High Peaks Alliance Holds Forum in Phillips to Discuss Local National Wildlife Refuge.
Valerie Tucker, Special to the Sun Journal
Franklin |
PHILLIPS — The High Peaks Alliance launched its first of several discussion forums Wednesday evening to introduce the concept of a national wildlife refuge based in northwestern Franklin County.
The evening gathering, sponsored by the Sandy River Business Association, shared some of the group’s successes in supporting landowner cooperation, access easements and conflict resolutions. When a landowner subdivides and sells a single-piece property with a single trail, future recreational users must get permission to access each property to continue to use that trail. Property owners have the right to refuse access, said forum organizer Chris Beach, but the Alliance has worked hard to bring those recreational users and landowners to the table.