case – billionaire media heir […]
Some had figured the biggest challenge to Montana’s Stream Access law would come from the legislature this year. They were wrong. The biggest challenge underway comes from Atlanta, the home of billionaire media don James Cox Kennedy regarding the Seyler Land crossing on the Ruby. The fight is once again headed to the Montana Supreme […]
Nine days ago we posted, after getting pelted by friends and contacts with various emails and calls, a piece regarding the newest (albeit somewhat ill-conceived) attack on Montana Stream Access regs. The issue dealt with concerns being raised over James Cox Kennedy’s (a source of both angsty heartburn and at the same time significant mirth […]
Friend of Chi Wulff Joe Moore, fly fishing wizard and guiding impresario from West Yellowstone, emailed over a gentle reminder we’d missed something last week over on the FOAM blog (Fishing Outfitters Association of Montana). We’d gotten wind of infamous landowner James Cox Kennedy’s (that’s not his image to the right, but an artist’s recreation […]
The good guys (imagine big white horses, big white hats and handsome grins) continue to fight for river access back home even as the rest of the world seems to forget that Montana exists this time of year. Just for grins here are three updates (well, maybe two and a half) on river issues near […]
