[CPEO-MEF] EXPANSION: Army abandons Pinon Canyon (CO) plan

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

[This is a victory for grassroots (or grass-fed-beef-roots)  
organizing. For background, see http://www.cpeo.org/pubs/ 
PinonCanyon.pdf. -LS]


Army, neighbors reach Piñon Canyon armistice

By Tom Roeder
Colorado Springs Gazette
November 25, 2013

PUEBLO - Officials from Las Animas County, the Army and Congress  
gathered here Monday to declare an armistice in the 10-year fight  
over Fort Carson's Piñon Canyon Maneuver Site.

At the urging of Sen. Mark Udall, a Boulder County Democrat, Army  
Assistant Secretary Katherine Hammack used the paperwork equivalent  
of a wooden stake to kill expansion plans for the 235,000-acre  
training site.

"It's kind of an emotional moment," said Las Animas County  
Commissioner Gary Hill, a rancher and neighbor of the training area  
who has been at war with the Army over expansion for years.

...

For the entire article, see
http://gazette.com/army-neighbors-reach-pion-canyon-armistice/article/ 
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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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