Alameda Refuge

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

ALAMEDA REFUGE DOCUMENTS RELEASED

The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service has just released two major planning
documents for the proposed Alameda National Wildlife Refuge, which will
cover a significant portion of the former Alameda Naval Air Station, in
the central San Francisco Bay Area. Both the draft "Comprehensive
Conservation Plan" and Environmental Assessment are available at the
Service's website, http://www.r1.fws.gov/planning/plnhome.html/.

The Fish and Wildlife Service is considering three management
alternatives for the 565 acres of land and 413 acres of water to be
transferred by the Navy. The preferred alternative would optimize
Wildlife Management and Wildlife-Dependent Public Uses. A major goal of
the Refuge is to protect and expand the nesting habitat of the
California Least Tern, an endangered species that established itself on
the property under the Navy protection.

One of the Naval Air Station's runways would be abandoned, while the
other, outside the Refuge boundaries, would be maintained to allow for
one or two flights a year, to bring planes into the planned aviation
museum.

Lenny Siegel
Director, Center for Public Environmental Oversight
c/o PSC, 222B View St., Mountain View, CA 94041
Voice: 650/961-8918 or 650/969-1545
Fax: 650/968-1126
lsiegel@cpeo.org
http://www.cpeo.org