Forest Service, Red Lodge Mountain finalize land exchange
BILLINGS, Mont. – The owners of the Red Lodge Mountain ski area and the U.S. Forest Service have filed the paperwork on a land exchange.
The Billings Gazette reports the deal swaps 0.6 square miles (1.6 square kilometres) of land owned by AG/JMA Red Lodge Realty Holdings LLC for 0.4 square miles (just more than a square kilometre) managed by the Custer Gallatin National Forest’s Beartooth Ranger District.
The deal was signed Dec. 20 and filed the next day, but wasn’t revealed until this week because of the government shutdown.
Ski area manager Jeff Schmidt says if the exchange hadn’t been finalized before the federal government went unfunded, it would have added more paperwork to a deal that has already taken seven years to complete.
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Information from: The Billings Gazette, http://www.billingsgazette.com
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