Increased military flight trainings would have dire environmental and public health effects in Arizona and New Mexico.
Aircraft are seen being stored at the Aerospace Maintenance and Regeneration Group on Davis-Monthan Air Force Base on May 12, 2015, in Tucson, Arizona.Aircraft are seen being stored at the Aerospace Maintenance and Regeneration Group on Davis-Monthan Air Force Base on May 12, 2015, in Tucson, Arizona.The area from Cochise County, Arizona, to Hidalgo County, New Mexico, is largely remote and highly biodiverse.
“The further expansion of information that we’ve developed over time on the website has really been … sort of a public place to go,” Vacariu toldThe coalition’s demands are fairly modest. They aren’t opposed to military combat flight training, but simply want it and other intense forms of flight training to be confined to Barry M. Goldwater Range, a military bombing range consisting of 1.9 million acres in the Sonoran Desert.
While the DEIS claims that there are “no new or unique flight safety issues or additional risk in any of the MOAs involved,”in the 1960s and 1970s by the Air Force, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service and the National Ecology Research Center found that “effects of aircraft noise and sonic booms on wildlife include such nonauditory effects as stress, behavioral changes, interference with mating, and detrimental changes in the ability to obtain sufficient food, water, and cover.
“Suddenly, once we started passing out this information about how people can complain … they have been bombarded with public complaints about noise,” Vacariu said. “There have essentially been zero responses.”
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