Navy and Marines Compromise with Environmental Groups
The military has plans to put a practice carrier landing field in the middle of prime waterfowl habitat. Much of this is land is already National Wildlife Refuges and the wintering grounds to many species of waterfowl. By settling this particular lawsuit it will prevent some of the low level flights over Lake Mattamuskeet but it does not change the military’s long term plan to set up the OLF.
Canfield said the settlement doesn’t mean his group will stop fighting the Navy’s proposed practice jet landing field in Washington and Beaufort counties.
The military wanted to allow flights inside a 900 square mile area that included wildlife refuges at Lake Mattamuskeet in Hyde County and on Core Banks, a barrier island off Carteret County.
Under the compromise, the military won’t pursue establishing a new flight operations area over Lake Mattamuskeet and environmental groups will drop their opposition to changing flying practices over Core Banks.
Canfield said allowing jets to fly lower over Core Banks and at higher speeds than now approved may disturb some shore birds, but said the compromise will spare Lake Mattamuskeet “a huge impact.”
Besides the waterfowl these flights would impact in an earlier post we noted the impact on the reintroduction of the Red Wolf.
Cool story brotha. Wish you could have got one, after all the head ache. T.
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