[CPEO-MEF] ENCROACHMENT, HABITAT: Wildlife at Military Bases

[Lenny Siegel <lennysiegel@gmail.com>]

Pentagon Making Room for Wildlife at Military Bases

By DINA FINE MARON of Greenwire
New York Times
February 18, 2010

As residential development sprawls toward once-isolated military bases, 
the Pentagon finds itself managing mini-refuges for threatened and 
endangered animals and plants.

Consider Fort Benning, Ga., where the appearance of a state-protected 
gopher tortoise in the path of troops and tanks has been known to halt 
training exercises. It's Army policy to steer clear of the base's 3,000 
or so tortoises and keep track of their burrows, said John Brent, the 
base's chief of environmental management.

But watching out for tortoises and federally protected creatures is not 
a job the Department of Defense enjoys.

So DOD has formed odd-bedfellow alliances with environmentalists to 
protect habitat in hopes of keeping wildlife off the endangered species 
list by keeping development away from military bases.

...

For the entire article, see
http://www.nytimes.com/gwire/2010/02/18/18greenwire-pentagon-making-room-for-wildlife-at-military-29358.html

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Lenny Siegel
Executive Director, Center for Public Environmental Oversight
a project of the Pacific Studies Center
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