The Department of Defense (DOD)’s REPI Program facilitates long-term, collaborative partnerships that improve resilience, preserve important habitats and natural resources, and support sustainable and productive land uses and water resources for their surrounding communities. For the Pacific islands, these partnerships are critical to the Department serving as both a trusted neighbor, and steadfast steward of native cultures and irreplaceable ecosystems.

As the Pacific region grows in strategic significance for national defense, REPI projects become increasingly essential to ensure greater conservation and protection of cultural and natural resources for communities that neighbor DOD facilities. In Fiscal Year 2023, the REPI Program has committed nearly $34 million in funding to support REPI Program projects and REPI Challenge projects across Hawai‘i and Guam. These important projects leverage significant partner contributions and investments from other federal agency conservation and resilience programs. 

Read more about resilience project examples in the REPI Program Pacific Fact Sheet.

The Department of Defense (DOD)’s Readiness and Environmental Protection Integration (REPI) Program facilitates long-term, collaborative partnerships that improve resilience, preserve important habitats and natural resources, and support sustainable and productive land uses and water resources for their surrounding communities. For the Pacific islands, these partnerships are critical to the Department serving as both a trusted neighbor, and steadfast steward of native cultures and irreplaceable ecosystems.

As the Pacific region grows in strategic significance for national defense, REPI projects become increasingly essential to ensure greater conservation and protection of cultural and natural resources for communities that neighbor DOD facilities. In Fiscal Year 2023, the REPI Program has committed nearly $34 million in funding to support REPI Program projects and REPI Challenge projects across Hawai‘i and Guam. These important projects leverage significant partner contributions and investments from other federal agency conservation and resilience programs.  Read more about resilience project examples in the REPI Pacific Fact Sheet.

The REPI Program preserves military missions by limiting or alleviating encroachment threats that could adversely affect Department of Defense (DoD) installations including incompatible development, endangered species restrictions, and habitat loss.  However, climate change and extreme weather events, ranging from severe flooding to catastrophic wildfire, are an increasingly concerning encroachment impact and threaten DoD training lands, infrastructure, and public safety.  To protect installation and range operations from predicted or unanticipated changes in environmental conditions, the REPI program is now able to fund off-base natural infrastructure projects, also known as REPI Resilience Projects, in addition to more traditional REPI projects.

Installations across the country are enhancing climate resiliency by executing prescribed burns to reduce the risk of wildfires, installing stormwater drainage basins to protect groundwater resources, and constructing living shorelines to reduce erosion.  Read more about resilience project examples in the REPI Resilience Fact Sheet.