{"id":10378,"date":"2024-09-02T19:54:55","date_gmt":"2024-09-02T19:54:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thecannabist.co\/2024\/09\/02\/83-year-old-colorado-fisherman-is-back-defiant-seeking-arrest-and-support-in-fight-for-freedom-to-wade-in-states-rivers\/136569\/"},"modified":"2024-09-02T19:54:55","modified_gmt":"2024-09-02T19:54:55","slug":"83-year-old-colorado-fisherman-is-back-defiant-seeking-arrest-and-support-in-fight-for-freedom-to-wade-in-states-rivers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/83-year-old-colorado-fisherman-is-back-defiant-seeking-arrest-and-support-in-fight-for-freedom-to-wade-in-states-rivers\/","title":{"rendered":"83-year-old Colorado fisherman is back, defiant, seeking arrest and support in fight for freedom to wade in state&#8217;s rivers"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"wp_fb_like_button\" style=\"margin:5px 0 5px 5px;float:right;height:100px;\"><script src=\"http:\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_US\/all.js#xfbml=1\"><\/script><fb:like href=\"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/83-year-old-colorado-fisherman-is-back-defiant-seeking-arrest-and-support-in-fight-for-freedom-to-wade-in-states-rivers\/\" send=\"true\" layout=\"standard\" width=\"450\" show_faces=\"false\" font=\"arial\" action=\"like\" colorscheme=\"light\"><\/fb:like><\/div><div class=\"media_block\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thecannabist.co\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/TDP-L-HILL-FISHING_JAC7857-512x400.jpg\"><img src=\"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/83-year-old-colorado-fisherman-is-back-defiant-seeking-arrest-and-support-in-fight-for-freedom-to-wade-in-states-rivers.jpg\" class=\"media_thumbnail\"><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thecannabist.co\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/TDP-Z-Roger-Hill-Fishing-Arkansas-082424-560x311.jpg\"><img src=\"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/83-year-old-colorado-fisherman-is-back-defiant-seeking-arrest-and-support-in-fight-for-freedom-to-wade-in-states-rivers-1.jpg\" class=\"media_thumbnail\"><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thecannabist.co\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/TDP-L-HILL-FISHING_DSC0021-560x400.jpg\"><img src=\"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/83-year-old-colorado-fisherman-is-back-defiant-seeking-arrest-and-support-in-fight-for-freedom-to-wade-in-states-rivers-2.jpg\" class=\"media_thumbnail\"><\/a><\/div>\n<div><img src=\"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/83-year-old-colorado-fisherman-is-back-defiant-seeking-arrest-and-support-in-fight-for-freedom-to-wade-in-states-rivers-4.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" \/><\/div>\n<div class=\"row\">\n<div class=\"large-10 large-centered small-12 columns\">\n<p>An 83-year-old Colorado fisherman has resurrected his 12-year fight for public freedom to wade in the state\u2019s rivers, seeking arrest and risking conflicts with landowners by returning to a contested bend in the Arkansas River.<\/p>\n<p>Roger Hill hiked across federally managed public land to enter the river, donned his straw hat, and cast his dry-fly line along that privately owned stretch last weekend without incident. This week, he urged other anglers statewide to replicate his civil disobedience and assert a public right to fish and float on navigable rivers\u00a0 \u2014 a freedom established in other western states.<\/p>\n<p>Roger Hill, right, fishes in the Arkansas River near Cotopaxi along with Don Holmstrom co-chair go backcountry, hunters, and anglers on Saturday, Aug. 24, 2024. (Photo courtesy of Cody Perry)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.denverpost.com\/2024\/09\/02\/fisherman-rivers-access-colorado\/\">Read the rest of this story on TheKnow.DenverPost.com.<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An 83-year-old Colorado fisherman has resurrected his 12-year fight for public freedom to wade in the state\u2019s rivers, seeking arrest and risking conflicts with landowners by returning to a contested bend in the Arkansas River. Roger Hill hiked across federally managed public land to enter the river, donned his straw hat, and cast his dry-fly [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[6917,2435,9,1,3,7356,61,7724,1736],"tags":[7159,2436,7358,7747],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10378"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10378"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10378\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10378"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10378"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10378"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}