1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:11:03,000 [inspiring music] 2 00:00:19,139 --> 00:00:22,849 (Speaker 1) Sentinel is the Soldier at the ready to protect and defend. 3 00:00:25,849 --> 00:00:28,739 The landscape is the environmental qualities. 4 00:00:29,109 --> 00:00:35,489 So I think the set landscape represents a goal to achieve both. 5 00:00:46,089 --> 00:00:48,190 (Speaker 2) We're not just warfighters. 6 00:00:48,140 --> 00:00:50,879 We're land stewards. 7 00:00:50,879 --> 00:00:53,120 That stewardship goes beyond our boundary. 8 00:00:54,140 --> 00:00:57,109 Oh, he's looking at us now. He's looking straight at us. 9 00:00:57,209 --> 00:00:58,940 How cool. 10 00:01:00,789 --> 00:01:07,040 (Lt Col Buck MacLaughlin) Our nation is only getting more crowded. There's more competition and more pressure on resources. 11 00:01:07,180 --> 00:01:13,080 These bases and ranges that used to be out in the middle of nowhere, really aren't anymore. 12 00:01:13,100 --> 00:01:19,060 Civilization is expanding and getting closer and closer to these installations. 13 00:01:19,500 --> 00:01:22,539 If we don't care for the land. If we don't treat it right. 14 00:01:22,960 --> 00:01:26,480 Then we will lose the training mission. 15 00:01:36,040 --> 00:01:40,050 The promise of the Sentinel Landscape is, we have three pillars. 16 00:01:40,050 --> 00:01:51,820 The military mission, vibrant working lands, and that conservation value, that natural landscape. 17 00:01:52,040 --> 00:01:58,060 The combination of those is what really sets a Sentinel Landscape apart. 18 00:01:59,040 --> 00:02:06,000 We need partners on the ground to connect with the Sentinel Landscape's partnership. 19 00:02:07,000 --> 00:02:11,000 Core behind that is also the promise that these three federal agencies. 20 00:02:11,080 --> 00:02:19,020 Department of Defense, Department of Interior, and Department of Agriculture, recognize the contribution of land owners. 21 00:02:20,040 --> 00:02:26,480 We have an opportunity to protect those working lands. To protect those natural areas. 22 00:02:28,040 --> 00:02:33,340 Keeping their lands as farms, ranches, timberlands or open space. 23 00:02:33,940 --> 00:02:39,100 These land owners help to buffer military installations and support conservation. 24 00:02:43,930 --> 00:02:55,019 We sit here in the northern everglades and play a role in arguably one of the most famous natural landscapes on the planet. 25 00:02:55,050 --> 00:03:02,000 In supporting a world-class military training mission in and amongst an environment that occurs nowhere else in the world. 26 00:03:04,170 --> 00:03:09,110 (Speaker 3) The size of the Sentinel Landscape works at a scale that nature works at. 27 00:03:09,200 --> 00:03:14,020 Works at a scale where nature actually functions. 28 00:03:32,010 --> 00:03:37,280 (Jeff Jennings) Fort Huachuca is a testing and a training location, primarily. 29 00:03:37,780 --> 00:03:43,930 So from a Sentinel Landscape's perspective, we got about 157 square miles of army space here. 30 00:03:44,080 --> 00:03:48,111 It's about 900 or so square miles of restricted air space. 31 00:04:03,029 --> 00:04:07,010 Because we're flying over it doing electromagnetic testing shooting magnetic electrons around it. 32 00:04:07,010 --> 00:04:09,000 It doesn't disturb the ground. 33 00:04:09,039 --> 00:04:11,080 Our agave are not bothered by it. 34 00:04:11,180 --> 00:04:14,090 The cattle aren't bothered by it. The bats aren't bothered by it. 35 00:04:14,150 --> 00:04:19,239 So it's really a good symbiosis that we can operate in without disturbing the land. 36 00:04:19,339 --> 00:04:22,320 And the plant life and everything that lives there. 37 00:04:24,090 --> 00:04:28,038 (Mark D'Amato) If you notice this whole area is aligned with mountains. 38 00:04:28,047 --> 00:04:30,001 And so we're sitting in a bowl. 39 00:04:30,070 --> 00:04:32,050 It naturally is a relatively quiet place. 40 00:04:32,075 --> 00:04:37,100 So we like the fact that it's pristine, because if a lot of things were to move in here it would create more noise. 41 00:04:37,180 --> 00:04:42,000 And the more noise that it creates, the less effective our testing would be. 42 00:04:42,060 --> 00:04:45,119 It is foundational to being able to get the mission accomplished. 43 00:04:45,419 --> 00:04:49,090 Likewise the fact that we can help the environment. 44 00:04:49,090 --> 00:04:52,860 I mean just look around; look how beautiful this is. 45 00:04:52,960 --> 00:04:56,050 It's rugged, it's extreme and it's diverse. 46 00:04:56,055 --> 00:04:57,200 And it's teeming with wildlife. 47 00:04:57,300 --> 00:05:02,170 This kind of thing just grabbed me and I was like, "Wow, I love this place." 48 00:05:17,150 --> 00:05:22,070 If camp is 53,000 acres, the Sentinel Landscape boundary is about 805,000 acres. 49 00:05:22,100 --> 00:05:25,050 So roughly the size of a major watershed. 50 00:05:25,140 --> 00:05:29,080 When you think about the contribution that that makes to the Mississippi river 51 00:05:29,180 --> 00:05:36,540 It really represents the multiple benefits for the training mission, but then the communities beyond it as well. 52 00:05:37,029 --> 00:05:42,830 Camp Ripley protects on one side and then our Sentinel Landscape Program protects on the other side. 53 00:05:43,030 --> 00:05:49,950 What we're seeing here are just spectacular natural corridors, forested corridors. 54 00:05:49,950 --> 00:05:53,290 Almost in a heartbeat a development could in fact 55 00:05:53,290 --> 00:05:58,470 put houses and other kinds of impacts along the shore that would be not compatible with the resource. 56 00:05:58,470 --> 00:06:02,089 But also not compatible with the post and its trainings. 57 00:06:05,889 --> 00:06:10,450 This is where the water is the healthiest on the whole Mississippi River. 58 00:06:10,450 --> 00:06:15,930 And so there's a.... Well that's cool, Trumpeters cruising right over. 59 00:06:17,330 --> 00:06:21,340 We're being overrun by migratory waterfowl. 60 00:06:22,340 --> 00:06:24,860 Absolutely spectacular. 61 00:06:27,060 --> 00:06:29,480 (Eric Altena) We have the lifeblood of the country, so to speak. 62 00:06:29,480 --> 00:06:32,080 Running right through our backyard. 63 00:06:31,280 --> 00:06:37,010 Even though it's used for training, we still have all this wild landscape. 64 00:06:38,810 --> 00:06:42,850 (Erin Brecker) To think that you're out on a range. 65 00:06:42,850 --> 00:06:47,240 And then you cease fire for the flock of turkeys that's coming through. 66 00:06:50,040 --> 00:06:54,900 To protect what we have left, there really aren't that many places that are still kind of wild. 67 00:06:57,040 --> 00:06:59,180 It's beautiful. 68 00:06:59,180 --> 00:07:04,680 (MacLaughlin) If you look around the country and not only at our military but at our natural areas. 69 00:07:04,680 --> 00:07:08,820 Farms and some of the big ranches and the cornfields across our nation. 70 00:07:09,120 --> 00:07:12,180 The agricultural roots that our country have. 71 00:07:12,180 --> 00:07:15,039 You can really see the passion. 72 00:07:21,259 --> 00:07:28,850 (Dave and Jesse Brutchers) In our way us farmers out here really, really do care about the resources we're entrusted with. 73 00:07:29,870 --> 00:07:35,430 Camp Ripley's been assuring the future of agriculture in the area. 74 00:07:35,930 --> 00:07:37,660 There will never be a house built here. 75 00:07:37,660 --> 00:07:40,759 This will never be broken up. 76 00:07:40,759 --> 00:07:42,990 (Jimmy Wohl) We are neighbors for the Avon Park Air Force Range. 77 00:07:42,990 --> 00:07:46,979 I saw the need to preserve these bigger expanses of openness. 78 00:07:48,440 --> 00:07:51,580 These green landscapes, we can improve our water quality. 79 00:07:51,580 --> 00:07:54,350 We can improve our wildlife habitats. 80 00:07:54,350 --> 00:07:57,479 Maybe bring it back to what it was a hundred years ago. 81 00:07:57,479 --> 00:08:00,010 But we need more people to jump on board. 82 00:08:00,010 --> 00:08:05,889 (Erin Williams) It's worthwhile to see the fact that we still own it and we still have it in our family. 83 00:08:05,889 --> 00:08:09,360 And that we're passing it on to the next generation. 84 00:08:09,360 --> 00:08:12,380 Everything we do is to improve the quality of life here. 85 00:08:12,380 --> 00:08:17,070 For the wildlife, for ourselves, for the cattle, and to keep it intact. 86 00:08:17,070 --> 00:08:22,380 And to keep it protected where it can never be developed. 87 00:08:29,320 --> 00:08:32,910 (Keisha Tatem) Farmers and ranchers are the world's first conservationists. 88 00:08:32,910 --> 00:08:36,930 They're the ones that are taking care of the land everyday. 89 00:08:36,930 --> 00:08:42,349 These working lands are the best way to protect the natural resources on these landscapes. 90 00:08:42,349 --> 00:08:45,370 And that's not just a benefit to that farmer or that ranch. 91 00:08:45,370 --> 00:08:50,260 That's of benefit to every citizen in this country. 92 00:08:50,260 --> 00:08:53,020 Protecting for our future generations. 93 00:08:54,710 --> 00:08:59,320 (Carlton Ward Jr) For the Sentinel Landscape to really look to the future in bringing the partners together. 94 00:08:59,320 --> 00:09:06,590 To talk about their common goals, it's a model we need to really expand across the country. 95 00:09:07,590 --> 00:09:15,540 (Jennings) The more we can find compatible ways to meet our military mission while also preserving our environment. 96 00:09:15,540 --> 00:09:20,040 The better off we all are into the future. 97 00:09:20,040 --> 00:09:28,731 (Williams) The Sentinel Landscape is an idea that has the possibility of uniting people. 98 00:09:28,731 --> 00:09:32,380 Protecting our ecosystems and enabling our military mission. 99 00:09:32,380 --> 00:09:38,000 We can come together on this idea of a secure future.