of the easement provides the public the right to float, hunt, fish, and participate in all lawful activities that utilize the water. We further hold that the public has the right to touch privately owned beds of state waters in ways incidental to all recreational rights provided for in the easement, so long as they do so reasonably and cause no unnecessary injury to the landowner. 31 Chief Justice DURHAM, Justice WILKINS, Justice PARRISH, and Justice NEHRING concur in Associate Chief Justice DURRANT's opinion. 1 . We use the term "touch" to encompass all aspects of touching, including walking and standing on the privately owned beds of state waters. 2 . Utah Code Ann. § 73-1-1 (Supp.2007); see also Adams v. Portage Irrigation, Reservoir & Power Co., 95 Utah 1, 72 P.2d 648, 652 (1937) (<HOLDING>). 3 . J.J.N.P. Co. v. State, 655 P.2d 1133,
recognizing the importance of public welfare and conservation of water in administering its public waters recognizing that public utilities affect the public interest in that they render essential public services to a large number of the general public holding that wetlands adjacent to navigable waters are included in the term territorial waters holding that waters in utah are of two classes private and public and title to public waters is in the public all are equal owners that is have coequal rights therein holding that the waters of the state are a public asset and noting that this court has previously determined that public land public revenue a municipallyowned utility and wild salmon are all public assets that cannot be appropriated by initiative footnotes omitted