{"id":1053,"date":"2007-03-07T06:45:07","date_gmt":"2007-03-07T11:45:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/twoheeldrive\/?p=1053"},"modified":"2007-03-07T06:45:07","modified_gmt":"2007-03-07T11:45:07","slug":"tree-planting-in-utah-scouts-future","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/twoheeldrive\/index.php\/2007\/03\/07\/tree-planting-in-utah-scouts-future\/","title":{"rendered":"Tree planting in Utah Scouts&#8217; future"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/aponline\/us\/AP-Wildfire-Boy-Scouts.html\">That&#8217;s part of their end of a deal to restore forest lands the Scouts apparently set fire to. <\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\nA local chapter of the Boy Scouts of America has agreed to pay $330,000 and plant 9,000 tree seedlings to settle a state lawsuit over a wildfire that burned 14,200 acres, officials said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8221;With the cash component and these other elements we think that&#8217;s a substantial recovery for the taxpayers,&#8221; Utah Assistant Attorney General Mike Johnson said Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>The state alleged in its lawsuit that the wildfire started at a campsite where 17 Scouts, ages 12 to 14, were working on a wilderness-survival badge in the Uinta Mountains in eastern Utah. There were two 15-year-old counselors but no adults present at the campsite.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>300k  sounds like a lot of cash for a Scout troop to pony up, but they could have bigger problems: the federal government, which spent $12 million fighting the fire, also has sued to recoup its costs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>That&#8217;s part of their end of a deal to restore forest lands the Scouts apparently set fire to. A local chapter of the Boy Scouts of America has agreed to pay $330,000 and plant 9,000 tree seedlings to settle a&hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link-p\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/twoheeldrive\/index.php\/2007\/03\/07\/tree-planting-in-utah-scouts-future\/\">Read the whole thing<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0},"categories":[33],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/twoheeldrive\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1053"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/twoheeldrive\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/twoheeldrive\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/twoheeldrive\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/twoheeldrive\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1053"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/twoheeldrive\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1053\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/twoheeldrive\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1053"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/twoheeldrive\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1053"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/twoheeldrive\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1053"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}