The sale of Camp Portaferry by Hiawatha Seaway Boy Scout Council to a hunting club is back on the table.

"We're talking," said John J. Morgia, president of Yellow Creek Hunt Club. "That's something we weren't doing before."

The sale for $1.2 million was supposed to be finalized last year, but talks between the Boy Scouts and Yellow Creek broke down more than a month ago with the hunting club's complaint that the boundary lines were unclear. The Scouts in turn blamed Yellow Creek for the delay in the closing.

"Hopefully, we're going to get this thing resolved," Mr. Morgia said. "I'm meeting with the president of the Scouts June 4."

Scout Executive Richard J. Avery Jr. was unavailable for comment.

Mr. Morgia said he thought the Scouts were working on matching the appraised value with actual acreage. Yellow Creek owns 500 acres next to the 450-acre Camp Portaferry.

The Scouts decided in September to sell Camp Portaferry near Harrisville to the hunting club as part of a camping consolidation plan.

In preparation for the transfer, Yellow Creek is working with the state Department of Environmental Conservation on a conservation easement.

"I think there's some questions the DEC needs answered, too," Mr. Morgia said.

The state views the conservation easement as a priority project, said Peter V. O'Shea, Fine, a member of the Region 6 Open Space Advisory Committee.

"The money is there," Mr. O'Shea said. "If it falls through, the state has the option of going with someone else or buying it outright, but they prefer an easement."

An easement would keep the camp property undeveloped while allowing hiking trails, a boat launch and use by the Scouts in the summer.

Even though developer Daniel M. Christmas has said he is no longer interested in the property, Mr. O'Shea worries that the camp is prime ground for a subdivision that would cut it off from public use.

"Christmas is in the wings," Mr. O'Shea said. "He's still waiting, that's what I feel, no matter what he says."