[CPEO-MEF] ENCROACHMENT, BIOTA: Camp Bullis (TX) buffer

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Army, Nature Conservancy strike deal on Bullis

By Sig Christenson
San Antonio Express-News (TX)
September 17, 2009

The Nature Conservancy and Fort Sam Houston were poised to announce 
today a five-year agreement to bolster Camp Bullis by finding and 
purchasing land to set aside as habitat for an endangered songbird.

Under the deal, the conservancy will look for land in a five-county area 
surrounding the 27,994-acre training range that is home to the 
endangered golden-cheeked warbler.

Fort Sam will buy the land with funds from the Army Compatible Use 
Buffer program. The post, in turn, will be able to clear parts of the 
camp's 10,000 acres that have been off-limits to training when the 
warbler nests there in the spring and summer.

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For the entire article, see
http://www.mysanantonio.com/military/59572302.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
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