State eyeing major Snake Mt. land deal

A major land and timber-rights transaction approved — or at least not opposed — by selectboards in Weybridge and Addison has paved the way for the transfer of hundreds of acres of land and timber rights on Snake Mountain in both Addison and Weybridge to the Vermont Department of Fish and Wildlife.

For more than eight decades, the A. Johnson Company’s Bristol lumber mill rang with the sounds of logs being sawed, sorted and sold to customers. Things are quieter at the site off Route 116 lately, as the company permanently closed its lumber mill this p … (read more)

“The Vermont Fish & Wildlife Department began to acquire land for Snake Mountain WMA in 1959 from the A. Johnson Lumber Company, which has reserved timber rights.”