Georgia House committee bill threatens ‘right to float’
Kayakers navigate South Chickamauga Creek near Ringgold, but a new Georgia law would not guarantee the right for boaters to float down small streams like this. CONTRIBUTED
A bill currently in play in the legislature seeks to clarify boating, fishing, and hunting rights on the state’s large navigable streams like the Altamaha and Savannah but leaves hundreds of miles of smaller streams that are popular boating destinations at risk of being closed to the public.
Representatives with Georgia River Network, Georgia Canoeing Association, American Whitewater and American C…
