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Fish and Wildlife Service Honors Fort Carson's Environmental Efforts

Posted on: Tuesday, 22 March 2005, 03:00 CST

Fort Carson has been recognized by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service for outstanding environmental conservation efforts.

The Army post this week received the wildlife agency's first Military Installation Conservation Partnership Award. The award recognizes the base's efforts on several environmental and conservation fronts.

Among the bases's programs recognized by the agency were:

Working with government agencies, universities and nonprofit groups to provide management of many declining native species found on the post, including the Mexican spotted owl, mountain plover, swift fox, peregrine falcon, greenback cutthroat trout and Arkansas darter.

Working cooperatively with The Nature Conservancy, state and federal agencies and private landowners to develop a comprehensive conservation plan addressing land use and native species.

Promoting the use of renewable energy, reducing water use, increasing the use of public transportation, reducing air pollution and cutting waste disposal to zero.

Fort Carson's environmental compliance office is responsible for managing more than 340,000 acres of what biologists call a shortgrass prairie ecosystem.

Source: Gazette, The; Colorado Springs, Colo.

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