They want to mimic desert conditions. ???? The prairie where the Sage Grouse is being threatened is not a desert.
Congress needs to stop finding political popularity in killing little animals.
This is nonsense. Conservationists are valid people that can help resolve these problems.
A few years back the US Navy wanted to put a practice airstrip in North Carolina. The military already chokes North Carolina thanks to Jesse Helms. The Sierra Club has been around a long time and has facilitated insight to bring about a resolve to where the natural world intersects with the US military.
The Navy airstrip was right in the middle of a bird flyway. If the Navy built an airstrip there, they would have most if not all jets practicing there on the ground.
A bird flyway has migrating animals that are frequently protected by an international treaty. When the Navy finally stopped being silly and realized there would always be birds moving through the area, they changed their mind. These were not small birds. International treaties are important.
There are many deserts in the USA and already have conditions for the military to practice. I strongly suggest they seek REAL life conditions and not simply make a desert out of a prairie.
Honestly.
Edwards Air Force base in California can easily accommodate real life desert conditions in it's lake bed. That is only one facility that already exists.
This hostile tone by Congress is absolute nonsense and is a 'political tone.'
U.S. Air Force Test Pilot School, Barstow Daggett Airport, Bicycle Lake Army Airfield, Blythe Airport, Edwards Air Force Base, Fort Irwin National Training Center, Marine Corps Air Ground Combat Center Twenty nine Palms, Navel Air Weapons Station China Lake, Needles Airport, Rice Army Airfeld, Skunk Works and Twenty nine Plams Strategic Expeditionary Landing Field, United States Air Force Plant 42 and W.R. Byron Airport.
You know where all these facilities are located?
The Mojave Desert.
Questions?
Every branch of the service, except the Coast Guard, has a facility that already exists in desert conditions. Wait. Let me guess. Training requires a place of millions of troops with extended training times of a year or more.
Hello?
Congress needs to stop finding political popularity in killing little animals.
This is nonsense. Conservationists are valid people that can help resolve these problems.
A few years back the US Navy wanted to put a practice airstrip in North Carolina. The military already chokes North Carolina thanks to Jesse Helms. The Sierra Club has been around a long time and has facilitated insight to bring about a resolve to where the natural world intersects with the US military.
The Navy airstrip was right in the middle of a bird flyway. If the Navy built an airstrip there, they would have most if not all jets practicing there on the ground.
A bird flyway has migrating animals that are frequently protected by an international treaty. When the Navy finally stopped being silly and realized there would always be birds moving through the area, they changed their mind. These were not small birds. International treaties are important.
There are many deserts in the USA and already have conditions for the military to practice. I strongly suggest they seek REAL life conditions and not simply make a desert out of a prairie.
Honestly.
Edwards Air Force base in California can easily accommodate real life desert conditions in it's lake bed. That is only one facility that already exists.
This hostile tone by Congress is absolute nonsense and is a 'political tone.'
U.S. Air Force Test Pilot School, Barstow Daggett Airport, Bicycle Lake Army Airfield, Blythe Airport, Edwards Air Force Base, Fort Irwin National Training Center, Marine Corps Air Ground Combat Center Twenty nine Palms, Navel Air Weapons Station China Lake, Needles Airport, Rice Army Airfeld, Skunk Works and Twenty nine Plams Strategic Expeditionary Landing Field, United States Air Force Plant 42 and W.R. Byron Airport.
You know where all these facilities are located?
The Mojave Desert.
Questions?
Every branch of the service, except the Coast Guard, has a facility that already exists in desert conditions. Wait. Let me guess. Training requires a place of millions of troops with extended training times of a year or more.
Hello?
