Camp Ripley Sentinel Landscape

08/05/2024

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After Lance Chisholm retired a few days ago, Destiny McDonald has taken over the reins as the new easement coordinator at Morrison Soil & Water Conservation District (SWCD).

09/08/2023

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To flip a well-worn sports phrase: The best defense against the negative impacts of climate change is a strategic offense. And that’s what the Camp Ripley Sentinel Landscape Partnership is preparing for.

07/25/2022

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The Camp Ripley Sentinel Landscape includes high quality water features, including 40 miles of the first 400 miles of the Mississippi River and four tributaries; two ecological zones; and thousands of acres of public and private lands. This landscape is one of Minnesota’s most important source dri...

07/25/2022

07/11/2022

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07/08/2022

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Assembling on Thursday morning to discuss forestry work within Camp Ripley’s Sentinel Landscape made possible by a cooperative agreement between the U.S. Department of Agriculture's NRCS and the Morrison Soil & Water Conservation District are, from left: Camp Ripley Environmental Supervisor Josh Pennington; Little Falls-based NRCS District Conservationist Team Lead Josh Hanson; Lt. Col. Steve Hall; Brig. Gen Lowell Kruse, senior commander at Camp Ripley; Morrison SWCD Forester Lew Noska; Morrison SWCD Manager Shannon Wettstein; and Camp Ripley Sentinel Landscape Coordinator Todd Holman, who also serves as The Nature Conservancy’s Mississippi Headwaters program director. An article about how the $400,000 NRCS infusion will expand partners’ capacity to deliver NRCS forestry practices within the Sentinel Landscape is in the works.

03/14/2022

Since the early 1900's wildfires which are essential for sustaining the Native Plant Communities of the eastern United States have been suppressed by human intervention. Private landowners play a critical role in restoring the seasonal fire regimes that our native plants and animals rely upon to flourish. On April 22nd, you are invited to Camp Ripley in order to gain first hand knowledge of the skills you need to help reintroduce this critical ecosystem component to your piece of habitat. Please vist the link below to learn more and register today!

Register soon (space is limited) April 22, 2022 9:30 a.m. – 3:30 p.m. CT Meet at Camp Ripley Education Center (Bldg. 6-76) 15000 Hwy 115, Little Falls, MN 56345 No charge for registration and lunch is included. There will be options for various diets. Landowners in the greater Camp Ripley landscap...

10/26/2021

It all started with the Army Compatible Use Buffer (ACUB) program in 2004, a joint effort between Camp Ripley and the state of Minnesota, working in conjunction with the Morrison SWCD, to purchase the developmental rights through permanent conservation easements to reduce land use conflicts with military operations......

Since Camp Ripley, the Minnesota National Guard’s 53,000-acre military and civilian training facility in Little Falls, was designated as a sentinel landscape in 2016, the first designated on a federal

05/20/2021

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A new project is looking to unlock and map out the history of the Camp Ripley Sentinel Landscape (CRSL).

03/03/2021

The 805,000 acre Camp Ripley Sentinel Landscape began as one of the first buffer programs in the nation permanently protecting land within approximately three miles of Camp. This initiative, originally funded by the DoD Readiness and Environmental Protection Integration (REPI) program lead to the development of the Sentinel Landscapes program and the designation of the Camp Ripley Sentinel Landscape in 2015. The REPI buffer program is still very active around Camp Ripley and throughout the nation and has permanently protected more than 30,000 acres within Camp Ripley's 107,000 acre Army Compatibility Use Buffer (ACUB) to date.

The U.S. military and conservation groups forged an unusual alliance to help save the red-cockaded woodpecker, but a Trump-era move to take it off the endangered list could threaten the bird.