Though the Huron County Board of Commissioners were unable to pass their resolution opposing the Camp Grayling expansion during Tuesday’s meeting, due to three of the board’s seven commissioners being absent at the March 28 meeting, their Sanilac County counterparts will be making a similar resolution at next week’s meeting.
The board is slated to hear a presentation at the Tuesday, April 4 meeting on the expansion a bit before they consider the resolution. Borrowing language from neighboring Tuscola County’s resolution made earlier this month, the resolution cites contamination by the military training facility and noise pollution as reasons for opposing the camp’s requested 20-year lease of additional lands.
The Camp Grayling Joint Maneuver Training Center, including 148,000 acres in and around Grayling, is the largest National Guard training facility in the United States. Michigan military leaders last winter proposed a lease of up to an additional 162,000 acres of state forest land around the existing camp to conduct training activities such as drone operation, cyber and electronic warfare and operation of space and communication systems.
In addition to this resolution, the Sanilac County Board of Commissioners are also set on Tuesday to hear a presentation on the 2022 annual drain report, as well as interview and decide members for the county’s parks and recreation board.
