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Source: NCDA&CS, 10/29/12
The Market Based Conservation Initiative, which is funded by the U.S. Marine Corps, is a collaborative project involving several different partners that will help stop encroachment, sustaining and enhancing a mission-critical, low-altitude military training route and the rural working and conservation lands to which it is linked. The project will provide landowners the opportunity to receive annual compensation for agreeing to keep their land in compatible uses of agriculture, forestry and wildlife through term contracts administered by the N.C. Foundation for Soil and Water Conservation.
Commissioner Troxler attended a formal signing ceremony on Sept. 21, establishing the official agreement between the U.S. Department of Navy and the N.C. Foundation for Soil and Water Conservation. The Navy Department pledged $2 million toward landowner contracts, enabling the project to move forward.
A big thank you to all of the partners who have worked on this project: Office of U.S. Secretary of Defense, U.S. Department of Navy, U.S. Marine Corps, U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Natural Resource Conservation Service, U.S. Sen. Richard Burr, Gov. Beverly Perdue, N.C. Farm Bureau Federation, N.C. Department of Environment and Natural Resources, N.C. Department of Commerce, N.C. State University, N.C. Association of Soil and Water Conservation Districts, N.C. Forestry Association, N.C. State Grange, Environmental Defense Fund, Texas A&M University and others.
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