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As talks surrounding beach access continue amongst local environmental conservationists, recreational fishermen, and beachgoers, efforts are underway to increase access to the Island’s public beaches. A new bill filed earlier this year by State Rep. Dylan Fernandes, D-Falmouth, seeks to remove one significant barrier to public beach access: money. In a recent call with The […]
Only a smidgen of the 1,400 miles of Massachusetts coastline is open to everyone. How can that be?
The Massachusetts Appeals Court today told a man who owns property on a lake in Webster that just because he has access to a gravel path that goes down to the lake and just because state law dating to the Colonial Ordinances of 1641-1647 permit him to put a boat on the water doesn't mean he can build "a large, trident-shaped dock" in the lake at the end of the path - right in
The Massachusetts Appeals Court today told a man who owns property on a lake in Webster that just because he has access to a gravel path that goes down to the lake and just because state law dating to the Colonial Ordinances of 1641-1647 permit him to put a boat on the water doesn't mean he can build "a large, trident-shaped dock" in the lake at the end of the path - right in
A huge amount of Massachusetts coastline is not accessible to the public. Why not let people use intertidal zones?