[CPEO-MEF] REUSE: Push for Fort Ord (CA) National Monument

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Local activists head to D.C. to push for Fort Ord National Monument.
MR. SMITH GOES TO WASHINGTON

By Kera Abraham
Monterey County Weekly  (CA)
January 26, 2012

With more than 60 public agencies and a dozen-plus citizens' groups  
claiming a stake in the former Fort Ord, consensus on how to manage  
it is as rare as the black legless lizard. So the solidarity in a  
push to designate up to 14,650 acres as a national monument is  
something of a shocker; stakeholders from Fort Ord Reuse Authority to  
the Sierra Club are asking the feds to protect the U.S. Bureau of  
Land Management's Ford Ord acreage in perpetuity.

Next week, local activists Henrietta Stern of FORT Friends and Gordon  
Smith of Keep Fort Ord Wild are hoping to find as much agreement  
among the many federal agencies with a hand in the designation. At  
the invitation of the Conservation Lands Foundation, Stern and Smith  
are headed to Washington, D.C., from Jan. 30-Feb. 2. "The issue is  
making sure people understand why the public land needs to be  
protected," foundation spokeswoman Meghan Kissell says.


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For the entire article, see
http://www.montereycountyweekly.com/news/2012/jan/26/mr-smith-goes- 
washington/

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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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