Article: Navy Withdraws Plan for Jet Runway Near Wildlife Refuge
CHAPEL HILL, North Carolina, January 28, 2008 (ENS) – Lacking political, environmental or local support, the U.S. Navy has announced it is abandoning plans to build an outlying landing field to train jet pilots in Washington and Beaufort counties in North Carolina adjacent to the Pocosin Lakes National Wildlife Refuge and its tens of thousands…