Consider the Rocky Mountain Arsenal - a Cold War nerve gas factory - just in the NE burbs of Denver. Now it's a nature preserve.
Also Rocky Flats. Once the US plutonium widget factory, it closed ~1990 and now has some of the better preserved prairie in the Colorado front range. Without the "bomb factory" that whole space between Broomfield and Boulder would now be a subdivision like everywhere else in the area.
In both cases, safety and security requirements provided for a pretty huge untouched buffer space around a small core of industrial-scale work on WMD stuff.
It's not about the military having been there @Jan Weisberger; It's about what the military was doing there. I don't think the military was live-firing/testing munitions in the vicinity of the Golden Gate National Recreation Area.
Consider the Rocky Mountain Arsenal - a Cold War nerve gas factory - just in the NE burbs of Denver. Now it's a nature preserve.
Also Rocky Flats. Once the US plutonium widget factory, it closed ~1990 and now has some of the better preserved prairie in the Colorado front range. Without the "bomb factory" that whole space between Broomfield and Boulder would now be a subdivision like everywhere else in the area.
In both cases, safety and security requirements provided for a pretty huge untouched buffer space around a small core of industrial-scale work on WMD stuff.
San Francisco's golden gate national recreation area was largely bases and buffer space around bases.
It's not about the military having been there @Jan Weisberger; It's about what the military was doing there. I don't think the military was live-firing/testing munitions in the vicinity of the Golden Gate National Recreation Area.