May 11th, 2008
New Call for Pinon Canyon Impact Statement Angers Ranchers
From the Pueblo Chieftain:
In the long standoff between Fort Carson planners and the ranchers trying to stop the Army’s expansion of the Pinon Canyon Maneuver Site, it doesn’t take much to set off the general alarm that the other side is up to something.
On Wednesday, the Army filed a notice in the Federal Register announcing that Fort Carson would do yet another environmental impact study based on the Pentagon’s decision to put a fifth infantry brigade (4,500 troops) at the Mountain Post. That is in addition to the four brigades of the 4th Infantry Division that will be based there. Read the rest>>
