[CPEO-MEF] MUNITIONS, ENCROACHMENT: Camp Williams (UT) hunting,

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Hunters at risk on off-limits Camp Williams

By Stephen Speckman
Deseret News (UT)
October 25, 2008

The evidence is red: Trespassers or poachers leave behind blood or 
entrails from gutted deer they shot while illegally hunting on parts of 
the government-owned 27,000 acres known as Camp Williams.

With Utah's deer hunt in its waning days, camp officials are trying to 
spread the word that it's not only against the law to use their property 
for hunting, it's also dangerous.

"There's unexploded ordnance on Camp Williams," said Capt. Todd 
Christensen, operations officer at the camp.

People are accidentally or deliberately walking and driving onto 
property that for over 80 years has been used as a training base for all 
branches of the military.

...

For the entire article, see
http://deseretnews.com/article/1,5143,705257921,00.html

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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>
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