 In June 2010 he sold to The Conservation Fund.The Fund has donated , at the top of the mountain, to the South Carolina Department of Natural Resources and intends to convey the rest of the to the North Carolina Forest Service.The Pisgah Quadrangle topographical map, revised 1904–1905, shows the long abandoned Sassafras Gap Road to be the preferred route through to Rosman, N.C. and Brevard, N.C. at the end of the 19th Century and that the existing Highway 178 was then a secondary road.