Longhorn AAP - Caddo Lake Refuge

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Army's former bomb plant soon to be animal refuge

By THOMAS KOROSEC
Houston Chronicle
May 2, 2004

KARNACK -- After 63 years, 414 million pounds of TNT and some disarmed
nukes, only Lanis Rieger remains.

"I'm the last one standing," says Rieger, a U.S. Army forest technician
at the Longhorn Army Ammunition Plant. "It's me and a forest full of
East Texas critters."

On Wednesday, Rieger's superiors are scheduled to sign over most of his
post, the 8,500-acre Longhorn plant site near Marshall, to the U.S. Fish
and Wildlife Service, which is forming its dense loblolly pine stands
and untouched cypress bayous into the Caddo Lake National Wildlife
Refuge.

"This is fantastic habitat," said Mark Williams, who is moving in as the
wildlife services refuge manager. "The Army cut pine sawtimber out of
here, and they did that fairly lightly. They were also dumping some
nasty stuff on the ground, which by the nature of what they were doing,
well, they were going to pollute."

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for the entire story, see
http://www.chron.com/cs/CDA/ssistory.mpl/metropolitan/2543392

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Lenny Siegel
Director, Center for Public Environmental Oversight
c/o PSC, 278-A Hope St., Mountain View, CA 94041
Voice: 650/961-8918 or 650/969-1545
Fax: 650/961-8918
<lsiegel@cpeo.org>
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