Chapter 6 Conservation Goals and Priorities
River. The partners of the ENCSL continue to strengthen military readiness while bolstering forest and farm economies, conserving natural resources for ecosystem services, providing public outdoor recreation opportunities, and addressing resource vulnerability management. • Southeast Regional Partnership for Planning and Sustainability (SERPPAS) is a six-state partnership comprising state and federal agencies that promote collaboration in making resource-use decisions supporting conservation of natural resources, working lands, and national defense. The region covered by SERPPAS includes North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia, Alabama, Florida, and Mississippi. Projects include the Marine Coastal Initiative, Sustainable Forestry Initiative, Strategic Lands Inventory (SLI), and a climate change focus group. • The Readiness and Environmental Protection Integration (REPI) Program preserves military missions by supporting cost-sharing agreements between military services, other federal, state, and local governments, and private organizations to avoid land use conflicts near military installations; addressing environmental restrictions that limit military activities; and increasing military installation resilience. A REPI State Fact Sheet for North Carolina is available online. • Integrated Natural Resources Management Plans (INRMPs) help installation commanders manage natural resources more effectively and in a way that provides for sustainable, healthy ecosystems; comply with all applicable environmental laws and regulations; and provide for no net loss in the capability of military installation lands to support the military mission of the installation. o The Marine Corps Installations East-Marine Corps Base (MCIEAST-MCB) Environmental Management System promotes sustained mission readiness through actively identifying and implementing opportunities for efficient resource use. Camp Lejeune’s INRMP is intended to provide a benefit to, and gain a critical habitat exemption for, the following species: Red-cockaded Woodpecker, Loggerhead Sea Turtle, Green Sea Turtle, Leatherback Sea Turtle, Bald Eagle, Piping Plover, Rough-leaved Loosestrife, Sea-beach Amaranth, Hirsts’ Panic Grass, and Coastal Goldenrod. • The Fort Bragg Directorate of Public Works Environmental Division is responsible for management of all environment, natural, and cultural resources programs to support the twin pillars of training and ecosystem management. The Army INRMP is the installation commander’s comprehensive integrated plan for conservation and management of natural resources to comply with stewardship requirements while optimizing primary military activities.
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