[CPEO-MEF] EXPANSION: 29 Palms Marine Base (CA) vs. Off-Roaders

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Marine expansion plans don't sit well with off-roaders


By DAVID DANELSKI
Riverside Press-Enterprise (CA)
December 4, 2008

VICTORVILLE - Off-roading enthusiasts and military officials appeared to 
be on a collision course Thursday at a meeting hosted by the Marine 
Corps, which plans a major expansion of its training center at 
Twentynine Palms.

The Marines shared five expansion scenarios for enlarging the center, 
but the one that works best for maneuvers and live-fire training takes 
in all or part of the Johnson Valley, a 189,000-acre mecca for 
off-roaders in the San Bernardino County desert southeast of Barstow.

The revelation didn't go over well with many of the 167 people, most of 
them off-roaders, who attended the meeting in a hotel conference room.



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For the entire article, see
http://www.pe.com/localnews/rivcounty/stories/PE_News_Local_E_expand05.454b4e3.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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