Timeline

DMRA’s then-director and Johnson County Mayor Larry Potter visit our land. The director writes: “Overall, I think you have an amazing site for development into a resort for trail users on the Doe Mountain System,” and suggests placing campsites and cabins there.

We break ground on Doe Valley Campground. DMRA invites us onto its marketing committee as a “current and future business owner.”

DMRA’s public focus group. Local business owners say they do not want DMRA campgrounds competing with them.

DMRA’s director writes that the recommendation to the board will be to purchase property “for a training facility.”

DMRA’s board authorizes exploring the purchase.

Board adopts the master plan showing “Proposed Lodge and Training Center” on our parcel, then votes to buy the 80 acres.

DMRA closes on the purchase of our 80 acres on Pedro Shoun Lane.

DMRA asks to buy 5–8 more acres from us for another grant. We decline; that land is our own expansion area.

Camping at the site appears in a DMRA board record for the first time.

DMRA’s director writes about not wanting to “piss off the other campgrounds.”

DMRA’s board approves buying Roan Creek Campground for up to $350,000.

Board adopts a new master plan that now shows tent camping and, on the site map, “Parking Slips w/ Hook-Ups” — not “RV sites.” The plan’s own narrative still mentions RV hookups and slips. Four months later DMRA voted to build 20 RV sites on that same land.

DMRA applies for federal reimbursement on the purchase of our land.

Board votes to commit matching money for a federal ARC grant to build “20 RV sites and a bathhouse.” Same meeting: DMRA confirms it received $159,000 in federal reimbursement for buying our land.

Board minutes say the ARC application is “still in progress.”

We file written objections with state and federal officials. Reviews are underway.