Wednesday, September 10, 2003

Jarbidge campground squabble

U.S. Forest Service officials are still awaiting a legal opinion saying the government owns and may demolish improvements at a Jarbidge campground.
"We want to get results hopefully in the next few weeks," said District Ranger Bill Van Bruggen.
Meanwhile, relations between the Forest Service and the Private Lands Conservancy, which bought the private land on which a public campground mistakenly was built after a surveying error, have deteriorated.
The conservancy contests the government's right to remove improvements made on land the conservancy owns.
The dispute is part of a larger battle over who should control Jarbidge land-use issues in general - the Forest Service or a coalition of conservancy officials and members of the Shovel Brigade volunteer group whose work to restore South Canyon Road brought a lawsuit from the federal government...

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