1) Conservation organizations are outraged by the US Air Force’s lack of respect to the public interest with the release of its final Environmental Impact Statement on a plan to expand its Nevada Test and Training Range into the Desert National Wildlife Refuge.
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2) The military already controls 2.9 million acres in Nevada with no public access allowed, and this proposal would shut the public out of another 300,000 acres.These pristine lands would be used for live bombing exercises, runways and ground warfare simulation.
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3) The Air Force’s refusal to take public input into consideration is inexcusable. “The Air Force is ignoring tens of thousands of people from Nevada and across the United States who urged them not to take this destructive step,
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4) It’s appalling that the refuge is being handed over for military industrialization, but we won’t let it go without a fight.”
@SenateDemshttps://www.sierraclub.org/press-releases/2018/10/conservation-organizations-oppose-military-expansion-desert-national-wildlife …
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1) More than 32,000 people have submitted comments opposing a military takeover of most of Nevada’s Desert National Wildlife Refuge ahead of a deadline today. The refuge was created more than 80 years ago to protect the largest herd of desert bighorn sheep in the United States.
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2) The Air Force wants to assume control of nearly 70 percent of the 1.6 million acre refuge to expand the vast Nevada Test and Training Range. Handing more than two-thirds of the refuge over to
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3) the military would strip protections for wildlife and wildlands and cut off public access. Desert National Wildlife Refuge, the largest national wildlife refuge in the lower 48 states, was designated by President Franklin D. Roosevelt
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4) in 1936 to protect the desert bighorn sheep, Nevada’s state mammal. It also provides vital habitat for a variety of vulnerable species, including the imperiled Mojave desert tortoise. “People from Nevada and across the United States
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5) are urging the Air Force not to take this destructive step,” said Patrick Donnelly, Nevada state director at the Center for Biological Diversity.
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5) “They love this wildlife refuge and they want bighorn sheep to remain protected. Not one acre of the refuge should be handed over for military industrialization.”https://www.biologicaldiversity.org/news/press_releases/2018/desert-bighorn-sheep-03-08-2018.php …
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Bombing test range in Desert National Wildlife Refuge home of bighorn sheep is wrong! Every person in the Trump administration are self-serving, devoid of empathy destroyers of the environment wildlife & it's habitat
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