[CPEO-IRF] Fort Meade (MD) golf courses

[Lenny Siegel <lennysiegel@gmail.com>]

Army to cut forests at Meade

Jason Flanagan
Baltimore Examiner (MD)
November 28, 2007


BALTIMORE - The U.S. Army will cut nearly 300 acres of forest to move 
sensitive departments at Fort Meade closer to the installation’s center 
and expand for incoming military employees.

The Army released its final report on how it will accommodate nearly 
6,000 new jobs and an additional 5 million square feet of office space 
accompanying the Base Realignment and Closure program.

The report listed environmental impacts, disturbance of wildlife and 
transportation as the most significant negative effects new construction 
will create.

The Army wants to build over its two golf courses in the center of the 
fort to make way for the new employees and buildings and to provide 
better security.

But all golf is not lost — Fort Meade will build two new golf courses on 
367 acres of wooded property near Route 175.

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For the entire article, see
http://www.examiner.com/a-1072621~Army_to_raze_forests_at_Meade.html

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Lenny Siegel
Executive Director, Center for Public Environmental Oversight
a project of the Pacific Studies Center
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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