[CPEO-MEF] Castner Range (TX)

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

After 40 Years, Castner's Fate Is at Hand

by Sito Negron
El Paso Newspaper Tree (TX)
January 9, 2006

If you drive to Northeast El Paso along the Patriot Freeway, or take
Trans Mountain from the West Side, you will see Castner Range. You may
not realize the significance of what you are seeing, unless someone
points it out, but you likely will feel the visual impact of such a
large open space inside the city.

The range is a former Fort Bliss training ground, littered with
unexploded ordnance, that the military stopped using in 1966. It is the
undeveloped stretch of land you'll see on the other side of the Patriot
Freeway from Cohen Stadium, an open swath from the flat desert to the
foothills to the high mountain slopes, hemmed in by the strip malls and
subdivisions of Northeast El Paso. 

In spring, golden poppies bloom there, a scene that has become iconic.
Visitors flock to the Wilderness Park Museum, off Trans Mountain, to
walk among the flowers; further up Trans Mountain, El Pasoans pull off
the road and hike up a ravine to Cottonwood Springs, to sit amongst trees.

...

For the entire article, see
http://www.newspapertree.com/view_article.sstg?c=9bcb57d56124498a&mc=793363036aa448eb

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Lenny Siegel
Director, Center for Public Environmental Oversight
c/o PSC, 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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