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This map shows the existing Piñon Canyon Maneuver Site (blue), phase one of the expansion plan (brown), land of the Comanche National Grassland (green), and Colorado State Wildlife Areas (orange) In 2003, the Army identified a need to expand PCMS by acquiring 6.9 million acres (27,923 km 2 ) of land owned by private citizens and the Comanche ...
On February 14, 2007, the U.S. Army announced it was moving forward with a plan to expand the Piñon Canyon Maneuver Site in southeastern Colorado. [11] If expanded, Piñon Canyon would be the Army's largest single training area in the nation, tripling the size of the current site by adding 418,000 acres (1,690 km 2 ) of private ranch land. [ 12 ]
The Army lands were part of the Piñon Canyon Maneuver Site (PCMS), a 238,000-acre (96,000 ha) facility devoted to military exercises. However, In 2007, the Army announced a plan to expand the PCMS by purchasing additional land and seeking to transfer the lands of the Comanche National Grassland to Army ownership. [ 12 ]
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The Pinon Canyon Maneuver Site and surrounding area. After purchasing land to create the PCMS in the early 1980s, the U.S. Army hired archaeologists to document the material history of the area. From 1983 onward, archaeologists and architectural historians repeatedly surveyed the PCMS. [4]
The highway passes just northeast of the Piñon Canyon Maneuver Site, then crosses Comanche National Grassland before a junction with SH 71 going north. [2] At La Junta , the highway turns east on 5th Street, then north on Barnes Avenue before ending at a junction with US 50 .
Map all coordinates using OpenStreetMap. ... Piñon Canyon Maneuver Site; El Pueblo (Colorado) Pueblo, Colorado ... By using this site, ...
A later phase of the Pinon Hills Boulevard extension project south of East Main Street will see the new roadway reach the intersection of County Road 3900 and County Road 390/Wildflower Parkway on ...