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The Department of Defense (DOD) is committed to landscape-level collaboration and regional partnerships to further enhance our ability to manage encroachment. Partnering with other Federal agencies to further the goals of landscape-scale partnerships that help advance the groundwork laid by REPI projects and other efforts. Such partnerships among DOD and other Federal, state, and local agencies help reduce duplicative efforts and lead to more efficient allocation of resources and more effective application of solutions to reduce and prevent encroachment. DOD is a partner in two multi-state, multi-agency partnerships in rapidly growing areas of the United States with significant DOD land presence: the Southeast and Southwest.
The Sentinel Landscapes Partnership is a coalition of Federal agencies, state and local governments, and non-governmental organizations that work with willing landowners and land managers to advance sustainable land use practices around military installations and ranges. Founded in 2013, the partnership aligns the objectives of the U.S. Department of Agriculture, Department of Defense, Department of the Interior, and Federal Emergency Management Agency to strengthen military readiness, conserve natural resources, bolster agricultural and forestry economies, increase public access to outdoor recreation, and enhance installation resilience.
The Southeast Regional Partnership for Planning and Sustainability (SERPPAS) brings together state environmental and natural resource officials from North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia, Alabama, Florida, and Mississippi with federal agencies including DOD. SERPPAS works to encourage compatible resource-use decisions and improve coordination by leveraging its members’ problem-solving and compatible land use efforts to the benefit of regional planning, conservation, economic development, and sustainability.
The Western Regional Partnership (WRP) brings together DOD, Federal, and tribal entities with state agencies from Arizona, California, Colorado, Nevada, New Mexico, and Utah to advance shared strategic planning, land management, and policy goals. WRP committees focus on some of the Western region’s key and emerging issues, including sustainable land use, wildlife corridors, compatible energy development, and border management.
These issues present numerous challenges for DOD installations. For instance, restricted training airspace in the Mojave Desert in California faces potential impacts to readiness from growing development and possible energy transmission corridors that could affect supersonic flights from Naval Air Weapons Station China Lake and Edwards Air Force Base. Working in a regional partnership will help study and address these land use issues in a manner beneficial to all stakeholders, including other Federal landholders.