Pity California did not follow Oregon ... when the governor wanted to claim the shore for the public, he found his only powers of property sequestration were f

Pity California did not follow Oregon ... when the governor wanted to claim the shore for the public, he found his only powers of property sequestration were for building roads, so he made the whole coast a highway: In 1911, governor Oswald West was elected on the promise to reclaim Oregon's beaches as public land. Though the legislature favored the privatization of these lands, West was able to make an argument for public ownership based on the need for transportation, and in 1913, the Oregon legislature declared the entire length of the ocean shore from the Columbia to California as a state highway. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oregon_Coast#1860%E2%80%93present https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oregon_Coast#1860%E2%80%93pres...