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Breezy Hill Artillery Range.
Located at another location north west of the camp across 165 GPS Loc N31.62561° W92.49844° The Breezy Hill Artillery Range was operated under the Range Office, Camp Livingston, Louisiana as an infantry supporting weapons range. It was also used by troops stationed at Camp Beauregard and Esler Field. The military actively used approximately 18,650 acres, with most of the range activity concentrated in 15 areas. The army would bring trainees in for one and two week bivouacs. When the training was completed, the soldiers were sent to replacement depots. The site was used for artillery, mortar, anti-tank rockets, grenade and small arms training. There were mock villages and troop camp areas. The site was also part of the massive Louisiana maneuvers of 1940. When World War II ended, Breezy Hill Artillery Range was declared surplus
and beginning in 1946 the fee acres were turned over to the Federal Farm
Mortgage Corporation (FFMC) and offered for sale to the original owners,
many of whom did repurchase the land. The property not repurchased, was
turned over to the Forest Service. The remaining 33,981 acres on loan from
the Forest Service were returned.
The majority of the former Breezy Hill Artillery Range is completely re-forested and forms a part of the Kisatchie national Forest. The Catahoula National Wildlife Management Area is also part of the site area. The majority of the human exposure element consists of Forest rangers and hunters. Two of the areas, areas 3 and 5, are marked with warning signs that these are no activity areas due to unexploded ordnance. Three areas are marked as extreme caution areas, no intrusive actions may be performed; however, timber cutting is allowed. These areas are numbers three, four and six. Area one, the site of a 1994 discovery of a Mark II grenade, is on private property and not part of the forest or management area. Observation bunkers can be seen in some areas and the feds have this year installed new warning signs about unexploded shells. Some signs say Warning some say keep out. Part of this area will be cleaned up under a gov program.
Estimated cleanup cost $92,439 The new map above shows some areas marked in a red X that are no access. The bunker is in the south most x that makes me wonder what's in the others. If you know anything about this range or areas of buildings or bunkers please contact me. Forestry service map for the range [Alt link1] [Alt link2 in PDF] |
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