[CPEO-MEF] Fort Ord (CA) burn planned

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Fiery cleanup for old base
Fort Ord: Today's planned burn to clear vegetation, reveal ordnance

By KEVIN HOWE
Monterey Herald (CA)
October 19, 2006

The Army plans to torch approximately 58 acres of dry brush in Fort 
Ord's Parker Flats area today -- weather permitting -- or sometime in 
the next several days.

Helicopters and firefighting equipment have been mobilized to keep the 
burn under control, said Army authorities.

The burn's purpose is to clear vegetation between Eucalyptus and Parker 
Flats roads west of Watkins Gate Road, an area known as Munitions 
Response Site 16, so cleanup crews can remove unexploded munitions and 
ordnance left over from when Fort Ord was an Army training center and 
infantry post.

The prescribed burns are part of the process devised to clean up what 
was one of the Army's largest bases and to preserve much of it for 
habitat conservation. Not only are the fires necessary to clear 
ordnance, they are conducted to regenerate chaparral habitat used by 
endangered and threatened species. Species include sand gilia, the 
Monterey spineflower and the Seaside bird's beak.

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For the entire article, see
http://www.montereyherald.com/mld/montereyherald/news/local/15795332.htm

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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>
http://www.cpeo.org


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