[CPEO-MEF] Navy drops bombing proposal at Hunter-Liggett

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Published Friday, Nov. 16, 2001, in the San Jose Mercury News 

Navy: No bomb range near Big Sur

ADMIRAL SAYS PRACTICE SITE NOT NEEDED; FOES HAIL REVERSAL

BY PAUL ROGERS
Mercury News 

The U.S. Navy on Thursday withdrew a proposal to build a new bombing
range for fighter jets near the Big Sur coast, drawing cheers from
environmentalists, Benedictine monks and local politicians who had
called it a threat to wildlife, tourism and the area's famous solitude.

Adm. Thomas Fargo, commander of the Pacific Fleet, dropped the plan
because it was no longer needed, Navy officials said.

First unveiled in January, the proposal had called for 2,820 sorties, or
round trips, a year by F/A-18 Hornet fighter planes. The jets would have
flown from a naval air station in Lemoore, near Fresno, to Fort Hunter
Liggett, a former Army tank base in southern Monterey County.

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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
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