[CPEO-MEF] FORMER SITES: "Long-awaited Mount Umunhum opens to the public, " CA

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Long-awaited Mount Umunhum opens to the public
Its opening marks a new chapter for Midpeninsula Open Space District’s park system and a signal moment for a landscape that has played a major role in local history.

By LISA M. KRIEGER 
Bay Area News Group (CA)
September 19, 2017

MT. UMUNHUM - On a mountain peak long off-limits to the public, officials gathered on Saturday for a rare and breathtaking sight: a 360-degree view of the San Francisco Bay Area from Mount Umunhum, our newest jewel in the region’s park system.

Leaders of the civic, environmental and Native American communities streamed to the top of the 3,486-foot mountain, celebrating and snapping photos of a destination that has been 37 years and $25 million in the making.

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In the 1950s, the mountain’s top was leveled and terraced to become a bustling Air Force station of 220 service personnel and their families, scanning the western horizon for Russian bombers.

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For the entire article, see
http://www.mercurynews.com/2017/09/16/long-awaited-mount-umunhum-opens-to-the-public/

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Lenny Siegel
Executive Director
Center for Public Environmental Oversight
a project of the Pacific Studies Center
P.O. Box 998, Mountain View, CA 94042
Voice/Fax: 650/961-8918 
<lsiegel@cpeo.org>
http://www.cpeo.org

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