Douglas County assumed full control Wednesday over the 1,100-acre Mildred Kanipe Memorial Park, raising the possibility some timber will be cut to pay for the park’s upkeep. “Logging is the scariest part. Those forests are absolutely gorgeous out there,” said Midge McGinnis, the secretary and treasurer of the Friends of Mildred Kanipe Park. Mildred Kanipe left the land, a farm northeast of Oakland, to the public for a county park when she died in 1983, with the condition the land be preserved and held in a trust. According to Wells Fargo Bank, the trust earns about $4,000 a year through …
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