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AVON PARK AIR FORCE RANGE

SENTINEL LANDSCAPE

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LOCATION

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Avon Park Air Force Range

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MacDill AFB

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Natural Resources

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Landscape Goals and Desired Outcomes

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Vision: A partnership enhancing the landscape, supporting agriculture, critical resources, local economies. Goals:

• Increase acreage in conservation
• Maintain & Enhance Habitat Corridors
• Ensure proper management of Conservation Lands
• Increase participation of willing land owners
• Streamline Conservation Easement Acquisition Process
• Continued coordination with local governments
• Increase awareness among real-estate appraisers of need

for inclusion of ecosystem services

Successes and Challenges

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Vision:

• SL designation: Recognition of what was already happening
• Joint NRCS (RCPP)/REPI Project

Challenges:

• Become more than the sum of the parts
• Do not add bureaucracy
• Capacity
• Streamline Conservation Easement Acquisition
• Sentinel Landscape Easement
• - Appraised value of ecosystem services

Questions?

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Enabling Program Components

• 10 U.S. Code § 2684a - Agreements to limit

encroachments and other constraints on military training, testing, and operations

• (h)INTERAGENCY COOPERATION IN

CONSERVATION PROGRAMS TO AVOID OR REDUCE ADVERSE IMPACTS ON MILITARY READINESS ACTIVITIES.—In order to facilitate interagency cooperation and enhance the effectiveness of actions that will protect both the environment and military readiness, the recipient of funds provided pursuant an agreement under this section or under the Sikes Act (16 U.S.C. 670 et seq.) may, with regard to the lands and waters within the scope of the agreement, use such funds to satisfy any matching funds or cost- sharing requirement of any conservation program of the Department of Agriculture

• r the Department of the Interior

notwithstanding any limitation of such program on the source of matching or cost-sharing funds.

NRCS - RCPP

• 16 U.S. Code Subchapter VIII - REGIONAL

CONSERVATION PARTNERSHIP PROGRAM

• An eligible partner shall provide a

significant portion of the overall costs

• f the scope of the project, which will

be reflected in the Partnership

• Agreement. The overall cost includes

all direct and indirect costs associated with implementation, from NRCS and partner(s). Partners may include funds they have received from

• ther Federal sources as part of

their contribution to the project, provided they submit a written commitment from the Federal agency confirming such funds can be used in conjunction with NRCS funds.

DOD - REPI