NORTH OGDEN -- As anyone involved will attest to, creating a public trail through a patchwork of private and public property is a complicated and lengthy process in which land and rights-of-way are negotiated one piece at a time.
The recent addition of 200 acres to the Uinta-Wasatch-Cache National Forest adjacent to the Bonneville Shoreline Trail serves as a prime example of the range of interests that must come to the table to make trail expansion work.
In a deal brokered by the nonprofit Trust for Public Land, 200 acres of private land next to a half-mile stretch of the BST were recently sold to the U.S. Forest Service for $1.6 million.Full story and map:
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