Cecil Garland fights the MX missile.
Military
The piercing sounds of war training assault visitors to Olympic National Park.
A photographer lovingly documents New Mexico’s desert national monument.
A bill could establish New Mexico’s second national park within a missile range.
A coalition of canyon lovers defeats the U.S. Air Force in
Idaho's Owyhee Canyon.
A reporter tours the chemical agent disposal facility at
Tooele Army Depot in Utah.
The Army's plans to incinerate deadly chemical weapons are
dangerous, expensive and irresponsible.
U.S. Army proposes new plan to drop 1-ton missiles in
Utah's San Juan County.
Missile test flights to White Sands, N.M., could have
significant land-use impacts, draft EIS shows.
Bombing range threatens wild land in Idaho, Nevada and
Oregon.
Idaho Governor Cecil Andrus supports new bombing range in
Owyhee Canyon.
A reporter chronicles the strange happenings (that we
shouldn't know about) at the top-secret Nevada Test Site.
The Air Force wants to designate much of Idaho's Owyhee
County as the Big Springs Training Range.
'Combat Zoning: Military Land-Use Planning in Nevada' by
David Loomis, is reviewed.
The Colorado Air National Guard offers a revised plan for
F-16 pilots at Redeye.
The army resumes chemical weapons testing at the Dugway
Proving Ground.
Rep. Karen Shepherd spearheads resistance to missile
flyovers in Utah.
The Army defends its plans to incinerate chemical weapons
stockpiles.
The military hears public comment on launching missile
tests from Green River, Utah, to White Sands, NM.
The Pentagon confirms chemical weapons testing on U.S.
soldiers during WWII.
The military wants to launch missiles from Utah into New
Mexico.
Navy target practice stops at a Washington coast wildlife
refuge.
Depleted uranium bullets threaten radioactive
contamination on military testing ranges.
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