PA BOARD APPROVES TWO LAND EXCHANGES
The Pennsylvania Board of Game Commissioners today approved a land exchange with Richard and Christie Youngkin involving a 25-foot wide by 3,448-foot long right-of-way across State Game Land 120 in exchange for three acres of land, both of which are in Beccaria Township, Clearfield County. The Youngkins own two interior parcels within SGL 120, and the Game Commission has agreed to accept one of the parcels in exchange for legal access across an existing road into the second interior. The easement for right-of-way shall not be used for the purpose of subdivision and the Youngkins have agreed not to construct any buildings closer than 150 feet from the boundary with SGL 120.
Two thirds of the property that the Game Commission will receive in exchange for the right-of-way is reverting grassland, with the other third in mixed forest cover, including an old apple orchard. Acquiring the three acres will remove an interior property lying within SGL 120, and reduce future boundary line maintenance.
The Board also approved an exchange involving a number of adjacent property owners who have been accessing their properties through SGL 111 in Lower Turkeyfoot Township, Somerset County. Some have been paying annual right-of-way licenses fees, while others have questionable legal access. The landowners have agreed to exchange the right-of-way for replacement land.
The landowners have agreed to cause to convey to the Game Commission a four-acre tract of land adjacent to SGL 93 in Shade Township, Somerset County, from the Wildlife for Everyone Endowment Foundation (WFEEF), which the WFEEF acquired with generous assistance from the Laurel Mountain Midstream Operating, LLC/Williams Pipeline Company, The Conservation Fund and Waste Management Incorporated. The replacement land is within the Flight 93 National Memorial boundary and along Johnson Bottom Road. The land is a mowed field.
Acquiring this property will expand the recently acquired SGL 93, which was named and dedicated in honor of the heroic passengers and crew of United Airlines Flight 93 who bravely sacrificed their lives on Sept. 11, 2001.
