[CPEO-MEF] EXPANSION: 29 Palms (CA) and off-road vehicle areas

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

MOJAVE DESERT: Military seeks OHV area for exercises

By DAVID DANELSKI
Riversdide Press-Enterprise (CA)
February 25, 2011
The military wants to expand its Twentynine Palms training grounds to  
take in more than two-thirds of the popular Johnson Valley off-road  
recreation area southeast of Barstow, according to U.S. Marine Corps  
documents released Friday.

Under the Marines' preferred plan to expand the Marine Corps Air  
Ground Combat Center, the military would control 146,667 acres in the  
Johnson Valley that now is a designated off-highway vehicle  
recreation area. The valley draws tens of thousands of off-road  
enthusiasts each year.

The 932-square-mile combat center also could add another 21,304 acres  
at its southeast corner, northeast of Twentynine Palms.

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For the entire article, see
http://www.pe.com/localnews/stories/ 
PE_News_Local_D_expansion26.23407cb.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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