Army Closes Makua Training Ranges, Cutting Oahu Leases by 19,500 Acres
The U.S. Army announced on November 6 at Fort Shafter in Honolulu, Hawaii, that it is closing the training ranges at the Makua Military Reservation on Oahu's west side and asking the State of Hawaii to begin the lease-termination process for three state-owned land parcels, cutting the Army's leased land on Oahu by 19,500 acres in total.
U.S. Army Pacific said the range closure took effect October 1 and that the reduction includes 5,900 acres of state-owned land as part of the Army's land-retention process. The Army has written to the Hawaii Department of Land and Natural Resources to begin terminating the leases for Poamoho (4,390 acres), the Makua Military Reservation (782 acres) and the Kahuku Training Area (700 acres).
The Army said airspace over Makua will remain in use and that cultural access, wildfire response and security work will not be affected. Live-fire training in Makua Valley ended in 2004; the Army pledged in 2023 to ban live fire there permanently and in 2025 to seek no further interest in the 782 state-owned acres at Makua. The November 6 announcement puts those pledges into effect, with the state land department to handle the terminations, though no timetable was given.
(Source: U.S. Army Pacific)
Source: U.S. Army Pacific
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Photo: 图：夏威夷马库阿一带山地（资料图）。Wikimedia Commons。 / Photo: Mountains near Mākua, Hawaii (file photo). Wikimedia Commons.
