[CPEO-MEF] ENCROACHMENT: Fallon Naval Air Station (NV) buffer

[Lenny Siegel <lennysiegel@gmail.com>]

Centennial ranch in Fallon protected by Nevada Land Conservancy with 
conservation easement


By Submitted by the Nevada Land Conservancy
Lahontan Valley News (NV)
August 7, 2008

A bit of ranching history has been preserved in Churchill County with 
the permanent protection of the Cushman-Corkill Ranch in Fallon.

Family members sought a conservation easement to preserve the property 
as a working ranch and also to protect it from development, and the 
Nevada Land Conservancy, a local nonprofit land trust, was able to 
secure funding to purchase and hold a conservation easement in perpetuity.

The 430-acre Corkill ranch, located in a prime agricultural area, was 
one of several properties identified by Naval Air Station Fallon as 
important to protect in order to secure a buffer zone around the base 
against future urban development and challenges to military activities.

...

For the entire article, see
http://www.lahontanvalleynews.com/article/20080807/NEWS/134573543/1055&ParentProfile=1045

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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
<lsiegel@cpeo.org>
http://www.cpeo.org



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