[CPEO-MEF] Piñon Canyon Maneuver Site, Colorado

[Lenny Siegel <lennysiegel@gmail.com>]

Letters blast Piñon expansion

By TOM ROEDER
Colorado Springs Gazette
August 13, 2007

A lengthy government document available online this week has little to 
do with the expansion plan for Fort Carson's Piñon Canyon Maneuver Site.

But it speaks volumes about how some people in southeast Colorado view 
the Army's aspirations to buy 418,000 acres east of Trinidad.

The document describes increases in noise, traffic and other 
disturbances that will come as an additional 10,000 soldiers use the 
existing training area in years to come under a Pentagon plan to add 
troops to Fort Carson. It also says how the Army will work to preserve 
the environment there.

But 500 pages of public comments added at the end of the environmental 
impact statement mostly express rage over Army plans to increase the 
size of the training area from 367 to 1,020 square miles. Those comments 
don't include more than 3,300 form letters the Army received on the 
expansion issue.


...

For the entire article, see
http://www.gazette.com/articles/army_26012___article.html/expansion_statement.html


See also

Pinon expansion foes turn fire on senators
Salazar, Allard berated for stance on Army's use of eminent domain to 
enlarge training facility.

By TAMMY ALHADEF
THE PUEBLO CHIEFTAIN
August 14, 2007

KIM - Foes of the Army's plan to expand its Pinon Canyon Maneuver Site 
call recent proposals by Colorado's U.S. senators to restrict the Army's 
use of eminent domain for land acquisition "misleading and ineffective."

Lon Robertson, president of the Pinon Canyon Expansion Opposition 
Coalition, said Monday attempts by Democrat Ken Salazar and Republican 
Wayne Allard to limit the use of condemnation but still allow the 
414,000-acre expansion to proceed were unworkable.

Such a course of action would guarantee that Southern Colorado ranches 
eventually would be seized by the military, Robertson said.

He wants to know why the Colorado senators are supporting what he called 
"a destructive proposal."

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For the entire article, see
http://www.chieftain.com/metro/1187098146/6


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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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