America’s Longleaf Restoration Initiative2013 Range-Wide Accomplishment ReportFindings and Recommendations

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Turning the Corner – Reversing the Decline

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1.38 Million Acres in 2013

40%

18%2%

3%

14%

23%

1.38 Million Acres

National Forest System Lands

Military Installations

National Wildlife Refuges

Other Federal Lands

State/Local Lands

Private Lands

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15 Local Implementation Teams in Place Across the Range in 2013

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Strategic Priority 1 - Longleaf Establishment

14%

26%

2%8%

1%

2%

46%

156,800 Acres Longleaf EstablishedPublic Lands

Private Lands (Farm Bill In-centives)

Private Lands (USFWS)

Private Lands (State Incentives)

Private Lands (Longleaf Stew-ardship Fund)

Private Lands (reported no in-centives)

Private Lands (projected no incentives)

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47%

21%

4%

11%

5%6%

3%1%

3%

1,100,808 Acres Prescribed Burning

National Forest

Military Installations

Other Federal Lands

State and Local Lands

Public Lands (Longleaf Stewardship Fund)

Private Lands (Farm Bill incentives)

Private Lands (Other Federal/State Incentives)

Private Lands (Longleaf Stewardship Fund)

Private Lands (No Incentives)

Strategic Priority 2 – Improve Existing Longleaf

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Strategic Priority 2 – Improve Existing Longleaf

23,632

4,081

14,391

33,084

Enhancement Accomplishments 75,188 Acres

Mid-Story Treatments

Native Understory Establishment

Invasive Plant Treatments

Over-story Thinning

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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

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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 OpportunitiesSewee Longleaf Conservation Cooperative

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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

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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

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