[CPEO-MEF] Update on Camp Ripley (MN) buffer

[Lenny Siegel <lennysiegel@gmail.com>]

Camp Ripley buffer prevents stifling boom

By Kirsti Marohn
St. Cloud Times (MN)
January 27, 2008

LITTLE FALLS - Where Dale Nelson grew up, it wasn't uncommon to hear 
artillery booming in the distance.

It wasn't in a war-torn foreign country, but on a Darling Township farm 
in rural Morrison County — just a couple of miles from Camp Ripley, the 
primary training facility for the Minnesota National Guard.

"I've lived here my whole life," Nelson said. "It might bother new 
people moving in, but it don't bother me."

Nelson is one of 25 landowners who have enrolled some or all of their 
land in a program designed to create a buffer around Camp Ripley to 
ensure development doesn't interfere with the camp's operations.

...

For the entire article, see
http://www.sctimes.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080127/NEWS01/101270039/1009

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Lenny Siegel
Executive Director, Center for Public Environmental Oversight
a project of the Pacific Studies Center
278-A Hope St., Mountain View, CA 94041
Voice: 650/961-8918 or 650/969-1545
Fax: 650/961-8918
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