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> Everything below the high water mark is publicly accessible per Montana state law

Huh, does that mean you can legally travel through someone's private property by walking/wading the length of a stream that passes through it? (i.e. the stream is effectively a public footpath?)

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I'm not from MT but I believe that is the correct interpretation, similiar to the laws surrounding California coastline

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Montana_Stream_Access_Law

This concept gets a fascinating and thorough exploration in the form of post-icecap-melt “intertidal” zones in KSR’s epic _NY 2140_. Picture lower Manhattan submerged at high tide. A highly recommended read.

It certainly does. You just have to enter from a public access point. This point could be as formal as a maintained fishing access or as informal as any bridge on a public thoroughfare.

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