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Sentinel Landscapes Partnership�“Virginia Security Corridors”�Tidewater & Potomac

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Sentinel Landscape

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https://vimeo.com/393009508

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Partnership

Commonwealth Sentinel Landscape Coordinating Committee�

Secretary of Agriculture & Forestry

Secretary of Veterans & Defense Affairs

Military Installations

Local Governments

Landowners

NGOs

Federal Coordinating Committee

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What is a Sentinel Landscape?

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“as areas in which natural and working lands are well suited to protect defense facilities from land use that is incompatible with the military's mission”.

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What is a Sentinel Landscape?

An excellent opportunity to achieve multiple missions, combine efforts, and increase our knowledge to enhance the way we all do business together to have the most impact on the common good to benefit our people, our resources, our military and our environment.

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WHY?

Virginia is home to:

  • The Pentagon – headquarters of the Department of Defense
  • The National Guard Bureau – the federal instrument responsible for the administration of the United States National Guard
  • NATO’s Allied Command Transformation – the only NATO headquarters located in the U.S.
  • Major headquarters for the Army, Navy, Air Force, Marines, and Coast Guard
  • The US Navy’s East Coast Master Jet Base – NAS Oceana
  • The largest naval base in the world – Norfolk Naval Station
  • The Headquarters of Air Combat Command and the longest continuously active air force base in the world – the Langley side of Joint Base Langley-Eustis

Military Impacts & Investment

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More Why

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Sentinel Landscapes Lines of Effort

    • Prevent Military Installation Encroachment, While Also Supporting Virginia’s Working Lands.
      • Strengthen Military Readiness through compatible land use with a focus on prioritizing areas of high conservation value.�
      • Retain working forests and agricultural land in areas that are at most risk to conversion.

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Sentinel Landscapes Lines of Effort

    • Build Resilience Against Climate-Induced Hazards (Inland and Coastal Flooding, Drought and Fire Management) to Benefit Military Readiness and Communities.
      • Identify vulnerable assets and determine viable mature-based solutions.

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      • Increase capacity of partners and communities to garner funding for implementation of resilience-based solutions.

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Sentinel Landscapes Lines of Effort

    • Conserve and Restore Key Habitats to Benefit Water Quality and Rare, Threatened and Endangered Species and Prevent Impacts to Military Readiness.
      • Conserve and/or restore habitat off-installation to prevent encroachment of, and support rare, threatened, and endangered species populations and prevent on installation testing and training restrictions
      • Enable off-base marsh migration by establishing resilience corridors to enable conservation of land and waters at scale.

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HOW

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By connecting private landowners around military installations or ranges with government assistance programs that offset the cost of implementing sustainable management practices and conservation projects

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Programs

https://sentinellandscapes.org/landowner-resources/

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Regions

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State & Installation Relationships

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Next Steps

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