Opinion No. Oag 18-86, (1986)

THOMAS E. VAN ROY, District Attorney Sawyer County

You ask whether Sawyer County may sell an eighty acre parcel of county-owned land which contains an ancient trail called the "Namekagon Portage Trail." The trail historically was used by Indians, missionaries and traders as a link between the Chippewa and St. Croix River systems. The trail is about two and one-half miles long, and lies between Lake Windigo and the Namekagon River, just south of Hayward, Wisconsin.

You state that although the trail crosses the above-described property, most of the trail's length crosses property now in private…