[CPEO-MEF] ENCROACHMENT: Nellis Air Force Base (NV)

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Area's growth a threat to Nellis
Base tries to work with local governments but lacks clout

By Megan McCloskey
Las Vegas Sun (NV)
December 8, 2008


The Las Vegas of 1941, when the Strip was still U.S. 91 and not even 
10,000 people lived here, seemed a practical place to build a military base.

The notion that it would be overtaken by suburban sprawl remained 
far-fetched for decades.

But then the 1990s came, and no other metropolitan area in the country 
grew faster than the Las Vegas Valley, and it has remained among the top 
five fastest-growing since 2000.

And today it seems on an inexorable collision course with Nellis Air 
Force Base, one of the nation's most important combat-training bases.

...

For the entire article, see
http://www.lasvegassun.com/news/2008/dec/08/areas-growth-threat-nellis/

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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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