Welcome
The Readiness and Environmental Protection Initiative (REPI) is a key tool for combating encroachment. Under REPI, the Department of Defense partners with conservation organizations and state and local governments to preserve buffer land and habitat around our military's installations and ranges.
By promoting innovative land conservation solutions that benefit both military readiness and the environment, REPI ensures that our military can conduct effective and realistic training and testing now and into the future. Read more...
2012 Report to Congress
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The 2012 REPI Report to Congress is now available. Through Fiscal Year 2011, REPI has protected more than 215,000 acres for 60 locations in 24 states. To download the 2012 Report to Congress, please click here. |
Webinars
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The next REPI Webinar, on REPI and Greenprinting: A Hawaiian Case Study, will take place on Wednesday, June 27, 2012 at 3:00 PM ET. Please click here for instructions to join the webinar. |
Download more information on upcoming REPI webinars, hosted in partnership with the Land Trust Alliance. Please click here to view the REPI webinar schedule, instructions on how to log on to future webinars, and recordings of past webinars.
Learn more about REPI Projects
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Read more about REPI projects through our fact sheets and our interactive project map. |
REPI in the News
Joint Base McGuire-Dix-Lakehurst, partnering with Ocean County, New Jersey, recently acquired restrictive easements to prevent incompatible uses on about 1,800 acres in the departure zones of two runways located in Jackson Township for about $7.5 million in REPI and partner funds. About 400 acres will be transferred to the County in fee to remain open space, while the other 1,400 acres will be retained by the private landowner for continued compatible industrial activities. Read more about the efforts to protect the Navy, Air Force, and Army missions at the base here.
Announcements
Thank you to all who participated, both online and in person, in our first ever conference seminar broadcast at the LTA Southeast Conference on Wednesday, March 14, 2012. We apologize again for any technical difficulties, particularly with the audio at the start of the session. The full three-hour recording, including the discussion on how to make REPI work better in the future, is now available. Please contact us if you have any follow up questions about the recording.
View a recording of Julian Johnson, a REPI landowner at Fort Bragg, NC, speaking at the Sustaining Military Readiness Conference about protecting his land and supporting the military mission.
The 2012 REPI Challenge is a pilot program in Georgia and Florida aimed at promoting REPI projects at a greater scale with lower cost. Please visit the U.S. Endowment for Forestry and Communities for information on the REPI Challenge.Update: The deadline for REPI Challenge proposals has passed and submissions are currently under review.
