Russian River MAC tackles river access issues
The Lower Russian River Municipal Advisory Council (MAC) reached a high-water mark in addressing some of the region’s most pressing concerns at last week’s meeting. Often dismissed as a Potemkin village, the MAC broke through the usual surface-level chatter this time, digging into the real issues plaguing the Russian River community. … The key topic was the always thorny issue of public access to the river versus private property rights. Don McEnhill, executive director of Russian Riverkeeper, got straight to the point: “The public’s rights do not include the right to trespass across private property to get to the river. Those access rights are incumbent upon members of the public getting to the river via legal public access like our county river parks.”