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The mayor of Ely is promising to
end his decades of ignoring regulations in the Boundary Waters
Canoe Area Wilderness.

      Roger Skraba was sentenced in federal court Tuesday
after pleading guilty to driving his snowmobile in the federal
wilderness area.

      The Duluth News Tribune reports Skraba also was sentenced for
breaking into a U.S. Forest Service shed and stealing a portable
toilet, which he had hidden.

      Skraba pleaded guilty in March, three years after being caught
and ticketed on Crooked Lake. He was fined $3,630, sentenced to 40
hours of community service and given two years probation.

      But the judge stopped short of banning Skraba from the BWCAW for
three years, as the Forest Service had sought, saying it would hurt
his living as a fishing guide.

The mayor of Ely is promising to
end his decades of ignoring regulations in the Boundary Waters
Canoe Area Wilderness.


Ely mayor sentenced for BWCAW violations

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