Re: [CPEO-MEF] Buffer zones

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

The entire Wall Street Journal article may be found at
http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/07024/756411-28.stm

LS

Lenny Siegel wrote:
> Another Shade of Green:
> Military Aids Nature Lovers
>
> By JIM CARLTON
> Wall Street Journal
> January 24, 2007
>
> COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. -- When the Pentagon carved Fort Carson out of 
> juniper-covered ranchland during World War II, the Army training camp 
> was miles away from the town of Colorado Springs on the Front Range of 
> the Rockies.
>
> But this once-sleepy area has since exploded into a metropolis of more 
> than a half million residents, enveloping much of Fort Carson's northern 
> boundary. Tract homes and strip malls have crept close to the base's 
> southeastern border. That leaves the 137,000-acre Fort Carson almost 
> hemmed in by suburbanites, some of whom have complained about the sounds 
> of bombing and other combat training.
>
> So the Army has called in an unlikely ally: environmentalists. Through a 
> little-known act of Congress, Army officials are tapping into a fund to 
> help provide the Nature Conservancy and Colorado state agencies with 
> money to buy remaining undeveloped land around Fort Carson. The goal: to 
> set up a buffer zone against future sprawl. The Army has contributed $9 
> million to keep development off about 10,000 acres around Fort Carson, 
> or about a third of its total goal.
>
> ...
>
> The entire article is available only to subscribers at
> http://www.wsj.com


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Lenny Siegel
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