Interesting Clip on Gulf Beach Digging

[Tuco]

Interesting news clip on what happens when you try to dig on the Gulf Coast (National Park). It seems that the Feds won't even let BP dig to clean up the oil?

Gulf Beaches

Regards, Tuco

 

[Mick in Dubbo]

That's sounds like national parks the world over! We'd get into deep water here too if we took a metal detector to a national park. There have been some pretty good scaps down in Victoria (Australia) with the greenies trying to declare some gold hunting areas, nation parks. A lot of other out door interest groups fought against them too a few years back (and seem to have won!). There are some places with some very bizarre laws in some of those places though. They even restricted mountain bike riders from riding though some places with fines of many 10's of thousands of dollars in fines if they got caught! Some folk needs to get some prospective on reality!
Mick Evans.

 

[TURNMASTER]

The reality is that that Ranger may not know the laws concerning his local beaches. I have not studied the laws for the gulf coast and where one may or may not dig. What I know of the Washington and Oregon ocean beaches is that the state owns them period, right up to the high water mark, they are all part of the state parks system. As far as I know any National Park claim ends at the high water mark. Now there are rules that apply, but they are not national. In Oregon You must turn all items of value to a State parks Ranger or some such other person. I did not get to hunt but for a little when I was there and have not in Washington.

The point here is that you should know which laws apply to you and where they apply. When a Law Enforcement Officer says you may not do a certain thing, a man must know wether that LEO actually knows. The fact that a man wears a badge does not make him a complete book of law or smarter or better educated than the avarage man.

I am not saying that you should run afoul of the law. I am saying you MUST know your rights and the laws that apply to you. You also have a responsibility to stand up for yourself. This means you must educate yourself.

Knowledge is Power
Jeff