According to the Denver Post, real estate developer and land exchange artist Tom Chapman is working on a new deal. In the past he has threatened to build on wilderness inholdings in order to facilitate land swap deals, but he’s using a new pressure tactic with the Yankee Girl Mine property in Colorado’s San Juan Mountains. The Post writes: “Tom Chapman sent an e-mail to the Forest Service and conservation groups this week stating that the Yankee Girl’s new owners have decided to burn the historic structure… so it can be safely used for a ‘dream summer home’ with the ‘best panoramic views in the San Juans.’”

This is not the first time Chapman has made news for his tactics. Click for Tom Chapman’s past exploits as collected in HCN’s archives.