For Immediate Release: May 30, 2007 
Contact: Mel Lloyd BLM 970-244-3097

Media Advisory: Wrecked travel trailer found off Little Park Road

GRAND JUNCTION, Colo.—The Bureau of Land Management Grand Junction Field Office is asking for the public’s help in finding the owners of a 1960s-era, white travel trailer that was abandoned and left as wreckage below Little Park Road near First Flats.  Contents of the destroyed recreational vehicle are scattered about, but no occupants were found and no one has come forward to claim the wreckage.  The Mesa County Sheriff’s Office has cleared the site, and BLM is treating it as discarded trash.

A passer-by reported the wreckage Tuesday morning, May 29.  The incident likely occurred Monday night.  Visible from the road, the destroyed trailer sits about 30 yards down a steep slope in the area near the Tabeguache Trail.  BLM is investigating the incident and will attempt to recover the $700 U.S. taxpayers are facing for removal and landfill fees.

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Editor’s Note:  Photos opportunities of wreckage removal at 11 a.m. today.  About 20 minutes west on Little Park Rd.  (left on Monument Road, left on D Road (Rosevale Road), right on Little Park Road.  Call Mel Lloyd for interviews at the BLM Grand Junction FO, 2815 H Rd.  Photos available upon request.