Military becomes wildlife defender

Los Angeles Times ^ | 4/27/13 | Louis Sahagun, Los Angeles Time

[NormsRevenge]

The Defense Department is working with environmental groups and local governments to create buffers around bases where development threatened to encroach on combat training.

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Many of the nation's 440 military bases were established in what were once sparsely populated hinterlands where soldiers trained without complaints from neighbors about the roar of warplanes and the sound of gunfire and explosions.

Now, with urban sprawl pushing up against perimeter fences, the U.S. Department of Defense has quietly become a major protector of wilderness and ranch lands. Working with conservation organizations and local governments, its Readiness and Environmental Protection Initiative has helped buy nearly $1 billion worth of land to create buffer zones around 64 military bases where development threatened to encroach on combat training.

The program has been a boon for conservation, creating more than 260,000 acres of new sanctuaries — off limits to development in perpetuity — for some of the rarest plants and animals on earth: the California red-legged frog, the Pacific pocket mouse, the Chorro creek bog thistle and, in North Carolina, rare longleaf pine habitat for the red-cockaded woodpecker.

[foundedonpurpose]

Or good for the environmentalists!

Please keep in mind the administration!

[CottShop]

[[The Defense Department is working with environmental groups and local governments to create buffers around bases where development threatened to encroach on combat training.]]

You gotta be friggin kidding me? No wonder wars can’t be fogyuth effectively any longer- Everyone’s too damn afraid of violating some pacifist’s ‘ethics’ code-

[CottShop]

[[Chipping away at private property rights one “buffer zone,” one wildlife refuge, one endangered stink bug at a time. ]]

Whiel the gun control bill was receivign all the attention- members of congress were votign on a measure of whether or not to allow a UN 800 page ‘land use’ plicy to be the law of the land here i nte US where the manual states that ‘environmentally sensitive areas are off limits to homes’ meanign that the govenrment gets to designate ‘environmentally sensitive’ areas, with hte eventual goal of confiscating private lands andm ovign peopel into living pens essentailly- much like public housing projects- The UN project is a massive attempt at confiscatign privately owned lands and makign that land off limits to citizens

It’s a UN proposal being ‘seriously considered’ ghere i nthe US- apparently we’re not a soverign nation anyl onger, and we’re o nthe verge of allowing hte UN to dictate our laws and land usages to us thansk to corrupt politicians

[CottShop]

[[In other words, they are trying to take other peoples private property rights. These buffers are nothing but takings.]]

Thatr’s exactly what the UN ideology is all about- declaring ‘buffer zones’ (ie: Confiscatign land that doesn’t belogn to htem) and makign it off limits to civilians, with hte eventual goal of herding peopel into cramped housing projects- all under the guise of being ‘environmentally sensitive’

[PeteB570]

I’ve been around Ft Bragg, NC since 1974. I’ve seen the development over the years as housing developments pushed west along the southern boundary of FT Bragg and the southern and eastern portion of Simmons AAF.

And Yes, folks will buy a home in one of those subdivisions and then complain about the artillery fire or aircraft noise on post.

The majority of the lands for the “buffer area” were purchased and then donated by various conservation groups. One of the largest is scheduled to become a new State Park that stretches from Ft Bragg to the Cape Fear River.

[PeteB570]

Link to the new Park

http://www.ncparks.gov/Visit/parks/cacr/main.php