Boy Scouts to Sell Portion of Firestone Reservation
The Boy Scouts have decided to sell a large part of their Firestone Scout Reservation in eastern Los Angeles County to environmentalists while retaining about 700 acres as a Scout campground.
In May, the Boy Scouts agreed in principle to sell the entire 3,371-acre parcel to the Trust for Public Lands, a nonprofit conservation group, for $13.8 million. The Scouts Board of Directors this week limited the negotiations to about 2,700 acres of the property in Tonner Canyon south of Diamond Bar. The Boy Scouts will retain and refurbish the campground in the southeastern portion of the property.
The sale frees the Scouts from the expense of maintaining the reservation while allowing it to keep a campground close to Los Angeles, said Scout spokesman Alex Auerbach.
Conservationists want to buy the Firestone property as part of their effort to build a wilderness corridor from Whittier to Anaheim.
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