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Yuma's Army site expansion seen as environment peril

The Arizona Daily Star

YUMA — A military training facility could expand its boundaries by up to 500,000 acres, potentially crossing into several protected wilderness areas, authorities said.

The U.S. Army has been looking into enlarging the 840,000-acre Yuma Proving Ground, about 30 miles northeast of Yuma, where the military tests weapons and hardware.

Officials there want to be able to test artillery with greater firing ranges than weapons used there now, said Chuck Wullenjohn, public-affairs officer for the proving ground.

Posted by Editor at June 8, 2007 07:22 AM

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