From: | Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org> |
Date: | Wed, 15 Dec 2010 08:16:14 -0800 (PST) |
Reply: | cpeo-military |
Subject: | [CPEO-MEF] REUSE, HABITAT: Newport Chemical Depot (IN) tallgrass prairie |
[The Army spent taxpayer money conducting an award-winning prairie
restoration at Indiana's Newport Chemical Depot. Now, with transfer and
reuse, there is a chance that most of the restored prairie will be
destroyed. - LS]
Society aims to preserve Newport Depot tallgrass prairie 336 acres of tallgrass land was restored by Army Howard Greninger Terre Haute Tribune-Star (IN) December 15, 2010NEWPORT - Several groups advocating the preservation of the largest contiguous black-soil restored tallgrass prairie in Indiana say their concerns have fallen on deaf ears and now hope the U.S. Army will take action. The Newport Chemical Depot Reuse Authority voted in November 2009 to adopt a plan on how best to use 11 square miles at the former Army weapons facility that once produced and stored VX nerve agent in Vermillion County. The Army is expected to turn over the property to the Reuse Authority next year, pending final reviews. However, Phillip W. Cox, conservation chair for the Wabash Valley Audubon Society, said the reuse plan would destroy all but about 44 acres of the restored black-soil tallgrass prairie, with the rest used for row crop agriculture or designated for future business development. ... For the entire article, see http://tribstar.com/news/x1168754094/Society-aims-to-preserve-Newport-Depot-tallgrass-prairie -- 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> http://www.cpeo.org _______________________________________________ Military mailing list Military@lists.cpeo.org http://lists.cpeo.org/listinfo.cgi/military-cpeo.org | |
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