[CPEO-MEF] REALIGNMENT, BIOTA: Winkler Botanical Reserve, Alexandria (VA)

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Nature Preserve in the Crosshairs
Defense Department move threatens peaceful refuge

By JULIE CAREY
NBC TV News (Washington, DC)
December 11, 2009

Alexandria residents are figuratively taking up arms to make sure ramps 
and roads for a new military installation don't doom a cherished forest 
preserve.

Still under construction, the new building already looms over Interstate 
395 at the Seminary Road interchange in Alexandria's Mark Center. It's 
being built as part of the Base Realignment and Closure Plan.

By 2011, the first of 6,400 military employees will begin to report 
there. Trouble is, there's not a Metro stop in sight. Residents fear the 
commuters will overwhelm the neighborhood and gridlock the busy interchange.

...

For the entire story, see
http://www.nbcwashington.com/news/local-beat/Nature-Preserve-in-the-Crosshairs-79071412.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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