natetheslugger0
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Alright so I need some information on rivers. Are they free ground to detect? If not what can i do to detect there.
It probably depends on your state/county. Some places a property owner owns the rivers and creeks. Where I am they don't.
What about in Arkansas?
Well let me put it to you this way: Imagine in your mind the particular river(s) that you have in mind. Ok, would it be unreasonable for you to simply walk along the banks of that river ? Eg.: to walk your dog ? Fish ? Birdwatch ? Or would those actions constitute a "scram" from someone. Or a charge of trespassing, etc...
If you can simply walk along the shores of that/those rivers, and partake of various innocuous activities, like in my example, then why would md'ing be any different ? Is md'ing somehow so evil that it's in a class by itself ? Since when ?
Unless it's within an obvious historic monument park type place's boundaries, and is just the run-of-the-mill river that goes through mundane terrain, where pedestrians are not disallowed, then ... sheeesk, go look for the ring your wife lost there last week.
And of course, if fronts someone's private home , where their home comes down to the border of the river, such that you're on their front lawn, then sure, use common sense. But beyond that, don't overthink it.
Or you can knock yourself silly inquiring and surveying to determine city vs county vs state vs fed (all of which have varying sub-entities within each of them). And then go asking a bunch of "pressing questions" to desk jockeys 100 miles away. And will probably become the latest victim of "no one cared till you asked". In the same way if I asked them "Can I walk my dog there" , I might likewise fetch a safe "no". When reality is: Did anyone really care less ?
Just avoid obvious historic sensitive monument places, and people's front lawns, and places with no-trespassing signs (where you wouldn't imagine even being a pedestrian).
Well let me put it to you this way: Imagine in your mind the particular river(s) that you have in mind. Ok, would it be unreasonable for you to simply walk along the banks of that river ? Eg.: to walk your dog ? Fish ? Birdwatch ? Or would those actions constitute a "scram" from someone. Or a charge of trespassing, etc...
If you can simply walk along the shores of that/those rivers, and partake of various innocuous activities, like in my example, then why would md'ing be any different ? Is md'ing somehow so evil that it's in a class by itself ? Since when ?
Unless it's within an obvious historic monument park type place's boundaries, and is just the run-of-the-mill river that goes through mundane terrain, where pedestrians are not disallowed, then ... sheeesk, go look for the ring your wife lost there last week.
And of course, if fronts someone's private home , where their home comes down to the border of the river, such that you're on their front lawn, then sure, use common sense. But beyond that, don't overthink it.
Or you can knock yourself silly inquiring and surveying to determine city vs county vs state vs fed (all of which have varying sub-entities within each of them). And then go asking a bunch of "pressing questions" to desk jockeys 100 miles away. And will probably become the latest victim of "no one cared till you asked". In the same way if I asked them "Can I walk my dog there" , I might likewise fetch a safe "no". When reality is: Did anyone really care less ?
Just avoid obvious historic sensitive monument places, and people's front lawns, and places with no-trespassing signs (where you wouldn't imagine even being a pedestrian).
....Digging
I clean them and never had a problem at all. Wear waders as there is alot of septic waste in them flowing out from homes.
GLHH!
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In Georgia the land owner owns to the half way mark in the river. In Tennessee, it is usually covered by TVA. I don't know the law now, but in Florida it use to be that if the waterway was able to run a boat it was public.