[CPEO-MEF] RESOURCE MANAGEMENT: Pinon Canyon (CO)

[Lenny Siegel]

Army says it has been good steward in Pinon Canyon

By STEVEN K. PAULSON, The Associated Press
Examiner.com
January 14, 2009

KIM, Colo. -

Opponents of a proposed Army training site expansion in southern 
Colorado are disputing the military's claims that it has been a good 
steward of ranch land it seized by force in 1983.

They include Gene Schroder, a third-generation rancher and one of a 
dozen ranchers who owned a grazing association when troops in military 
helicopters swooped in and ordered them off 33,000 acres of their land 
at gunpoint. That land went to the Pinon Canyon Maneuver Site, operated 
by Fort Carson south of Colorado Springs.

"This isn't good stewardship. This is a fire hazard," Schroder said, 
pointing across the Purgatoire River during a recent field trip to 
swathes of wild plains where the Army conducts its training.

Schroder said he visited his former property a year ago - with Army 
permission - and found windmills trashed, fences in disrepair and weeds 
and grass growing rampant, posing a wildfire hazard. The land is located 
west of Kim, 190 miles southeast of Denver, where roadsides are dotted 
with signs saying that private property is not for sale to the Army.

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For the entire article, see
http://www.examiner.com/a-1794574~Army_says_it_has_been_good_steward_in_Pinon_Canyon.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
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