Flathead National Forest has order POWDR Corp to remove a mobile home trailer which they placed at the Holland Lake Lodge location almost a year ago, but a month after it removal was ordered, the trailer is still there.
Last summer POWDR Corp stationed a mobile apartment trailer at the Holland Lake Lodge campus. While the company has removed most of the other pieces of equipment, the trailer has remained.
At a Swan Valley Community Council meeting in March, Chris Dowling, Swan Lake District Ranger, said that there had been permits allowing for the placement of the trailer but there had never been any permits allowing it to be hooked up to utilities. This prompted many questions about why the trailer had been brought to the area in the first place.
But now that the project is at a stand-still while Powdr drafts a new master development plan, the trailer has become little more than an eyesore.
On April 17 the Flathead National Forest asked that the trailer be removed from the site where it has been sitting, without utilization, for months.
According to an email exchange between Bill Lombardi, of Save Holland Lake, and Kurt Steele, the Flathead National Forest Supervisor, the trailer is only still there because no one has gone to retrieve it.
"Holland Lake Lodge is actively working to get the trailer removed," wrote Steele. "The contractor that HLL had identified to do the work backed out last minute and did not complete the request. Holland Lake Lodge is working to secure a new contractor to remove the building as soon as possible and is also trying to come up with a contingency plan in case that next contractor fails to remove the building."
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