Army's Pinon plan still under fire

Opposition is still running strong, according to the Pueblo Chieftan:

There is a new president in the White House and a new Congress in office, but the Las Animas County commissioners want them to know that some things don't change - especially the county's opposition to the Army expanding the Pinon Canyon Maneuver Site northeast of Trinidad. "We're asking Congress to bar the Army from considering any further expansion of Pinon Canyon, period," Commissioner Gary Hill said Monday. "We've lived with this hanging over our heads for the past four years and that's enough." The three-member board of commissioners is meeting at 10:30 a.m. today to consider the new resolution of opposition, which contains tougher wording than previous resolutions. In this case, the commissioners are asking Colorado's federal lawmakers to shut the federal wallet and prevent any further expansion of the 238,000-acre training area, whether the Army can find a willing land seller or not.