Fort Ord – Military Base or Wildlife Refuge?

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Claire Greene reports from central California on the closing of an unlikely refuge for rare and endangered species  ? Fort Ord Military Base. Set aside at the turn of the century for combat training, a large part of Fort Ord’s sixteen thousand acres has become a time capsule of unspoiled land, harboring plants and animals that have disappeared from neighboring areas under pressure from development.

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