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Jun 28, 2007
The Thin Green Line
An Assessment of DoD's Readiness and Environmental Protection Initiative to Buffer Installation Encroachment
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Over the past few decades, military installations have experienced diminishing open space near their borders from suburban sprawl and other developments. Such encroachment pressures limit the ability to conduct mission-essential testing and training. Such development can also destroy or displace native plant and animal species, the result being that military installations become islands of refuge for threatened and endangered species, which can also restrict an installation’s operations. In 2003, DoD created the Readiness and Environmental Protection Initiative (REPI) to help address such encroachment pressures. The REPI program helps installations implement compatible land use partnering projects with state and local governments and non-governmental organizations to protect non-military land, which helps relieve installation encroachment pressures. In this monograph, RAND researchers assessed the effectiveness of the REPI projects. The authors also identify the main causes of encroachment; detail the benefits, both to the military and local communities, of buffering areas near installations with REPI projects; and provide recommendations for how to improve REPI’s effectiveness.
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Table of Contents
Chapter One
Introduction
Chapter Two
Understanding the Encroachment Threat
Chapter Three
How Encroachment Is Being Addressed
Chapter Four
Methodology and Criteria for Assessing the Accomplishments of the Buffering Activities
Chapter Five
Assessing Accomplishments Across All the Buffering Projects
Chapter Six
Findings
Chapter Seven
Recommendations to Improve Military Conservation Buffering
Appendix A
The Importance of Biodiversity
Appendix B
An Assessment of Eglin AFB’s Buffering Activities
Appendix C
An Assessment of Fort Carson’s Buffering Activities
Appendix D
An Assessment of Fort Stewart’s Buffering Activities
Appendix E
An Assessment of MCAS Beaufort’s Buffering Activities
Appendix F
An Assessment of NAS Fallon’s Buffering Activities
Appendix G
An Assessment of NAS Whiting Field’s Buffering Activities
Appendix H
Background Information on Selected Buffering Projects
Appendix I
The Land Price Trend Analysis
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