SANTA FE, N.M. (AP) — The legal mess that resulted after a historic northern New Mexico apple orchard was destroyed by wildfire and flooding in 2011 has been resolved.

According to a deal finalized Monday, former orchard operators Jim and Becky Mullane will receive $2 million to relinquish their 75-year lease on the orchard site and an adjacent 8,800 acres, the Albuquerque Journal reported (http://goo.gl/MhpJY9 ). Their family has run the Dixon’s Apple Orchard for decades.