[CPEO-MEF] MUNITIONS, FORMER SITES: Blue Mountain (MT) munitions response

[Lenny Siegel <lennysiegel@gmail.com>]

Crews comb Blue Mountain for old munitions, unexploded ordnance

By ROB CHANEY
The Missoulian (MT)
July 13, 2011

Blue Mountain probably wasn't named for all the blue grenade rounds  
in its grasslands, but it could have been.

Blue was the color indicating a practice load for military training  
exercises that took place for 50 years on the mountainside south of  
Missoula. This week, guys in bright yellow vests are prowling the  
recreation area looking for those old munitions and perhaps more  
dangerous explosives.

"This is one of the suspect areas we're definitely going to  
investigate," said Weston Solutions project supervisor Rick Logsdon,  
who leads the dozen-man unexploded ordnance team.

The intersection of trails 3.24 and 3.09 looks like some form of  
agrarian chicken pox has broken out. Dozens of red flags poke out of  
the dirt road and the grass on either side.


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For the entire article, see
http://missoulian.com/news/local/article_cdf9864e- 
adbf-11e0-9481-001cc4c002e0.html
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Lenny Siegel
Executive Director, Center for Public Environmental Oversight
a project of the Pacific Studies Center
278-A Hope Street, Mountain View, CA 94041
Voice: 650-961-8918 or 650-969-1545
Fax: 650-961-8918
<lsiegel@cpeo.org>
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