April Hoogerhuies and her husband Daniel scroll through emails offering to help them sell their property that have come since the Hermits Peak/Calf Canyon fire started, despite them having no intention to sell.
Photograph by Nadav Soroker, Searchlight New Mexico
Diana Tittle, a member of the board of Sierra County Public-Interest Journalism Project, was the editor of the Sierra County Sun, the Citizen's precursor. A former resident of Truth or Consequences who now lives part-time in northern New Mexico, she spent her 42-year professional career in Cleveland, Ohio, where she worked as a newspaper reporter, magazine writer and editor, book author and publisher and publishing consultant. She is the recipient of a Cleveland Arts Prize for Literature.
Read the attached article from Searchlight. I need to comment because the same thing happened to us in 2012, in Colorado. We lost everything on our historic property. Our big loss was a direct result of another “prescribed burn”, with 22 residents being compensated as a result of revising the CO State Law, to allow for compensation from an immune State Agency, the CO. State Forest Service! We lobbied for this through a State Representative, in addition we all had to hire attorneys who made big bucks from it. The Realtors or Land Speculators are still circling ten years after, and these properties, both improved and unimproved, are selling in the Millions! That’s Colorado for you.
Read the attached article from Searchlight. I need to comment because the same thing happened to us in 2012, in Colorado. We lost everything on our historic property. Our big loss was a direct result of another “prescribed burn”, with 22 residents being compensated as a result of revising the CO State Law, to allow for compensation from an immune State Agency, the CO. State Forest Service! We lobbied for this through a State Representative, in addition we all had to hire attorneys who made big bucks from it. The Realtors or Land Speculators are still circling ten years after, and these properties, both improved and unimproved, are selling in the Millions! That’s Colorado for you.