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when native Utes were driven out of the Crested Butte area and land was opened up by the government for homesteading. At that time, the government performed surveys that established boundary lines for Veltri’s property, called Cold Springs Ranch. “For over 100 years, that was the boundary. Between 1986 and 1988, the Forest Service and the BLM performed a new land survey,” Veltri explained. “At the end of that survey, whoa, guess what? There’s a triangular piece of land on your western boundary that really doesn’t belong to you after all.” The land the Forest Service would like Veltri to give up is a small meadow pasture next to the East River where his calving process takes place every spring. It also contains the road he uses to access his hay meadow on the west side of the river. Veltri says he is willing to trade the Forest Service access up Farris Creek Road through his property in exchange for adjusting the boundaries on the west side of his property. Veltri says that he and the Forest Service maintained an “uneasy status quo” for years over the disputed property
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