Fort Ord

History

The former Fort Ord, located just north of Monterey Bay in Monterey County, began as Gigling Reservation, an artillery-training field for the Army in 1917. By the beginning of World War II, it had expanded by 2,000 acres and was renamed from Camp Ord to Fort Ord. The fort served as the Army’s primary facility for basic training and staging for the next thirty years. In 1988, Congress passed the Base Realignment and Closure (BRAC) legislation, and by 1994 the largest U.S. military base at the time was officially closed, transferring ~ 28,000 acres (~ 45 square miles) to a conglomeration of government entities and local organizations, including the cities of Seaside, Del Rey Oak, Marina, Monterey County, University of California Santa Cruz (UCSC), California State University Monterey Bay (CSUMB), the U.S. Army and the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) (FORA 2012).

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Land Use Management

• Fort Ord Reuse Authority (FORA)
• Base Realignment and Closure (BRAC)

CSUMB Courses relevant to Fort Ord

• BIO 340/L Ecology
  • Chaparral field trip
• S:ENVS 436/536/L Remote Sensing and Image Processing
  • Remotely sensed map of Fort Ord land cover

CSUMB people working on Fort Ord

• Suzy Worcecster
• Fred Watson
• Bart Kowalski
• Aimee Teaby
• See also: Fort Ord Workgroup

Links

• EcoViz:SEP Focus Sites