Thank you Julie for this update.
The military training base is going to expropriate more land than they presently occupy:
expropriating 413,400 acres, while existing base is 238,000 acres. This training base in Colorado has been talking of expansion for 18 months or more... Ranchers have been in limbo because they didn't know who would be removed, shut-down...
The new map details areas of expropriation in more detail. Most of the land is to the South (down-wind of prevailing winds) with some land to the north. I guess the military had to finish their soil sampling before they knew which ranches needed to be shut down, depopulated....
I hope that these residence will take their own soil samples and keep them for doing their own testing.
I wouldn't be surprised to hear that substantial amounts of depleted uranium has drifted onto these regional grasslands. The military will need to depopulate the people, cattle and other wild-life before more TSEs start to be noticed.
After all, Colorado and New Mexico are the birthplace(s) of CWD.
I hope that people who may know some of these ranchers will give them my message. I am serious!