Help Keep The Rogue River Available to Everyone!

We do not inherit the land from our ancestors, we borrow it from our children.

The easement at the end of SE Elm Lane has provided access to the Rogue River for the past 30 years to anglers looking to bank fish for both Salmon & Steelhead. In the middle of May, this easement was closed to both the neighborhood as well as the greater Southern Oregon public due to complaints from select home owners along this section of the river. No notice was given to the neighborhood or to home owners in the area or these actions could have been contested prior to the closure. We, as neighborhood residents, citizens of Grants Pass and anglers of Southern Oregon are petitioning the City of Grants Pass to re-open this long standing public access to this unique and otherwise inaccessible (without a boat) section of the Rogue River.

We hope for a speedy response as it is the river that provides the low & fixed income residents in our neighborhood some relief from the hot summer days. Our local youth in the neighborhood would also like to point out that each day this access remains closed is one more day where neighborhood kids, out on summer vacation and without transportation, though they have already bought and paid for annual fishing licenses - can not fish.

We thank you in advance for your consideration of these matters.

Dear friends...I need your help, please click on this link and sign the petition to help us keep the Rogue River accessible to everyone! After you have signed the petition, it would be great if you could share it with as many people as possible...we all own the Rogue River and we all have the right to enjoy and fish it!

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