[CPEO-MEF] ENCROACHMENT: Fort Huachuca's Buffalo Soldier Electronic Testing Range (AZ)

[Lenny Siegel <lennysiegel@gmail.com>]

Lawmaker: Allow land exchanges that preserve military bases

by Tarryn Mento
Cronkite News (AZ)
April 18, 2012

SIERRA VISTA, Ariz. -- Ringed by mountain ranges and largely  
undeveloped, the San Pedro Valley offers Fort Huachuca 2,500 square  
miles ideal for testing sensitive military electronics.

Business leaders like Dan Abrams in Sierra Vista, where thousands of  
jobs depend on the Army base, want to keep it that way.

"We're here because the military decided to make this their home many  
years ago, and without them, this town wouldn't even exist today,"  
said Abrams, a small business owner and Sierra Vista Economic  
Development Foundation board member.

Fort Huachuca's Buffalo Soldier Electronic Testing Range includes  
more than 500,000 acres of state trust land, which the Arizona  
Constitution mandates be leased or auctioned to benefit public  
education.

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For the entire story, see
http://ktar.com/6/1529545/Lawmaker-Allow-land-exchanges-that-preserve- 
military-bases

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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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