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Issues of concern to people who live in the west: property rights, water rights, endangered species, livestock grazing, energy production, wilderness and western agriculture. Plus a few items on western history, western literature and the sport of rodeo... Frank DuBois served as the NM Secretary of Agriculture from 1988 to 2003. DuBois is a former legislative assistant to a U.S. Senator, a Deputy Assistant Secretary of Interior, and is the founder of the DuBois Rodeo Scholarship.

Tuesday, February 02, 2010

U.S. Navy Sued Over Anti-Sub Training Range Where Rare Whales Calve

ver its decision to build an Undersea Warfare Training Range next to the only known calving ground for the critically endangered North Atlantic right whale. Only about 350 whales of this species remain today. The range is set for a location 50 nautical miles offshore of Jacksonville, on Florida's northeast coast. The Navy plans to place undersea cables and sensor nodes in a 500 square-nautical-mile area of the ocean to create the range for anti-submarine warfare training. The range would begin operating in 2014. The Navy plans to conduct 470 annual exercises on the training range with up to three vessels and two aircraft deploying exercise torpedoes, parachutes and sonobuoys, and sonar and other noise pollution...read more

2 comments:

Anonymous said...: Once again our preparedness suffers because of enviro activism. Our sailors, marines, soldiers, and airmen are systematically being locked out of places to train. I know I keep harping on this, but at some point it effects readiness. We are finally giving the troops the equipment they need to prevail. But without a place to train...; 10:04 AM
Frank DuBois said...: On this one we agree.; 11:26 PM