Wednesday, August 10, 2016

Montana: Landowner contests Forest Service trail in Crazy Mountains

Billingsgazette.com - Full Article

By BRETT FRENCH french@billingsgazette.com
Jul 17, 2016

A Big Timber-area landowner and the Forest Service have locked horns over an old trail that crosses private land on the eastern face of the Crazy Mountains to access hard-to-reach federal lands.

Hailstone Ranch owners Lee and Barbara Langhus have hired Livingston attorney Joseph Swindlehurst to counter the Forest Service’s contention that Trail 115, also shown as Trail 136 on some maps, is a public prescriptive easement across their property.

“My clients are not aware of any easement that the public or the Forest Service has to cross their property,” Swindlehurst wrote in a March 25 letter to Alex Sienkiewicz, the Yellowstone District ranger based in Livingston.

Old trail

The Forest Service sees things differently...

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http://billingsgazette.com/lifestyles/recreation/landowner-contests-forest-service-trail-in-crazy-mountains/article_e68a8df7-59e4-5166-b740-b4efa00dab1e.html

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