By Jane Braxton Little, Sacramento Bee

SUSANVILLE — A decadelong legal battle over a controversial four-season resort on Dyer Mountain has ended with a settlement agreement reached between Lassen County, Sierra Pacific Industries and three environmental groups.

The county and the timber company, which bought the 7,000-acre property in 2013, agreed to pay $519,000 to Sierra Watch, Mountain Meadows Conservancy and the Sierra Club, said Richard Egan, Lassen County administrative officer.

The payments were sent this week, he said Thursday.

The settlement, approved last month in a closed session of the Lassen County Board of Supervisors, ends the environmentalists’ challenge of the development, planned to include ski facilities, golf courses, 600,000 square feet of commercial space and more than 4,000 residential units.

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