{"id":2449274,"date":"2019-09-28T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2019-09-28T06:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.aspentimes.com\/?p=313553"},"modified":"2019-09-28T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2019-09-28T06:00:00","slug":"a-grand-conclusion-for-the-grandview-mining-claim-near-independence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/local-news\/a-grand-conclusion-for-the-grandview-mining-claim-near-independence\/","title":{"rendered":"A grand conclusion for the Grandview mining claim near Independence"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The view from the Grandview lode is truly grand. The mining claim was acquired by two nonprofit conservation groups in 2017 and transferred to the U.S. Forest Service this month.<\/strong>
Independence Pass Foundation\/courtesy photo<\/em><\/figcaption><\/div>\n<\/figure>\n

Conservation groups and the federal government completed the process to get a mining claim in a spectacular setting near the ghost town of Independence into public hands earlier this month.<\/p>\n

The Wilderness Land Trust transferred ownership of the 9-acre Grandview Lode to the U.S. Forest Service, the trust announced Friday. The Wilderness Land Trust and Independence Pass Foundation teamed up<\/a> in January 2017 to buy the land from willing sellers.<\/p>\n

The Grandview is on the steep hillside south of Highway 82, west of Independence. The private owners had legal vehicular access even though it was within the Collegiate Peaks Wilderness.<\/p>\n

\u201cPrivate ownership of this land would have opened it up to development, road construction and the disruption of vital habitat for threatened and endangered plants,\u201d said a statement from Wilderness Land Trust.<\/p>\n

The Grandview and adjacent Spotted Tail Lode, which is 10 acres, were purchased by Wilderness Land Trust and Independence Pass Foundation for $285,000 in January 2017.<\/p>\n

Transfer of the Spotted Tail hasn\u2019t been completed yet, but that is the goal. It was unclear if the federal government purchased the Grandview or acquired it in some other way. The president of Wilderness Land Trust couldn\u2019t be reached for comment Friday afternoon.<\/p>\n

Wilderness Land Trust acquires property within or adjacent to wilderness areas throughout the Western U.S. It has successfully sold every one of those properties to the U.S. government \u2014 more than 400 times. More often than not, that property gets folded into wilderness \u2014 where motorized and mechanized uses are prohibited. In some cases, the land acquired provides critical trail access into wilderness.<\/p>\n

The Independence Pass Foundation is a nonprofit dedicated to protecting the natural environment and historic resources of the pass and its approaches. It got involved in this purchase because of the implications if the property would have been developed.<\/p>\n

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The view from the Grandview lode is truly grand. The mining claim was acquired by two nonprofit conservation groups in 2017 and transferred to the U.S. Forest Service this month.Independence Pass Foundation\/courtesy photo Conservation groups and the federal government completed the process to get a mining claim in a spectacular setting near the ghost town […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[49],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-2449274","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-local-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-27 12:09:21","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KSPN The Valley's Quality Rock","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2449274","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2449274"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2449274\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2449274"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2449274"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2449274"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}