Results for keyword: Military Bases And Other Lands
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Western military bases still reporting for duty
Cannon Air Force Base in New Mexico and Ellsworth Air Force Base in South Dakota narrowly escape being shut down by the federal Base Realignment and Closure Commission
by Stephen J. Lyons, Sep 19, 2005 -
Military Base Closures in the West
Chart of military base closures in the West
by Staff, Aug 22, 2005 -
Leavin' on a Jet Plane
The Air Force wants to close Cannon Air Force Base, but the nearby town of Clovis, N.M., is not ready to let go of its main economic engine
by Stephen J. Lyons, Aug 22, 2005 -
The best memorial
The best memorial
by John Montagne, Jun 09, 2003 -
While the nation goes to war, the Pentagon lobs bombs at environmental laws
The military is seeking national security exemptions to federal environmental laws on the 25 million acres of land it controls
by Laura Paskus, Mar 31, 2003 -
Tortoises take on tanks
A proposed expansion of the Army's National Training Center at Fort Irwin, Calif., in the Mojave Desert could harm the endangered Lane Mountain milkvetch and the threatened desert tortoise.
by Laurel Jones, Jun 04, 2001 -
Bombs make way for 'burbs
Denver-area developers are eager to get their hands on the Front Range land preserved on the former Lowry Bombing Range.
by Victoria Peglar, Feb 12, 2001 -
Homesteaders sue over ancestral land
Over 50 years after the Manhattan Project and Los Alamos National Laboratory were built on land owned by Hispanic farmers, descendents of those farmers have sued the Dept. of Energy, saying they were illegally evicted.
by Barbara Ferry, Mar 27, 2000 -
See the secret desert
In Culver City, Calif., the Center for Land Use Interpretation is featuring an exhibit on Nevada's Nellis Air Force Bombing and Gunnery Range, home of the notorious - and mysterious - Area 51.
by Karen Mockler, Oct 25, 1999 -
Prairie dogs tunnel their way to a military stalemate
The Montana National Guard is stymied by prairie dogs threatening underground power lines and communications systems at Fort Harrison.
by Mark Matthews, Sep 01, 1997






