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- <title>
- Jan. 15, 1990: Business Notes:Real Estate
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- <history>
- TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1990
- Jan. 15, 1990 Antarctica
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- <article>
- <source>Time Magazine</source>
- <hdr>
- BUSINESS, Page 49
- Business Notes
- REAL ESTATE
- Bomb, Bomb On the Range
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- <body>
- <p> Cattle ranchers and environmentalists are usually as much
- at odds as the Hatfields and the McCoys. Yet in America's West,
- everyone from cowboys to tree huggers is suddenly joining
- forces against a common foe: the Pentagon. The Defense
- Department is seeking to add 4.6 million acres of wilderness
- to the 25 million acres of public land reserved for such
- military uses as war games and bombing ranges. Claiming a need
- for more space to create realistic battle simulations, the
- military covets parcels in eight states, including California,
- Nevada and Montana.
- </p>
- <p> Angry conservationists are predicting that tanks, planes and
- infantrymen will wreak havoc with the environment. Ranchers
- fear the destruction of prime grazing land. But because only
- two of the 19 proposed land acquisitions require congressional
- approval, the Pentagon is likely to prevail. Declares Minnesota
- Congressman Bruce Vento: "They're going to listen to the
- public, but in the end they'll do what they want."
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- </body>
- </article>
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