“Adirondack League Club Raises Arson Reward to
$100,000” - PRFA
News Brief, February 2006
With six remote camps destroyed beginning in 2003, the Adirondack
League Club is offering a reward of $100,000 for information
leading to the arrest and prosecution those responsible.
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In-Depth Information
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 “The
Navigable Waterways Controversy” - By John S. Marwell,
Esq., Shamberg Marwell Davis & Hollis, Mt. Kisco, New York,
Eleventh Annual National Conference on Private Property Rights
(PRFA, Albany, N. Y., October 13, 2007)
Recreationists are trying to create new rights by re-defining
the well established standard of navigability in favor of the
public at the expense of property owners. The Sierra Club and
a group within the New York State Attorney General’s
Office and Department of Environmental Conservation orchestrated
an effort to pass regulations and use a test case to create a
right of passage by canoe or kayak, including extensive dragging
and portaging. The Sierra Club’s test case was to
send canoeists down the shallow, rocky river through the Adirondack
League Club’s 53,000 acres of pristine property.
The club sued the canoeists for trespass and the state intervened
in favor of the canoeists. The Court of Appeals adhered to the
traditional standard of commercial utility but added a recreational
use test, which was narrowly defined in a settlement.
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- “Reward
offered for arsonists”- by Virginia Germer, News Correspondent,
Hamilton County News, Sept. 18, 2001 (Reprinted
by permission)
The Adirondack League Club is advertising a $5,000
reward to anyone who provides information resulting in the arrest
and conviction of the person(s) who burned two of the club’s
camps to the ground. The river that flows through the club’s
53,000-acre property had been closed to public use until Sierra
Club canoeists trespassed to assert the right of passage in 1991.
After a nine-year court battle, the ALC and the Sierra Club reached
a settlement that allowed canoeing. There is no way at this time
to know whether this arson is ecoterrorism, but the article quotes
the ALC’s attorney that a decision for the Sierra
Club “would open every private river to every canoeist
and white water terrorist that exists.”
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