[CPEO-MEF] MUNITIONS: Camp Bonneville (WA) hunters find inert rocket

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

[A local activist wrote me: "So much for controlling the site with 
institutional controls." - LS]

By Erik Robinson
The Columbian (WA)
December 14, 2009


A trespassing hunter picked up this inert projectile at Camp Bonneville, 
which Clark County is trying to turn into a park.

Late last month, a trio of elk hunters took at an early stroll through a 
future county park.

They didn't bag an elk. However, they did score a 3.5-inch-diameter 
rocket, apparently picked up from an area near an old firing range at 
Camp Bonneville.

Cleanup contractors, working with the Washington Department of Fish and 
Wildlife, confiscated the projectile. A state game warden said Monday 
that the state's investigation is continuing, although trespassing 
charges appear likely.

The site is officially off-limits to the public.

...

For the entire article, see
http://www.columbian.com/news/2009/dec/14/trespassing-hunters-find-rocket-near-firing-range/


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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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