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Ranchers Sue S Dakota for Right to Use Trail On Their Own Private Property

Monday, May 26, 2014 22:44

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J. D. Heyes / Natural News

(NaturalNews) A group of South Dakota ranchers is suing the state after officials barred them from driving across a scenic trail that is on their own lands, thereby crippling their operations and subjecting them to criminal charges.

The five ranchers, led by Dorothy Ellen Trevarton, also named the state Department of Game, Fish and Parks in their suit, which was filed in Fall River County Court.

As reported by Courthouse News Service, the suit centers on the George S. Mickelson Trail, a 109-mile route from Deadwood to Edgemont in the southwest corner of the state. The trail was constructed along old rail lines that were once used by the Grand Island and Wyoming Central Railroad Company, as well as its successor, the Chicago Burlington and Quincy Railroad Company.

Burlington donated its interest in the railroad’s right of way to the state of South Dakota, which then converted the stretch into a crushed-stone trail in 1998.