Summary
Goldberg questions how a large swath of land used as a naval bombing range for 50 years could qualify as federal wilderness area. Yet in Apr 2003, when the Navy ceased its operations on the tiny Puerto Rican island of Vieques, the Department of Defense turned over the territorial jurisdiction of lands it formerly used as ammo dumps, training facilities, and bombing ranges to the Department of Interior. The Interior Department, in accord with an act of Congress, then "administered" about 900 acres of the eastern portion of the island as a designated wilderness area. He offers a discussion on how the contaminants in the area will affect the nearby town.
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Primeval Minefield
FOR A FEDERAL STATUTE, the Wilderness Act of 1964 contains some unusually poetic language. As if channeling Henry David Thor...
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