[CPEO-MEF] ENCROACHMENT, BIOTA - California desert range expansion

[Lenny Siegel <lennysiegel@gmail.com>]

Bases aim to expand
More High Desert land eyed for training troops

Lauren McSherry
San Bernardino Sun (CA)
March 8, 2008

Two military bases in the High Desert are undertaking expansion plans 
that will widen the territory used for war games crucial to training 
soldiers and Marines being deployed to Iraq and Afghanistan.

The Marine Corps Air Ground Combat Center in Twentynine Palms has 
announced its intention to extend its boundaries. The process could take 
years.

Gunnery Sgt. Chris Cox, a public affairs officer, estimated that 50 
percent of the combat center - which encompasses 932 square miles, an 
area about half the size of Rhode Island - is unusable.

This is because tracts of land are too mountainous, provide habitat for 
endangered species or are too close to civilian areas, which would be 
disturbed by the noise and tremors that accompany explosions.

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For the entire article, see
http://www.sbsun.com/sanbernardino/ci_8508079

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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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