[CPEO-MEF] Missile-Range Grazing Stops

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http://www.abqjournal.com/news/243736news02-06-01.htm

Tuesday, February 6, 2001 

Missile-Range Grazing Stops 

The Associated Press
ALAMOGORDO — Grazing is ending in a 2-mile-wide buffer zone that separates
private ranching land from White Sands Missile Range as the federal government
fences off the missile range.

"Shoot, they're taking two-thirds of this ranch," said John Cherry, stepfather
of one of the three owners of the Lazy S 3 Ranch west of Tularosa. "And there's
not gonna be any left that's got any grass on it. All the good grass was
further out."

What is now White Sands Missile Range grew out of the Alamogordo Bombing Range,
formed in 1942 during World War II to train pilots. Otero County ranchers were
moved off land in the Tularosa Basin to make way for the bombing range.

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