[CPEO-MEF] MUNITIONS: Duds at Sylvan Pass, Yellowstone Park (WY)

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Park's bombs litter slopes
Yellowstone can’t say how many unexploded shells lie above Sylvan Pass, or how to find them.

By Mike Koshmrl
Jackson Hole News & Guide(WY)
June 12, 2013

An untold number of dud artillery rounds litter the slopes of Yellowstone National Park’s Sylvan Pass but officials have no plan to find and safely detonate them as they prepare to continue their winter avalanche program.

Yellowstone can’t say how many of the duds, capable of propelling deadly shrapnel hundreds of yards, lie on the slopes of 10,000-foot Hoyt and Avalanche peaks. The park has rejected contractors’ bids for demolition because of the high cost and difficulty in finding the unexploded shells.

Avalanches have carried at least one live shell down to the highway, where it was found in the spring, an examination of park records obtained through the Freedom of Information Act shows. Despite the danger of what one document says may be some 300 unexploded rounds, Yellowstone is set to continue its bombing program under a plan that would safeguard no more than 27 visitors a day traveling to and from Cody.

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For the entire article, see
http://www.jhnewsandguide.com/article.php?art_id=9959

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Lenny Siegel
Executive Director, Center for Public Environmental Oversight
a project of the Pacific Studies Center
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Mountain View, CA 94041
Voice: 650-961-8918 or 650-969-1545
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