Department of the Interior Department of Defense Cooperative Conservation Initiative:

1. Department of the Interior Department of Defense Cooperative Conservation Initiative: Compatible Land Use as a Transformation Tool Steve Bonner Community Planner DOI Officer in Charge

2. ENCROACHMENT PRESSURESWork Both Ways Commercial Development Light Pollution Maritime Needs Population Encroachment Cultural Interests on Military Lands Air Quality Dust & Smoke Mission Realignment & Consolidation Noise Generation & Abatement Noise Generation & Abatement Radio Frequency Needs Radio Frequency Requirements Military Ability to Train Military Airspace Commercial Airspace Munitions Constituents Wilderness Designations Endangered Species and Provision of Wildlife Habitat Alternative Energy Sources Need for Water Reduced Flexibility for the Military and the Community

3. How DOI Helps • Advise DOD on Policy Development • Facilitate Communication with NGOs • Clearinghouse for Lessons Learned • Facilitation of Community Based Partnerships

4. Why a Community Based Approach? • Partnerships • Diversified Funding • Distributed Risk • Address Fears & Suspicions • Longer term viability • Stakeholder Empowerment • Greater potential for future funding • Reduce potential for political backlash • Ensure community control • Reconcile DOD needs with Economic Development desires

5. Other Benefits • Positive Approach to Land Use • Willing Seller/Willing Buyer • Active tool for JLUS implementation • Often complements local open space need • Tax Base • Increased Land Values • Steady-state Cost of Community Services • Potential Public Access • Willing Landowners • Trails • Parks • Stream Uses • Clean Water/Clean Air • Vegetation filters runoff • Pervious Cover allows percolation • Carbon Sequestration • Potential for use as Mitigation

6. Projects of Interest • State of New Jersey • Partners • NJ Air National Guard • Rutgers University • NJ Green Acres Program • NJ Conservation Foundation • Nature Conservancy • NJ Pinelands Commission • Warren Grove Range safety issues • Statewide MTR issues • Multi-base JLUS? • Leveraging state conservation funds • Camp Shelby, Mississippi • Partners • MS National Guard Bureau • Nature Conservancy • Land Trust for the MS Coastal Plain • JLUS Implementation • Species concerns • Katrina recovery

7. Ft. Sill

8. Ft. Sill Private Lands Initiative Members • Ft. Sill • US Fish & Wildlife Service • USDA (NRCS) • EPA • NPS • KCA tribes • Oklahoma Congressional Delegation • State of Oklahoma • Comanche County • City of Lawton • City of Cache • City of Elgin • City of Medicine Park • Lawton Ft. Sill Chamber of Commerce • Cache Chamber of Commerce • Lawton Constitution • Comanche County Chronicle • KSWO Television • Land Legacy • Private Landowners • Developers

9. Proposed Buffers

10. Several Easements Closed FY06 • $1.93 million+ paid to landowners • Approx. 2 miles of fenceline protected • 20 more deals pending Funding Sources • Farm and Ranchland Protection Program • Private Foundations • State of Oklahoma • Local Government • US Army • FY06 $1 million + Fallout

11. More Info? • Steve Bonner, DOI OIC • 512-245-7263 • steve_bonner@nps.gov