[CPEO-MEF] Air Force Academy (CO) and the Prebles meadow jumping mouse

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Habitat encroachment begets more oversight

By PAM ZUBECK
COLORADO SPRINGS GAZETTE (CO)
April 3, 2007

Procedures for environmental review and managing construction will be 
revised after an RV parking lot was built on habitat of the federally 
protected Prebles meadow jumping mouse.

The lot was built on the Air Force Academy's south side near a creek 
channel where Fish and Wildlife Service officials think the mouse lives.

The academy violated an agreement with Fish and Wildlife by failing to 
notify the agency before encroaching on the habitat. The violation 
carries no fine.

The lot intruded on less than half an acre of the academy's 3,500 acres 
reserved for the mouse, which is protected under the Endangered Species Act.

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For the entire article, see
http://www.gazette.com/onset?id=20830&template=article.html

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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>
http://www.cpeo.org


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