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North Carolina Sentinel Landscapes Partnership

Established 2011

Sentinel Landscapes

Develop compatible land use partnerships to reduce encroachment pressures and incompatible land uses that threaten the military’s mission by protecting working lands and critical natural resources

Mission Foot Print

90+% private ownership

Mission Foot Print

90+% private ownership

North Carolina Sentinel Landscapes Partnership

Established 2011

Sentinel Landscapes: What are they?

• Integrated landscape of farms, ranches,

forests, water resources, natural lands and military installations

• Places where preserving the working and

rural character of key landscapes:

• Strengthens the economies of farms, ranches,

forests and communities

• Conserves habitat and natural resources
• Protects vital test and training missions of

military installations that anchor such landscapes

North Carolina Sentinel Landscapes Partnership

Established 2011

Sentinel Landscapes: What are they?

• Integrated landscape of farms,

ranches, forests, water resources, natural lands and military installations

• Places where preserving the working

and rural character of key landscapes:

• Strengthens the economies of farms,

ranches, forests and communities

• Conserves habitat and natural resources
• Protects vital test and training missions of

military installations that anchor such landscapes

North Carolina Sentinel Landscapes Partnership

Established 2011

The North Carolina Sentinel Landscapes Partnership

• Embodies the US Departments of Agriculture, Defense, and Interior

Sentinel Landscapes philosophy (Est. 2013)

• Landscape-scale conservation and regional partnerships
• Linking working lands, natural resource conservation, and national defense
• Collaboration among 30+ agencies and organizations
• Develops and implements programs with multiple benefits for partners
• Provides a streamlined management and implementation structure

North Carolina Sentinel Landscapes Partnership

Established 2011

The partnership

• Unique compared

to other Sentinel Landscape designations

• Engaged with

broader spectrum

• f partners
• Recognized at

national level Steering Committee

Other Stakeholders

North Carolina Sentinel Landscapes Partnership

Established 2011

Sentinel Landscapes Partnership Objectives

• Implement a coordinated and comprehensive strategy within a

defined landscape (the Sentinel Landscape) to promote compatible land use

• Coordinate the delivery of Federal, State, NGO and Local programs

to willing landowners whose working and natural lands support the military mission within designated Sentinel Landscapes

• Encourage public and private participation to engage and reward

voluntary landowner involvement

North Carolina Sentinel Landscapes Partnership

Established 2011

The Federal and State Sentinel Landscapes:

• Employ financial and non-financial means to address encroachment
• Gain the advantages associated with combined landscape-scale efforts
• Align planning documents and processes among federal programs
• Extend limited resources to address the needs of individual bases and

installations

• Better coordinate delivery of federal programs providing landowner assistance
• Engage and reward landowner participation through recognition and monetary

incentives

• Improve planning and program execution with landowners, NGOs, and

government agencies

North Carolina Sentinel Landscapes Partnership

Established 2011

Benefits to Federal, State, and Local Programs

• Agencies meet their own mission objectives and support their

program beneficiaries while also protecting national security

• Agencies can provide support to a greater number of landowners by

leveraging their programs with support and incentives from others

• Agencies gain leverage to meet their missions from DoD’s dedicated

funding for use on off-base lands

• Landowners may be more willing to participate in compatible land use

practices knowing that their actions serve to protect their neighboring installation, associated training ranges, and its soldiers, sailors, marines, and airmen

North Carolina Sentinel Landscapes Partnership

Established 2011

Benefits to Military Services

• Gives priority consideration for REPI, REPI Challenge and Service

funding

• Focuses partnership funding priorities in areas supporting compatible

land use in defined Sentinel Landscapes

• Supports partner mission objectives while protecting our national

security

• Provides a trusted gateway to engage private landowners in support
• f the military mission
• Increases the flexibility and opportunities for military training through

the promotion of compatible resource uses

North Carolina Sentinel Landscapes Partnership

Established 2011

NC Sentinel Landscapes Partnership Accomplishments

• Created partnership trusted by landowners
• Leveraged funding and opportunities in support of military training
• $16.8M Funds leveraged; 2 to 1 REPI match
• Legislative appropriations of $2M in recurring dollars leveraged and $2M in
• ne time funding
• Priority in cost-share programs for landowners under the military footprint
• Increased use of state lands for military training benefit
• Increased the use of local farm and forest products by military
• Positively influenced DoD policy on Farmers Markets
• $11+ million in North Carolina-based fresh fruit and vegetable purchases
• Duke Energy utilized forest-based resources in energy production

North Carolina Sentinel Landscapes Partnership

Established 2011

• Established new programs and concepts
• Developed an all-Service military mission footprint map
• Establishment of Working Lands Conservation Trust
• Tested and validated innovative conservation concepts to achieve goals at

lower cost

• Term-limited performance-based contracts; Reverse auction bidding
• Streamlined military agreement process; time and cost
• Ensured development of compatible renewable energy infrastructure

NC Sentinel Landscapes Partnership Accomplishments

North Carolina Sentinel Landscapes Partnership

Established 2011

• Coordinated state and local programs to provide benefits to military

training

• Present Use Valuation Tax Deferment Program
• Voluntary Agriculture Districts
• Enhanced Voluntary Agriculture Districts
• County Farmland Protection Plans
• Increased landowner and community awareness of resource dollars
• Creation of landowner outreach programs
• Fostered dialog between landowners and NC military services

NC Sentinel Landscapes Partnership Accomplishments

North Carolina Sentinel Landscapes Partnership

Established 2011

Financial Status (2011-2016)

• Funding
• $3.62 million from MCIEAST
• Leverage partnerships of
• $1.45 million in unrecoverable indirect cost from NC State University
• $2 million OSD funding
• $2.3+ million in USDA Regional Conservation Partnership Program funds
• $3.27 million in ADFP Trust Fund money
• $30+ million of In kind and cash funds from state and NGO partners
• $100+ million/annually in local property tax for voluntary deferred use of

private landownership to keep in compatible uses with military mission

Least amount of military funding to keep land compatible

North Carolina Sentinel Landscapes Partnership

Established 2011

What is needed to keep NC Sentinel Landscape partnership going?

• General operations to sustain minimum Sentinel Landscape Program
• $500K annual total
• Specific Project Task/Initiatives
• Funding level depends on specific projects
• Seeking support
• To keep coalition together
• Ensure all services are included
• To designate priority areas for all services
• To maximize benefits to all services and partners
• To create mutually beneficial projects

North Carolina Sentinel Landscapes Partnership

Established 2011

Sentinel Landscapes Designation

Where shared priorities for conservation and working land preservation converge to protect national defense

North Carolina Sentinel Landscapes Partnership

Established 2011

Expected Sentinel Landscape Designation

• Because of the work the partnership led
• unique compared to the other SL designations
• engaged at a deeper level and it is recognized higher up
• Designation just the beginning of the process
• Formal coordination and support funding
• Process to implement values and benefits of the sentinel landscapes
• Locally driven by installations and their needs
• Sustain and expand partnership
• Future funding
• REPI
• RCPP
• State and local

Sentinel Landscape Designation

North Carolina Sentinel Landscapes Partnership

Established 2011

Way forward

• Determine level of participation and funding
• Agree on funding mechanism
• Determine specific service goals/projects

Program to be briefed at next NC Commanders’ Council on 24 May 16

NC Sentinel Landscapes Participation

North Carolina Sentinel Landscapes Partnership

Established 2011

Questions

• Website: go.ncsu.edu/sentinel_landscapes