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America’s Longleaf Restoration Initiative 2013 Range-Wide Accomplishment Report Findings and Recommendations. 2013 Range-Wide Accomplishment Report. Turning the Corner – Reversing the Decline. 2013 Range-Wide Accomplishment Report. 1.38 Million Acres in 2013.
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America’s Longleaf Restoration Initiative 2013 Range-Wide Accomplishment Report Findings and Recommendations
2013 Range-Wide Accomplishment Report Turning the Corner – Reversing the Decline
2013 Range-Wide Accomplishment Report 1.38 Million Acres in 2013
2013 Range-Wide Accomplishment Report 15 Local Implementation Teams in Place Across the Range in 2013
2013 Range-Wide Accomplishment Report Strategic Priority 1 - Longleaf Establishment
2013 Range-Wide Accomplishment Report Strategic Priority 2 – Improve Existing Longleaf
2013 Range-Wide Accomplishment Report Strategic Priority 2 – Improve Existing Longleaf
2013 Range-Wide Accomplishment Report Strategic Priority 3 – Enhance Implementation • Longleaf Planting Density Guidance • Release of Growth & Yield Models • SERPPAS Prescribed Fire Workgroup • Expansion of Local Implementation Teams • Longleaf Alliance’s 9th Biennial Conference • Longleaf Alliance Academy Programs GCPEP Team member conducting prescribed burn
2013 Range-Wide Accomplishment Report Strategic Priority 4 – Maintain and Broaden Resource Base • Longleaf Stewardship Fund • Forestland Stewards Initiative • Stewardship Contracting Authority on NFS Lands • Land Acquisition and Easement Efforts • Gulf Coast Restoration Opportunities Sewee Longleaf Conservation Cooperative
2013 Range-Wide Accomplishment Report Report Recommendations • Emphasis on increasing prescribed burning and other activities on private lands • Technical assistance and outreach, with added emphasis on medium and large acreage private landowners • Continue the support of local teams and SGA conservation planning and mapping efforts
2013 Range-Wide Accomplishment Report Report Recommendations (continued) • Put into place processes for tracking and monitoring changes in conditions of longleaf pine ecosystems • Identify and map range-wide land protection priorities for longleaf pine • Increase private/corporate funding through the Longleaf Stewardship Fund and pursue opportunities associated with Gulf Coast recovery efforts