[CPEO-IRF] El Toro (CA) shooting range debate

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Activists target proposed firing range
Environmental groups oppose FBI effort to use land in O.C. that had been 
designated to be part of a wildlife refuge.

By David Reyes
Los Angeles Times
April 5, 2007

Southern California environmental groups have criticized an attempt by 
the FBI to build a permanent shooting range on land near the retired El 
Toro Marine base that once was designated to become part of a national 
wildlife refuge.

The land - which has been used as a temporary training facility by the 
FBI since the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks - was included in a 1996 
agreement that created a 37,000-acre nature reserve stretching from the 
Santa Ana Mountains to the Orange County coast.

The area where the FBI wants to build the permanent shooting range is on 
more than 1,000 acres owned, in part, by the Federal Aviation 
Administration.

...

For the entire article, see
http://www.latimes.com/news/printedition/california/la-me-range5apr05,1,7473768.story?coll=la-headlines-pe-california&ctrack=1&cset=true

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Lenny Siegel
Director, Center for Public Environmental Oversight
c/o PSC, 278-A Hope St., Mountain View, CA 94041
Voice: 650/961-8918 or 650/969-1545
Fax: 650/961-8918
<lsiegel@cpeo.org>
http://www.cpeo.org


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