[CPEO-MEF] EXPANSION: Marine want off-road-vehicle area at 29 Palms, CA

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

TWENTYNINE PALMS: Marine expansion advances to off-roaders' dismay

BY MARK MUCKENFUSS
Riverside Press-Enterprise (CA)
August 1, 2012

Off-road enthusiasts said they are neither surprised nor happy about  
an environmental report that recommends handing a popular off-road  
area over to the U.S. Marine Corps for expanded training maneuvers.

The Marine Corps' Twentynine Palms training center expansion would  
shut off or curtail access to a majority of the Johnson Valley, one  
of Southern California's most used off-road vehicle recreation areas.

Marine Corps officials have said the training center must grow to  
permit maneuvers for a mid-size invasion force, including live-fire  
operations. About 146,000 acres west of the base's existing boundary  
would be annexed. Of that, 38,000 acres would still be available to  
public 10 months of the year, the report says.


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For the entire article, see
http://www.pe.com/local-news/san-bernardino-county/san-bernardino- 
county-headlines-index/20120801-twentynine-palms-marine-expansion- 
advances-to-off-roaders-dismay.ece

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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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