*******************Here's the update *********************
Today was the day the USFS returned the waterline it removed 'as evidence' from the Gathering site about July 10 (during clean up), asserting it was acting to protect long standing water rights and that the Gathering was in violation of them. Fast forwarding past several months of legal communications...The return itself was amicable and respectful. After loading, I was simply required to document that I now was accepting custodial possession by creatively signing the pictured document. That meant crossing out the word 'owner' and writing in 'volunteer community custodian', and also reducing the word 'signature' to 'sign', and then signing with my eviscerated 'mark' as I have been doing consistently since beginning to study law more than two decades ago. (I know, complex... and it is...don't do it unless you really understand that stuff.
:-)
Anyway, the waterline is now 'returned' and that chapter is closed.
All parties are glad it is finished. PXXX is planning to relieve me
of it soon. Or perhaps other family wishes to be responsive? If so, get
with him.... 
