[CPEO-MEF] REUSE, NATURAL RESOURCES: "Newport [Chemical Depot, IN] prairie an area worth saving"

[Lenny Siegel <lennysiegel@gmail.com>]

Newport prairie an area worth saving

Kenny Bayless
Terre Haute Tribune-Star (IN)
September 4, 2011

TERRE HAUTE - I can stand on my soap box for a long time when it  
comes to debating habitat

...

I met a very determined gentleman with a life mission he will not  
give up on. Phil Cox and a large group of other wonderful people are  
fighting a battle to get some government ground turned back into  
natural habitat at Newport.



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The habitat is a black-soil prairie or a tallgrass prairie. According  
to the Indiana Department of Natural Resources, "at one time 14  
percent of Indiana was covered with prairie grasses. Today, in the  
21st century, prairies and and the grassland animals dependent upon  
them are considered globally threatened."

...

For the entire column, see
http://tribstar.com/sports_columns/x803543017/REDNECK-QUAKER-Newport- 
prairie-an-area-worth-saving

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Lenny Siegel
Executive Director, Center for Public Environmental Oversight
a project of the Pacific Studies Center
278-A Hope Street, 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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