[CPEO-MEF] Sen. Salazar (CO) and encroachment

[Lenny Siegel <lennysiegel@gmail.com>]

Salazar urges air bases to beef up buffer zones
Ken Salazar says development could handcuff Air Force bases.

By Ed Sealover, The Gazette
Rocky Mountain News (CO)
October 9, 2007

LAKEWOOD - Colorado's Air Force bases need to move more quickly to keep 
encroaching development from threatening their future, U.S. Sen. Ken 
Salazar said Monday.

The Colorado Democrat's comments came as he finds himself in the middle 
of a battle over whether the Army should study expansion of its Piñon 
Canyon Maneuver Site in Las Animas County, a move that could wipe out 
hundreds of thousand of acres of surrounding farmland.

Proponents have suggested that stopping the expansion could hurt Fort 
Carson in future rounds of base closures, although Salazar said he 
believes that will not be the case.

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For the entire article, see
http://www.rockymountainnews.com/drmn/local/article/0,1299,DRMN_15_5717828,00.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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