Fort Irwin National Training Center Expansion

Resources Imperiled by the Fort Irwin Expansion

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Tortoise in tracks

December 29, 2006: Biological Opinion for Translocation Of Desert Tortoises From the Southern Expansion Area of Fort Irwin to Occupied Habitat, San Bernardino County, California (1-8-05-F-43)

February 10, 2006: Desert Tortoise Translocation Plan for Fort Irwin’s Land Expansion Program at the U. S. Army National Training Center and Fort Irwin. U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service Review and Approval

July 29, 2005: Desert Tortoise Translocation Plan for Fort Irwin’s Land Expansion Program at the U. S. Army National Training Center (NTC) & Fort Irwin

March 15, 2004: Biological Opinion for the Proposed Addition of Maneuver Training Lands at Fort Irwin, California (1-8-03-F-48)

July 7, 2002: Federal judge orders FWS to designate critical habitat for the endangered Lane Mountain Milkvetch

February 8, 2002: Scoping comments on the supplemental draft Environmental Impact Statement from the Desert Tortoise Preserve Committee and Desert Tortoise Council (pdf file)

November 2001 - January 2002: Army holds public "scoping" meeting on the supplemental draft Environmental Impact Statement in Barstow, Riverside and Pasadena

October 2001: Environmental Coalition Urges Defense Authorization Bill Conferees to Modify Fort Irwin Expansion Legislation

July 26, 2001: Environmental Coalition ALERT on Proposed Fort Irwin Expansion Legislation

July 16, 2001: Coalition Press Release on Proposed Military Lands Withdrawal Act of 2001

Proposed Fort Irwin Military Lands Withdrawal Act of 2001

Proposed Expansion Plan for Fort Irwin (added July 16, 2001)

June 27, 2001: Sign-on coalition letter opposing Fort Irwin Expansion Plan

Fish & Wildlife Service 90 day review: Preliminary Review of the Effects of the Expansion of the National Training Center/Fort Irwin on the Desert Tortoise and Lane Mountain Milkvetch. Dated March 28, 2001. Released 4/16/01

What may be lost – Desert Tortoise and Lane Mountain Milkvetch distributions in the expansion area

Key Elements document – dated January 12, 2001

Fort Irwin Expansion, Final Legislation – signed December 21, 2000

Fort Irwin Expansion, Draft Legislation – released October 27, 2000

October 24, 2000: Action Alert on Fort Irwin Expansion Rider

October 3, 2000: Letter from Congressman Jerry Lewis to all West Mojave Plan participants

21 September 2000: Update on Fort Irwin Expansion Legislation; Interest Groups Urge Feinstein to Oppose Expansion Legislation

27 July 2000: Update on Fort Irwin Expansion Legislation

17 March 2000: Spear/Wright Memo on Fort Irwin Tortoise Report and its Implications

15 March 2000: Reasonableness of Fort Irwin Tortoise Panel Report, William Haigh

15 March 2000: Fort Irwin Tortoise Panel Report

October 1999: Text of the "Feinstein/Lewis compromise on California desert land acquisition (Catellus)"

June 1999: Briefing Points on the proposed expansion

April 1999: Graphics released by the US Department of Defense, 16 April, 1999 outlining the proposed NTC Expansion

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