in schneverdingen a citizen's initiative was begun in 1986 to reduce the military impact in the lüneburg heath. they gathered 13,000 signatures demanding the end of the soltau-lüneburg agreement. its members organised many protests. in 1988 they collected around 100 oil drums from the red areas and protested to the lower saxon parliament in hanover. in 1990 they obstructed the railway ramp at reinsehlen camp to prevent the off-loading of tanks. in 1991, the blockade of an underpass near the camp was set up to prevent tanks entering the heath. in another citizen's initiative was started in amelinghausen in 1988 to reduce military exercises. in 1992, both movements, together with other environmental organisations, demanded that the minister president of lower saxony, gerhard schröder, put an end to the exercises and the agreement.