[CPEO-MEF] MUNITIONS: Limestone Hills (MT) scrap

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Stay off firing range, Montana Guard warns

By MARTIN J. KIDSTON
Helena Independent Record (MT)
September 9, 2008

Scrap metal collected from the Limestone Hills firing range found at a 
local recycling center has the military issuing new warnings about 
trespassing and the dangers of tampering with unexploded ordnance.

Cliff Youmans, the unexploded ordnance, or UXO, project leader for the 
Montana Guard, said a crate of scrap ordnance was recently confiscated 
from Pacific Steel by the military.

While the government won't likely prosecute anyone for theft of 
government property or for trespassing on federal land, he said, it 
could begin doing so if others attempt to salvage spent or unexploded 
ordnance from the firing range.

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For the entire article, see
http://www.helenair.com/articles/2008/09/09/top/55lo_080909_guard.txt

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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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