[GreenFreeper]

The blue-winged grasshopper is one of the many endangered species that thrive in U.S. military training areas in Germany.

Without the disturbance of troops and equipment, training areas in Germany would revert to forests, which are not as biologically diverse as most people think, researchers found.

Research indicates the yellow-bellied toad, an endangered species, is found in far larger numbers at U.S. training areas in Bavaria than at nearby federal parks and preserves.

The Military has really ramped up efforts aimed at preservation. The DOD is one of the few agencies actually hiring additional biologists and ecologists!

[GreenFreeper]

ECO-PING

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[Gefreiter]

GF,
Had a couple run-ins with boars at Hohenfels and at Graf. I once saw a whole tank platoon with support vehicles waiting to cross an intersection, while wheeled traffic lined up both ways on the hardball, to wait for a boar sow and a line of...boarlets?...to cross the road.

Anyone else remember boars at the CMTC, Graf, or Wildchicken?

[manwiththehands]

Stories like this must drive the anti-military environmentalists NUTS!

[Termite_Commander]

That's certainly an interesting relationship. Good post.