[CPEO-MEF] Skaggs Island

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

>From the Contra Costa Times (California)
Published Thursday, March 29, 2001 

Restoring an island's splendor

Fish and Wildlife wants Skaggs Island to return to its original
wetlands state but says the Navy should clean up its mess first 

By Yvonne Condes
TIMES STAFF WRITER 


SKAGGS ISLAND -- Off of a lonely stretch of Highway 37 amid hay fields
and salt marshes sits Skaggs Island.

Owls and rats nest in the abandoned shells of Navy homes and
administration buildings which once bustled with servicemen and families.

Some buildings expose massive holes blown out during training exercises.
Scavengers have stripped others of their staircases.

When Marge Kolar walks through the wreckage, she sees beyond the
buildings deserted in 1993 when the Navy shut down its communications center.

The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service manager sees a refuge for endangered
California clapper rail and salt marsh harvest mice.

for the entire article see

http://www.contracostatimes.com/news/environment/stories/skaggs_20010329.htm 



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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

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