Frank Riggs: “The conveyance of the Gasquet Mountain School property will help a very small rural and remote community in Del Norte…”

“The conveyance of the Gasquet Mountain School property will help a very small rural and remote community in Del Norte County, the most northern county in my congressional district. It will help a financially strapped school district by providing them with a facility for permanent use. It will also provide a rural community with a meeting location for other community activities, although again the principal purpose of conveying this property is to provide the Gasquet School District with an additional permanent facility on land that has been previously owned by the Federal Government and managed by the U.S. Forest Service. The Elkhorn timber sale substitution is an equitable resolution of a longstanding dispute between the Bureau of Land Management and a private timber company, the Eel River Sawmills, which is one of the largest and most important private employers in Humboldt County, the largest county in my congressional district.”