2008 CPEO Military List Archive

From: Lenny Siegel <lennysiegel@gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 11 Apr 2008 09:30:29 -0700 (PDT)
Reply: cpeo-military
Subject: [CPEO-MEF] ENCROACHMENT: Quantico Marine Corps Base (VA) buffer
 
Merrimac Farm to open today

By Lillian Kafka
Potomac News (VA)
April 10, 2008

Merrimac Farm Wildlife Management Area, the first of its kind in 
Northern Virginia, officially opens today in Prince William County.

...

Today they will dedicate Merrimac Farm and commend the partnerships and 
dedication of those who persevered through at least five years of 
negotiations to preserve a span of varied habitats adjacent to the 
Marine Corps Base. The Department of the Navy's Federal Military 
Encroachment Partnering Program paid for $1,429,750 of the land. Another 
$820,773 came from a Virginia Land Conservation Foundation grant won by 
the Prince William Conservation Alliance. The Department of Game and 
Inland Fisheries paid $608,997, money that comes from hunting license fees.

...

For the entire article, see
http://www.insidenova.com/isn/news/local/article/merrimac_farm_to_open_today/13537/

-- 


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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