[CPEO-MEF] EXPANSION: Navy/Marines issue decision for Twenty-Nine Palms (CA)

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Navy expansion could halt King of the Hammers event

by K Kaufmann 
Desert Sun (CA)
February 13, 2013 

Less than a week after the King of the Hammers off-road race in Johnson Valley, the U.S. Navy on Wednesday issued its decision on a proposed expansion of the Marine Corps Air Ground Combat Center in Twentynine Palms that could put a brake the popular event as well as all off-roading in the high desert.

The official record of decision, which Marine officials said will be available online today, endorses a plan that would give the Corps more than half the 188,000 acres of public off-roading area located about 20 miles north of Yucca Valley. Bumping up on the western boundary of the base, the land is now under the protection of the U.S. Bureau of Land Management.

As outlined in a previous environmental impact report released in July, 108,530 acres of the valley would be permanently closed to off-roaders and used instead for training exercises involving thousands of Marines, along with tanks, helicopters and live ammunition.

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For the entire article, see
http://www.mydesert.com/article/20130213/BUSINESS/302130004/

"Also read the U.S. Navy’s record of decision at 
www.29palms.marines.mil/ staff/G4InstallationsandLogistics/Land Acquisition.aspx"

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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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