Legal Opinion
Skranak v. Castenada
Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
Decided October 11, 2005No. 04-35053, 04-35056PublishedCited by 29 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
O’SCANNLAIN, Circuit Judge:
We must decide whether the United States Forest Service properly denied owners access to their patented mining claims within the Kootenai National Forest in Montana.
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Alan Skranak and James Skranak (“the Skranaks”) currently own the 50-acre “Fourth-of-July” tract, 1 consisting of four mining claims in the Kootenai National Forest in Montana. The United States granted a patent on one in 1907 and on the other three in 1912. A six-foot wide wagon road was built to the tract in 1902. The road has long since been closed to motorized traffic and now functions as the…
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