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President Biden can you please make Castner Range a monument: Guest column
Richard Teschner, Eric Pearson and Ángel Peña Guest column El Pasoans appreciate President Joe Biden’s Jan. 8 visit to our city, here to witness the border firsthand and discuss immigration. We hope that during that important visit, he caught a glimpse of Castner Range and felt inspired to heed our decades-long campaign asking that he use the 1906 Antiquities Act to make Castner Range a national monument, conserving it forever.
Teschner: Agencies commit to El Paso
Thanks to the Department of Defense and the Department of Interior for signing a letter of joint commitment to the community of El Paso. This letter goes a long way towards advancing the process to conserve El Paso’s Castner Range in perpetuity. Since November of 2015, we’ve been putting forth a very full-court press, working to show the nation – especially the departments of Defense and Interior as well as former President Obama – the value of the Castner Range and why it should be conserved.
Monument status best for Castner Range
Castner Range can become a national monument without undergoing the clearance changes that would alter the landscape and cost many millions. Castner — even now a part of Fort Bliss — was an active Army artillery range from 1926-1966, and though the Range was closed in ’66 it still contains a lot of the ordnance and explosives shot there by soldiers. In years gone by, two assumptions were made. The first was that all ordnance could be removed from Castner Range and that this would be good.
Teschner: Castner Range a liquid asset for El Paso
This past January the Public Service Board unanimously passed “A Resolution Expressing Support for the Creation of the Castner Range National Monument.” The resolution states several well-known reasons why the 7,081-acre Castner Range (Fort Bliss’s famous Northeast artillery range, active from 1926-1966 and closed since then) should be conserved as a monument — Castner provides a natural habitat for unique local wildlife, the views both of and from the range are among the best in the West, a...
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