[at-l] State (PA) may gain game land as repayment for zinc damage

[Steve Landis]

http://www.standardspeaker.com/articles/2009/01/25/news/hz_standspeak.20090125.b.pg13.hz25_zincland_s1.2250758_loc.txt
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"As part of settlement offer for the damages that the zinc operations 
caused to public lands and wildlife, the Pennsylvania Game Commission 
might receive 1,100 acres of unspoiled forest and fields in Monroe 
County from CBS Broadcasting.

The commission's board scheduled a notational vote about the land called 
King's Manor in Ross and Eldred townships for its meeting at 8:30 a.m. 
on Tuesday in Harrisburg."
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"Since 1990 signs have warned hikers on the Appalachian Trail that they 
are passing through a Superfund site.

"Appalachian Trail through-hikers from Maine to Georgia are always 
startled by that site and just how barren it is and how much man has 
impacted there," Curt Ashenfelter, executive director of the Keystone 
Trails Association, said."
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"The Game Commission would receive land that is primarily a forest of 
maple, birch, oak and poplar trees. Hikers can see it from higher 
elevations on the Appalachian Trail."
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Hmmm....   Eldred Township...  sounds familiar.

Steve
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