>>2815207It's a lake, the odds of the "high water line" being above the first tree are 0%.
>The belief that the state owns a strip of land around all lakes for public use is absolutely false. Riparian property (property abutting a lake, river, or wetland) is either privately or publicly owned. The general public can access water bodies or watercourses via public property, but not through private property. Individuals entering private property without permission from the landowner are trespassing and may be prosecuted under the state trespass laws. It is illegal to trespass on private property in order to gain access to a water body or watercourse without first obtaining the verbal or written permission from a landowner.And also, it's not "high water line", it's "natural low water line", which refers to the lowest level a water body naturally reaches during a typical period of time, often excluding periods of extreme drought or other unusual events.
>When a water basin or watercourse is "navigable" under the federal test, the State owns the bed below the natural ordinary low water level (see: Lamprey v. State (PDF), 52 Minn. 1981, 53 NW 1139 [1893]; and United States v. Holt State Bank (PDF), 270 U.S. 49 [1926]). The federal test used for navigability is: "when they are used, or are susceptible of being used, in their natural and ordinary condition, as highways for commerce, over which trade or travel are or may be conducted" (see: State v. Longyear Holding Co. (PDF) 224 Minn 451, 29 NW 2d 657 [1947]). If a court has found that a lake is non-navigable and meandered, the shoreland owners own the bed of a lake in severalty (see: Schmidt v. Marschel. (PDF), 211 Minn 543, NW 2d 121 [1942]). If a stream is non-navigable but has been meandered, the shoreland owners own to the thread (centerline) of the stream. If a lake or stream is non-navigable and not meandered, ownership of the bed is as indicated on individual property deeds.