[CPEO-MEF] REUSE, NATURAL RESOURCES: National Monument proposed at Fort Ord (CA)

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Ken Salazar calls for Fort Ord national monument
Monterey County: Interior chief calls BLM land 'crown jewel'

By JULIA REYNOLDS
Monterey Herald (CA)
January 16, 2012

Interior Secretary Ken Salazar ended a visit to Monterey County on  
Friday with a call to President Barack Obama to designate Fort Ord as  
a national monument.
Conducting an informal poll of the audience in a town-hall type  
meeting in Marina, Salazar described the designation as the best way  
to conserve the coastal lands in perpetuity.

"Our best places in the United States ... are those where you have  
the kind of united community support that I see here today," Salazar  
told his audience after nearly 100 hands were raised in favor of the  
designation.

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For the entire article, see
http://www.montereyherald.com/local/ci_19742433

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