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MEETING MULTIPLE MISSIONS – COORDINATED PLANNING, COLLABORATIVE PARTNERSHIPS |
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Introduction: Bruce Beard, Basing Directorate, Office of the Deputy Under Secretary of Defense, Installations and Environment
(0800 – 1000)
Reflections on REPI – Five Years Old and Growing
Chairperson: Nancy Natoli, Program Analyst, Office of the Deputy Under Secretary of Defense, Installations and Environment
Presentations:
REPI in Oklahoma
Robert Gregory, President and Executive Director, Land Legacy
Merrimac Farm: An Innovative Partnership with MarineCorps Base Quantico
Kim Hosen, Executive Director, Prince William Conservation Alliance
Santa Rosa County and NAS Whiting Field, Partners for REPI
Don Salter, Chairman, Santa Rose County Board of Commissioners, Florida
(1030 – 1200)
Coordinated Planning – Innovative Ideas
Chairperson: Jan Larkin, Range Sustainment Outreach Coordinator, Office of the Deputy Under Secretary of Defense, Installations and Environment
Presentations:
Partnering Across Regions: Successful Engagement of Local Elected Officials, Planners and Their Communities
Fred Abousleman, Executive Director, National Association of Regional Councils
The growing partnership between the Department of Defense and regional planning agencies is imperative in order to educate military personnel, and regional and local leaders about how to effectively engage each other to ensure that local planning and development decisions consider the effects on local military installations and vice-versa. By working together, regional planning organizations and military installations can reduce urban encroachment on military bases, jointly consider environmental, transportation, and other effects of installation on regional growth, and better understand workforce development and training needs, while providing good stewardship of communities and natural resources…A powerful partnership in planning.
Partnering Across Regions: Successful Engagement of Local Elected Officials, Planners and Their Communities
Colonel Howard D. (Dave) Belote, Commander, 99th Air Base Wing, Nellis Air Force Base, Nevada,
The growing partnership between the Department of Defense and regional planning agencies is imperative in order to educate military personnel, and regional and local leaders about how to effectively engage each other to ensure that local planning and development decisions consider the effects on local military installations and vice-versa. By working together, regional planning organizations and military installations can reduce urban encroachment on military bases, jointly consider environmental, transportation, and other effects of installation on regional growth, and better understand workforce development and training needs, while providing good stewardship of communities and natural resources…A powerful partnership in planning.
Success in Creative Partnership for Western Training and Testing Ranges and Installations
Colonel Thomas Finnegan, US Army, Retired, Co-chair, Arizona Governor's Military Affairs Commission, State of Arizona
A “One Voice” approach to address encroachment, environmental, and community issues has proven effective. Successful collaborative efforts include 1)The Western Regional Partnership whose purpose is to establish a regional senior policy level partnership among DoD, other Federal agencies, State, and Tribal leadership in AZ, CA, NV, NM, and UT; 2) the AZ Commanders Summit whose mission is to facilitate military operations in AZ and create a cooperative effort among the commanders of AZ military agencies to ensure the highest level of operations, and 3) the Governor’s Military Affairs Commission who monitors and makes recommendations on executive, legislative and federal actions necessary to sustain and grow AZ’s network of military assets.
Ensuring Continued Military Presence at Air Force Base Overberg
Lieutenant Colonel E.F. (Etienne) van Blerk, Staff Officer Environmental Services, South African Air Force
By identifying potential encroachment pressures during the earliest stages of planning at the Air Force Base Overberg-OTB complex, and by incorporating counteracting strategies in the design and operation of these facilities, adverse effects on mission sustainability have been largely pre-empted. Firm in situ management objectives, measures and mechanisms based on a multi-disciplinary and multi-stakeholder approach have enhanced credibility, legitimacy and mission sustainability of the Complex. The Air Force continues to recognize and incorporate existing as well as emergent encroachment pressures into short and long-term planning efforts.
(1330 – 1500)
Fierce Urgency of Now – Benefits of Regional Partnerships
Chairperson: Roel Lopez, Associate Director of Renewable Natural Resources, Texas A&M Institute
Presentations:
South Carolina’s Indian Creek Wildlife Habitat Restoration Initiative
Judy Barnes, Certified Wildlife Biologist, South Carolina Department of Natural Resources
South Carolina’s Indian Creek Wildlife Habitat Restoration Initiative is a partnership of federal and state agencies, conservation organizations and private landowners joined together to restore and improve habitat for declining species that depend on grasslands and similar habitats. Financial assistance has been provided through Wildlife Habitat Incentives Program (WHIP), National Forest Foundation and US Fish & Wildlife Services Partners for Fish and Wildlife. These funds provide landowners with technical and financial assistance to develop habitat for upland wildlife, threatened and endangered species, fish, and other wildlife in South Carolina.
The Malpai Borderlands Group
Peter Warren, Senior Field Representative, The Nature Conservancy, Arizona Chapter
The Malpai Borderlands Group is organized and led by ranchers who live and work primarily in Southeast Arizona and Southwest New Mexico. It is a collaborative effort that is built around goals shared by neighbors within their community. The Malpai Group works in an 800,000 acre region that extends from the foot of the Chiricahua Mountains in Arizona, east to the Playas Valley in Southwest New Mexico. They have protected 75,000 acres of private land through conservation easements, which will protect it as natural wildlife habitat and productive ranch land by preventing subdivision and development.
America’s Longleaf
Lark Hayes, Senior Attorney, Southern Environmental Law Center
America's Longleaf Initiative is a collaborative effort involving more than 20 federal and state agencies and nonprofit organizations that seeks to define, catalyze and support coordinated longleaf pine conservation efforts across nine Southern states. Longleaf was once the dominant forest type of the coastal plains of the South Atlantic and the eastern Gulf of Mexico, comprising some 90 million acres. Only some 3.4 million acres remain, contributing to the decline of numerous at-risk species. According to the first ever Range-wide Conservation Plan for Longleaf Pine (released this year), the vision of America’s Longleaf is to have functional, viable longleaf pine ecosystems with the full spectrum of ecological, economic and social value.
(1530 – 1700)
Linking Lands, Linking Missions – Meeting Mission Requirements through Landscape Scale Collaboration
Chairperson: Bruce Beard, Basing Directorate, Office of the Deputy Under Secretary of Defense, Installations and Environment
Presentations:
Freedom to Roam
Kevin Sweeney, Freedom to Roam
Freedom to Roam is a coalition of corporations, governments, conservation and environmental organizations, and recreation groups committed to finding and inspiring solutions to the threats human encroachment and global warming present to the survival of America's wildlife. Freedom to Roam educates people and governments about the critical need to protect ancient migration corridors that animals need to survive and by establish protected migration corridors that connect crucial habitats. Our goal is to ensure that animals and people have the Freedom to Roam.
Journey Through Hallowed Ground
Cate Magennis Wyatt, President, Journey Through Hallowed Ground
The Journey Through Hallowed Ground Partnership is a non-profit organization dedicated to raising national awareness of the unparalleled history in the region, which generally follows the Old Carolina Road (Rt. 15/231) from Gettysburg, through Maryland, to Monticello in Albemarle County, VA. From its communities, farms, businesses and heritage sites, we have an opportunity to celebrate and preserve this vital fabric of America which stands today in the historic, scenic and natural beauty of this region.
Colorado Shortgrass Prairie Initiative
Betsy Neely, The Nature Conservancy
Earlier this year, The Nature Conservancy and the Colorado Department of Transportation (CDOT) completed the first of three voluntary land preservation agreements designed to protect tens of thousands of acres of Colorado’s shortgrass prairie. The agreement is part of the Shortgrass Prairie Initiative, a joint effort to offset habitat loss caused by future transportation improvements while safeguarding large blocks of shortgrass prairie, home to a number of imperiled species.
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