[CPEO-MEF] "Extent of training delayed by tortoises still undecided" at 29 Palms Marine base, CA

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

MILITARY: Extent of training delayed by tortoises still undecided

By MARK MUCKENFUSS 
Riverside Press-Enterprise (CA)
April 2, 2016

The extent of military exercises in the Johnson Valley aren’t yet known about a month after a plan to move endangered desert tortoises out of the area was delayed, military officials told about 30 people at a meeting Saturday, April 2.

The delay, prompted by a legal challenge filed March 8, has put a crimp in utilizing 88,000 acres - part of land added to the Marine base in Twentynine Palms in 2013 - for an intended large-scale live-fire exercise in August.

Many of the attendees at Saturday’s meeting were off-road enthusiasts who expressed concern after the meeting about the training. The site of the training is an area that is shared between the military and off-roaders. military land. closed for two months during the year during training exercises.

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For the entire article, see
http://www.pe.com/articles/meeting-798758-area-tortoises.html

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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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