Ben Avery Shooting Range in peril. Possible sale.
Firearms Action Committee - Tucson
P.O. Box 27321
Tucson, Arizona 85726
http://www.azfact.org
August 5, 2002
>From the desk of Ken Rineer, President
IMMEDIATE ACTION REQUESTED:
The sale of Ben Avery to Del Webb
The Arizona Game & Fish Department is considering an offer from Del Webb to
sell off the Ben Avery Range at $100K per acre, or at least portions of it.
To avoid massive crowds of Phoenix-area shooters spoiling their plans, Game
& Fish has scheduled the meeting in Flagstaff.
The meeting will be held at the Woodlands Radisson Hotel, 1175 West Route
66, Flagstaff, AZ at 9am on Friday August 9th.
There's a large agenda and they may want to go into executive session when
they discuss the economic development of Ben Avery Range. (Which in my view
would be a violation of the Open Meeting Law)
What do you need to do?
Be there yourself if you can or at the very least, contact every shooter &
hunter you know in the Flagstaff area so they can go and show up in mass.
Contact for the Arizona Department of Game and Fish is as follows:
GAME AND FISH, DEPT. OF
2221 W. Greenway Road
Phoenix, Arizona 85023-4399
Information ....................................................(602)
942-3000
FAX Number (Director's Office) ..................(602) 789-3299
Duane L. Shroufe, Director............................(602) 789-3278
Steve Ferrell, Agency Ombudsman ...............(602) 789-3276
Region I
2878 E. White Mountain Blvd.
Pinetop, Arizona 85935 ................................(928) 367-4281
Region II
3500 S. Lake Mary Rd.
Flagstaff, Arizona 86001-9342.....................(928) 774-5045
Region III
5325 N. Stockton Hill Rd.
Kingman, Arizona 86401-5499 ....................(928) 692-7700
Region IV
9140 E. County 10 1/2 St.
Yuma, Arizona 85365-3596 .........................(928) 342-0091
Region V
555 N. Greasewood
Tucson, Arizona 85745-3612 .......................(520) 628-5376
Region VI
7200 E. University
Mesa, Arizona 85207-6502 ..........................(480) 981-9400
Human Resources Office ...............................(602) 789-3326
Rules Office...................................................(602) 789-3289
"A sword is never a killer, it's a tool in the killer's hands"
Lucius Annaeus Seneca "the younger" ca. (4 BC - 65 AD)
P.O. Box 27321
Tucson, Arizona 85726
http://www.azfact.org
August 5, 2002
>From the desk of Ken Rineer, President
IMMEDIATE ACTION REQUESTED:
The sale of Ben Avery to Del Webb
The Arizona Game & Fish Department is considering an offer from Del Webb to
sell off the Ben Avery Range at $100K per acre, or at least portions of it.
To avoid massive crowds of Phoenix-area shooters spoiling their plans, Game
& Fish has scheduled the meeting in Flagstaff.
The meeting will be held at the Woodlands Radisson Hotel, 1175 West Route
66, Flagstaff, AZ at 9am on Friday August 9th.
There's a large agenda and they may want to go into executive session when
they discuss the economic development of Ben Avery Range. (Which in my view
would be a violation of the Open Meeting Law)
What do you need to do?
Be there yourself if you can or at the very least, contact every shooter &
hunter you know in the Flagstaff area so they can go and show up in mass.
Contact for the Arizona Department of Game and Fish is as follows:
GAME AND FISH, DEPT. OF
2221 W. Greenway Road
Phoenix, Arizona 85023-4399
Information ....................................................(602)
942-3000
FAX Number (Director's Office) ..................(602) 789-3299
Duane L. Shroufe, Director............................(602) 789-3278
Steve Ferrell, Agency Ombudsman ...............(602) 789-3276
Region I
2878 E. White Mountain Blvd.
Pinetop, Arizona 85935 ................................(928) 367-4281
Region II
3500 S. Lake Mary Rd.
Flagstaff, Arizona 86001-9342.....................(928) 774-5045
Region III
5325 N. Stockton Hill Rd.
Kingman, Arizona 86401-5499 ....................(928) 692-7700
Region IV
9140 E. County 10 1/2 St.
Yuma, Arizona 85365-3596 .........................(928) 342-0091
Region V
555 N. Greasewood
Tucson, Arizona 85745-3612 .......................(520) 628-5376
Region VI
7200 E. University
Mesa, Arizona 85207-6502 ..........................(480) 981-9400
Human Resources Office ...............................(602) 789-3326
Rules Office...................................................(602) 789-3289
"A sword is never a killer, it's a tool in the killer's hands"
Lucius Annaeus Seneca "the younger" ca. (4 BC - 65 AD)
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8/9/02 10:30 PM and I'm just reading your post, first I don't get drawn, and now this, keep us posted. 0 -
> PRESS RELEASE
> Media Contacts: Rory Aikens, (602) 789-3214, raikens@gf.state.az.us, or
> Joe Janisch, (602) 789-3215.
>
> Ben Avery Rumors Are Flying:
> The Truth Is. . .
> Rumors are flying around about the Ben Avery Shooting Range on the
> northern edge of Phoenix.
> "I can put the rumors to rest. No, we have no offers and we are not
> considering selling the Ben Avery Shooting Facility. Period," said Arizona
> Game and Fish Director Duane Shroufe.
> Shroufe explained that the Game and Fish Commission is at the
> embryonic stage of exploring ways to enhance Ben Avery, possibly through a
> commercial buffer zone along the Carefree Highway Corridor, to protect the
> shooting range from future development on nearby lands.
> "We can't operate in a vacuum. Right now, we don't know what the
> possibilities might be for that corridor. However, we would like to
> collect sufficient information from a variety of sources so we can
> eventually make a decision that is correct today, yet ensures that future
> generations also have a quality shooting facility," said Commissioner Hays
> Gilstrap of Phoenix.
> The commission is considering issuing a request for proposal (ROP)
> for 130 acres along that Carefree Highway corridor, with the strict caveat
> that any proposal "must be compatible" with the shooting range. The draft
> ROP states that, "Ideally, proposals should utilize the economic
> development as a sound buffer for the shooting range."
> The request for proposal is being considered during the Game and
> Fish Commission's meeting Friday at the Radisson Woodlands Hotel, 1175 W.
> Route 66, Flagstaff, during the statewide shooting range update. The
> meeting starts at 9 a.m., and the "Statewide Shooting Range Update" is not
> time certain on the lengthy agenda.
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Reply from AZ Game & Fish in Arizona Republic. They say that it is a rumor. They have had no intention of selling Ben Avery or adjacent land. But the article also said that were looking at 10 years from now when the land should be at 100k an acre. I do not believe them.
But I posted the article on many gun forums as I could as well as advertisers. I also e-mailed the news media but with a different title. "Possible greedy AZ gov. officials."
I think they had planned it but when the information leaked out and they changed their story.
"A sword is never a killer, it's a tool in the killer's hands"
Lucius Annaeus Seneca "the younger" ca. (4 BC - 65 AD)0
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