2008 CPEO Military List Archive

From: Lenny Siegel <lennysiegel@gmail.com>
Date: Sat, 9 Aug 2008 00:42:39 -0700 (PDT)
Reply: cpeo-military
Subject: [CPEO-MEF] ENCROACHMENT: Fallon Naval Air Station (NV) buffer
 
Centennial ranch in Fallon protected by Nevada Land Conservancy with conservation easement


By Submitted by the Nevada Land Conservancy
Lahontan Valley News (NV)
August 7, 2008

A bit of ranching history has been preserved in Churchill County with the permanent protection of the Cushman-Corkill Ranch in Fallon.

Family members sought a conservation easement to preserve the property as a working ranch and also to protect it from development, and the Nevada Land Conservancy, a local nonprofit land trust, was able to secure funding to purchase and hold a conservation easement in perpetuity.

The 430-acre Corkill ranch, located in a prime agricultural area, was one of several properties identified by Naval Air Station Fallon as important to protect in order to secure a buffer zone around the base against future urban development and challenges to military activities.

...

For the entire article, see
http://www.lahontanvalleynews.com/article/20080807/NEWS/134573543/1055&ParentProfile=1045

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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
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