Weapons Vs. Wildlife: An Uneasy Truce
The Rocky Mountain Arsenal, 27-square-mile chemical weapons complex scarred with pollution becomes the nation's newest wildlife refugde.
"[The] Rocky Mountain Arsenal, a 27-square-mile chemical weapons complex [in Colorado] became notorious for the deep scars of pollution that were left on the land...Environmentalists like to say that nature bats last. But the continuing story of the arsenal suggests another way. Here the realms of human and wild appear to have fought to a draw, or at least a kind of uneasy détente."
Thanks to Abhijeet Chavan
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Published on Monday, April 19, 2004 in
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