Story by 1st Lt. William Hermanson | Camp Ripley Training Center | 03.01.2022
In 2004, an Army Compatible Use Buffer (ACUB) program was established at Camp Ripley. The “Central Minnesota Prairie to Pines Partnership,” the ACUB program at Ripley, maximizes compatible land use by permanently protecting private properties in Cass, Crow Wing, and Morrison Counties that sustain the military mission. Land use protections play a critical role in the State of Minnesota’s......
Story by Lt. Col. Angela King-Sweigart | Fort Indiantown Gap | 03.19.2018
Officials with the installation, Ward Burton Wildlife Foundation, The Nature Conservancy and Capitol Region Water attended a Feb. 28 meeting to approve the paperwork conserving more than 4,000 acres at the DeHart reservoir using the Army Compatible User Buffer Program. This transaction brings the total continuous acreage placed in this conservation easement to more than 8,000 acres. An earlier......
