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 North Carolina Sentinel Landscapes Partnership Established 2011
Mission Foot Print 90+% private ownership
Mission Foot Print 90+% private ownership
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
Other The partnership Stakeholders Steering Committee • Unique compared to other Sentinel Landscape designations • Engaged with broader spectrum of partners • Recognized at national level 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 of 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 one 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
NC Sentinel Landscapes Partnership Accomplishments • 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 North Carolina Sentinel Landscapes Partnership Established 2011
NC Sentinel Landscapes Partnership Accomplishments • 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 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 Sentinel Landscape • State and local Designation North Carolina Sentinel Landscapes Partnership Established 2011
NC Sentinel Way forward Landscapes • Determine level of participation and funding • Agree on funding mechanism • Determine specific service goals/projects Participation Program to be briefed at next NC Commanders’ Council on 24 May 16 North Carolina Sentinel Landscapes Partnership Established 2011
Questions • Website: go.ncsu.edu/sentinel_landscapes North Carolina Sentinel Landscapes Partnership Established 2011
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