RIVER ACCESS: Public access through private land ... we will 
explain on Passport to Texas.

PTT from TPW and the Sport fish Restoration Program

It's your right to row a boat gently down a stream -- if you 
can get to it. Because Texas is more than 95-percent 
privately owned, accessing public water is a challenge, 
but not impossible.

We finished taking a database survey of water access in the 
state. And we know now that we have between 25-hundred and 
35-hundred real water access points that the public can use. :12

Ron Smith, with inland fisheries, explains the "wiggle 
room" in the number of access points.

The reason the number is skewed is because we don't know 
exactly what kind of access [we have]. And we're in the process 
of sending some of our folks out to about a thousand of those 
sites to find out and characterize them to see what 
enhancements they might need or how we might utilize those in 
the future. :16

Heed trespassing laws when attempting to access public 
waters -- Parks and Wildlife can help.

One of the things that we are trying to do is do outreach. For 
example, our paddling trail program, there's a list of where the 
trespassing zones are. And, we'll tell you what's legal to get on, 
like a state owned island and where that is. And we also try to 
tell them you know that trespassing laws are in effect, and they 
have rights to protect their land like we have rights to be on the 
public waterways. :22

That's our show ... with support from the Sport Fish 
Restoration program, working to increase access to 
public waters in Texas ... 

For Texas Parks and Wildlife ... I'm Cecilia Nasti.






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