Mediation will take place to attempt to figure out how to move forward with a land trade between the U.S. Forest Service and Mount Hood Meadows.  The Hood River Valley Residents Committee earlier this summer filed suit in federal court to try to move along the trade.  Congress in 2009 gave the Forest Service 16 months to complete the trade of 770 acres of land near Cooper Spur owned by Mount Hood Meadows for 120 acres of developable national forest land near Government Camp, but numerous delays have held it up, most recently over some environmental protections.  Hood River Valley Residents Committee Executive Director Heather Staten says the mediation will focus on a conservation easement over wetlands on the Government Camp parcels.  A requirement for a conservation easement was included in the Act at the request of environmental groups, including the Residents Committee, but Staten says the Forest Service has proposed restrictions far in excess of what was contemplated by the conservation groups, which in turn may drive down the value of the parcel in Government Camp.  Mt. Hood Meadows has balked at the terms of the proposed easement.  The mediation is set to take place in the next 30 days.