Date:         Fri, 14 Sep 2012 10:55:28 -0600
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About 2 years ago they opened the west nishnabotna river as recreational
waters with towns/access points approximately every 7-12 miles. There is a
local guy who bought an old school bus ,trailer,canoes,kayaks,and some
weird round tanks with seating and beverage holders built in. They will
take you up river drop you off then float down or put you in at botna bend
and pick you up and bring you back to your vehicle. Its floating river
nothing rough or fast. Ya win some and ya loose some!!

Velma 82diesel 1.6 na westy

On Sep 14, 2012 11:34 AM, "JRodgers" <jrodgers113@gmail.com> wrote:

In Alaska during the settlement of the Alaska Native Land Claims
Settlement Act of 1972, Alaska Natives were permitted to select lands
for the designated areas - including any river bottoms of rivers defined
as non-navigable. This shut out the use of many areas in Alaska to
sportsmen, sports fishermen lest they be trespassing on Native land.
This produced a whole lot of problems but they have over time gradually
been worked out. Some areas remained closed,but means and methods
satisfactory to all parties have been worked out. In some cases land
swaps between the State, the Feds and the Alaska Natives took place. In
others, The Feds and the State simply bought back the land given,
thereby in creasing the cash wealth of the Native corporations. Much of
this came about because 9in the beginning many Natives felt the the land
they were getting was like gold, but in time the younger more educated
Native people began to seen that to possess and control that much land
was going to be problematic and they set out to remedy the problem but
selling back their land grants in some cases, and turning exclusive
management of some lands back over to the Bureau of Land Management and
Federal Fish and Game. This seems to have worked in most cases.

John



On 9/14/2012 9:16 AM, Dave Mcneely wrote:
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> In Oklahoma we also have this bizarre situation of s...