[CPEO-MEF] REUSE, MUNITIONS: Fort Ord National Monument (CA) "warns of illegal trails near 'unexploded' grenades"

[Lenny Siegel]

California park warns of illegal trails near 'unexploded’ grenades

By Olivia Harden
San Francisco Chronicle (CA)
March 28, 2024

Fort Ord National Monument in Marina on the Central Coast served as a military base for the U.S. Army between 1917 and 1994, and 1.5 million soldiers trained there over the years. But recently, U.S. Army safety officials said visitors have built illegal trails and bike jumps west of Barloy Canyon Road. Visitors could be in danger of running into “munitions and explosives of concern,” including “artillery projectiles, rockets, hand grenades, practice land mines, pyrotechnics, bombs, demolition materials and other items,” according to the Fort Ord Cleanupproject.

“Unauthorized trail building and use of unsigned paths at the Fort Ord National Monument is dangerous,” Fort Ord National Monument Manager Eric Morgan said in a news release. “Creating illegal routes exposes visitors to unexploded ordnance hazards, destroys endangered plants and wildlife habitat, and is costly to remedy.”


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For the entire article, see
https://www.sfgate.com/california-parks/article/fort-ord-warn-illegal-trails-munitions-19373922.php

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Lenny Siegel
Executive Director
Center for Public Environmental Oversight
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LSiegel at cpeo.org
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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)