The Washington State Department of Natural Resources (DNR) announced Friday that the Skamania County Prosecutor's Office has filed documents charging local landowner Harvey Erickson and Dan Gustafson of A&B Rock Distributors, L.L.C. with first-degree theft.

The charges were filed because of their alleged criminal trespass on and theft of valuable materials from Washington State trust land at the end of Tote Road off the Washougal River Road in Skamania.