Montana DNRC Bars Combat Veteran from Home

[shadowhelm]

Montana Department of Natural Resources (DNRC) is closing down a century-old mining road to all vehicular traffic and demanding that landowners abandon vehicles or remove them from their land. This unfortunate situation has stranded 67-year-old, Vietnam combat veteran, Bane Wilson, from his home where he planned to retire and live out his life

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[thewayne]

Wow. I thought you were required by law to provide easements if someone lives on the far side of your property and you're capable of cutting their access from the rest of the area. I thought it was a fundamental underpinning of law. I guess I thought wrong, or the DNRC was capable of either rewriting or ignoring it.

This well and truly sucks.

[joycemocha]

Few questions--

Who's the timber company that bought the sale, and which government entity is selling the timber? BLM or State of Montana?

What entity is FWP (Note that state wildlife entities have different acronyms in other states)?

Has a reason been given for closing the road? I'd look to the timber company for that one, also depending on politics from the DNRC. Also, what reason is the Nature Conservancy giving for the road closure? Shooting this stuff down starts with looking at the official reasoning given, then applying pressure to all the related agencies. Wilderness ain't an issue if it's related to a timber sale, at least in my opinion.