Seameantguy:
As I read your post you seem to be saying it is OK to go where you want as long as you are below the high water mark.This is perhaps true on many properties along streams holding anadromous fish but not the Case anywhere on EAGLE CREEK.
The " gray " area RT speaks of is becoming more gray as we speak because the people who started the process to determine navigability are the landowners.Now the ignorant ***** have realized that the law was always clear but the enforcement was not. It is the landowners who are trying to stop the lengthy and costly process which will give us back our access to most large waterways.They thought that by making the determanation so costly the State would not fund the studies.Agencies involved tried desperately to get the legislature to avoid this process.We will soon see what happens as the land board will make a decision on the Sandy this year.Notice I said Land Board not the courts.The land board is made up of realestate crooks and others who are only interested in devlopment.Not conservation or public rights.They could overturn the Sandy "findings" and try to fight back using state's rights issues which plays well into the republican way of thinking.That will cost the state a lot of $ in what most educated persons believe would be a losing battle.
My earlier post mentions how Multnomah Co. Sheriff's should conduct themselves.This advice came from the State Attorney General.
Good Luck