By Dian Ver Valen
The Times
Proposed Land Swap Has Neighbors Steamed
DNR hopes to sell northern Columbia Co. property to BPA in exchange for King Co. land
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DAYTON – Last week the Washington State Department of Natural Resources presented to several county residents at a public hearing its plan to sell 640 acres of land it owns in Columbia County to the Bonneville Power Administration in exchange for land deemed of equal value that BPA owns in King County.
All three county residents in attendance were unhappy with DNR. Merle Jackson, a county commissioner and land owner in the rural northern part of the county where this land exchange is planned, said the transaction was not negotiated on a “level playing field.”
Raymond DeRuwe, who leas...
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