Right-of-way easements would have solved CR5 problem
Dear Editor:
The ongoing problem of legal access on County Road 5 could have been solved by the U.S. Forest Service long ago!
In most of the second half of my career in the U.S. Forest Service I was stationed on the Jefferson National Forest in Virginia. Along with acquiring private property through purchase and exchange, I acquired over 200 rights of way that accessed federal land across private landowners. All but three of these right-of-way easements were acquired from willing sellers. Those th...