Army says upgrading Fort Irwin, keeping post-9/11 land claim is worth environmental harm
Victorville Daily Press
The Army plans to bolster its simulated war zone in the Mojave Desert and ask Congress to extend its nearly two-decade hold on roughly 110,000 acres of surrounding public land, saying some environmental harm will result as it prepares “to fight adversaries who are our military peers or near-peers.”
In a draft report dated May 21 by Fort Irwin and Dallas-based Jacobs Engineering Group Inc. the military base’s “environmental consultant,” according to the draft appendices two plans are proposed with major implications for the Army’s 753,537-acre National Training Center.