Colorado AG Phil Weiser asks Supreme Court to address river-access suit

Colorado Attorney General Phil Weiser wants the Colorado Supreme Court to wade into a murky river-access fight. 

Weiser this week filed a lengthy brief asking the state’s high court to intervene before a lower court takes up a case involving a fisherman who says he has a right to wade on a stretch of the Arkansas River and a landowner who says the riverbed is private property. 

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Angler Roger Hill’s lawsuit argues that since the Arkansas River was navigable when Colorado became a state, the state owns the riverbed and it’s open to everyone. Weiser, in his request…