[Military Environmental Forum] MUNITIONS, FIRE, FORMER SITES: "Where did Boise Foothills’ [ID] unexploded munitions come from? Who’s cleaning them up? "

[Lenny Siegel <Lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Where did Boise Foothills’ unexploded munitions come from? Who’s cleaning them up? 

By Matan Josephy 
Idaho Statesman
July 21, 2026

Firefighters facing off against the Claremont Fire recently had to contend with an unexpected new risk: decades-old unexploded military munitions scattered throughout the Boise Foothills. 

But where did these munitions come from? How long have they been there? And why haven’t they been cleaned up? 

The heat set off by the fire — which has burned some 6,800 acres — led the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers to worry that the munitions could suddenly explode, according to corps spokesperson Leanne Langeberg. In response, firefighters in the Foothills were ordered to briefly stand down on the morning of July 13 amid safety concerns, though returned to fighting the blaze that afternoon.


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For the entire article, see
https://www.idahostatesman.com/news/local/article316553139.html



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Lenny Siegel
Executive Director
Center for Public Environmental Oversight
A project of the Pacific Studies Center
LSiegel@cpeo.org
P.O. Box 998, Mountain View, CA 94042
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Author: DISTURBING THE WAR: The Inside Story of the Movement to Get Stanford University out of Southeast Asia - 1965–1975 (See http://a3mreunion.org)





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