ELR Citation: ELR 20392
No(s). 96-2106 (10th Cir. Nov 17, 1997)

The court holds that a ranch owner with inholdings within the Apache National Forest and the Gila River Forest Reserve in New Mexico does not have a preexisting patent right or a common-law easement allowing access to the inholdings. The court first holds that the government's claims regarding the r...