WEBVTT 00:00.000 --> 11:03.000 [inspiring music] 00:19.139 --> 00:22.849 (Speaker 1) Sentinel is the Soldier at the ready to protect and defend. 00:25.849 --> 00:28.739 The landscape is the environmental qualities. 00:29.109 --> 00:35.489 So I think the set landscape represents a goal to achieve both. 00:46.089 --> 00:48.190 (Speaker 2) We're not just warfighters. 00:48.140 --> 00:50.879 We're land stewards. 00:50.879 --> 00:53.120 That stewardship goes beyond our boundary. 00:54.140 --> 00:57.109 Oh, he's looking at us now. He's looking straight at us. 00:57.209 --> 00:58.940 How cool. 01:00.789 --> 01:07.040 (Lt Col Buck MacLaughlin) Our nation is only getting more crowded. There's more competition and more pressure on resources. 01:07.180 --> 01:13.080 These bases and ranges that used to be out in the middle of nowhere, really aren't anymore. 01:13.100 --> 01:19.060 Civilization is expanding and getting closer and closer to these installations. 01:19.500 --> 01:22.539 If we don't care for the land. If we don't treat it right. 01:22.960 --> 01:26.480 Then we will lose the training mission. 01:36.040 --> 01:40.050 The promise of the Sentinel Landscape is, we have three pillars. 01:40.050 --> 01:51.820 The military mission, vibrant working lands, and that conservation value, that natural landscape. 01:52.040 --> 01:58.060 The combination of those is what really sets a Sentinel Landscape apart. 01:59.040 --> 02:06.000 We need partners on the ground to connect with the Sentinel Landscape's partnership. 02:07.000 --> 02:11.000 Core behind that is also the promise that these three federal agencies. 02:11.080 --> 02:19.020 Department of Defense, Department of Interior, and Department of Agriculture, recognize the contribution of land owners. 02:20.040 --> 02:26.480 We have an opportunity to protect those working lands. To protect those natural areas. 02:28.040 --> 02:33.340 Keeping their lands as farms, ranches, timberlands or open space. 02:33.940 --> 02:39.100 These land owners help to buffer military installations and support conservation. 02:43.930 --> 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. 02:55.050 --> 03:02.000 In supporting a world-class military training mission in and amongst an environment that occurs nowhere else in the world. 03:04.170 --> 03:09.110 (Speaker 3) The size of the Sentinel Landscape works at a scale that nature works at. 03:09.200 --> 03:14.020 Works at a scale where nature actually functions. 03:32.010 --> 03:37.280 (Jeff Jennings) Fort Huachuca is a testing and a training location, primarily. 03:37.780 --> 03:43.930 So from a Sentinel Landscape's perspective, we got about 157 square miles of army space here. 03:44.080 --> 03:48.111 It's about 900 or so square miles of restricted air space. 04:03.029 --> 04:07.010 Because we're flying over it doing electromagnetic testing shooting magnetic electrons around it. 04:07.010 --> 04:09.000 It doesn't disturb the ground. 04:09.039 --> 04:11.080 Our agave are not bothered by it. 04:11.180 --> 04:14.090 The cattle aren't bothered by it. The bats aren't bothered by it. 04:14.150 --> 04:19.239 So it's really a good symbiosis that we can operate in without disturbing the land. 04:19.339 --> 04:22.320 And the plant life and everything that lives there. 04:24.090 --> 04:28.038 (Mark D'Amato) If you notice this whole area is aligned with mountains. 04:28.047 --> 04:30.001 And so we're sitting in a bowl. 04:30.070 --> 04:32.050 It naturally is a relatively quiet place. 04:32.075 --> 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. 04:37.180 --> 04:42.000 And the more noise that it creates, the less effective our testing would be. 04:42.060 --> 04:45.119 It is foundational to being able to get the mission accomplished. 04:45.419 --> 04:49.090 Likewise the fact that we can help the environment. 04:49.090 --> 04:52.860 I mean just look around; look how beautiful this is. 04:52.960 --> 04:56.050 It's rugged, it's extreme and it's diverse. 04:56.055 --> 04:57.200 And it's teeming with wildlife. 04:57.300 --> 05:02.170 This kind of thing just grabbed me and I was like, "Wow, I love this place." 05:17.150 --> 05:22.070 If camp is 53,000 acres, the Sentinel Landscape boundary is about 805,000 acres. 05:22.100 --> 05:25.050 So roughly the size of a major watershed. 05:25.140 --> 05:29.080 When you think about the contribution that that makes to the Mississippi river 05:29.180 --> 05:36.540 It really represents the multiple benefits for the training mission, but then the communities beyond it as well. 05:37.029 --> 05:42.830 Camp Ripley protects on one side and then our Sentinel Landscape Program protects on the other side. 05:43.030 --> 05:49.950 What we're seeing here are just spectacular natural corridors, forested corridors. 05:49.950 --> 05:53.290 Almost in a heartbeat a development could in fact 05:53.290 --> 05:58.470 put houses and other kinds of impacts along the shore that would be not compatible with the resource. 05:58.470 --> 06:02.089 But also not compatible with the post and its trainings. 06:05.889 --> 06:10.450 This is where the water is the healthiest on the whole Mississippi River. 06:10.450 --> 06:15.930 And so there's a.... Well that's cool, Trumpeters cruising right over. 06:17.330 --> 06:21.340 We're being overrun by migratory waterfowl. 06:22.340 --> 06:24.860 Absolutely spectacular. 06:27.060 --> 06:29.480 (Eric Altena) We have the lifeblood of the country, so to speak. 06:29.480 --> 06:32.080 Running right through our backyard. 06:31.280 --> 06:37.010 Even though it's used for training, we still have all this wild landscape. 06:38.810 --> 06:42.850 (Erin Brecker) To think that you're out on a range. 06:42.850 --> 06:47.240 And then you cease fire for the flock of turkeys that's coming through. 06:50.040 --> 06:54.900 To protect what we have left, there really aren't that many places that are still kind of wild. 06:57.040 --> 06:59.180 It's beautiful. 06:59.180 --> 07:04.680 (MacLaughlin) If you look around the country and not only at our military but at our natural areas. 07:04.680 --> 07:08.820 Farms and some of the big ranches and the cornfields across our nation. 07:09.120 --> 07:12.180 The agricultural roots that our country have. 07:12.180 --> 07:15.039 You can really see the passion. 07:21.259 --> 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. 07:29.870 --> 07:35.430 Camp Ripley's been assuring the future of agriculture in the area. 07:35.930 --> 07:37.660 There will never be a house built here. 07:37.660 --> 07:40.759 This will never be broken up. 07:40.759 --> 07:42.990 (Jimmy Wohl) We are neighbors for the Avon Park Air Force Range. 07:42.990 --> 07:46.979 I saw the need to preserve these bigger expanses of openness. 07:48.440 --> 07:51.580 These green landscapes, we can improve our water quality. 07:51.580 --> 07:54.350 We can improve our wildlife habitats. 07:54.350 --> 07:57.479 Maybe bring it back to what it was a hundred years ago. 07:57.479 --> 08:00.010 But we need more people to jump on board. 08:00.010 --> 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. 08:05.889 --> 08:09.360 And that we're passing it on to the next generation. 08:09.360 --> 08:12.380 Everything we do is to improve the quality of life here. 08:12.380 --> 08:17.070 For the wildlife, for ourselves, for the cattle, and to keep it intact. 08:17.070 --> 08:22.380 And to keep it protected where it can never be developed. 08:29.320 --> 08:32.910 (Keisha Tatem) Farmers and ranchers are the world's first conservationists. 08:32.910 --> 08:36.930 They're the ones that are taking care of the land everyday. 08:36.930 --> 08:42.349 These working lands are the best way to protect the natural resources on these landscapes. 08:42.349 --> 08:45.370 And that's not just a benefit to that farmer or that ranch. 08:45.370 --> 08:50.260 That's of benefit to every citizen in this country. 08:50.260 --> 08:53.020 Protecting for our future generations. 08:54.710 --> 08:59.320 (Carlton Ward Jr) For the Sentinel Landscape to really look to the future in bringing the partners together. 08:59.320 --> 09:06.590 To talk about their common goals, it's a model we need to really expand across the country. 09:07.590 --> 09:15.540 (Jennings) The more we can find compatible ways to meet our military mission while also preserving our environment. 09:15.540 --> 09:20.040 The better off we all are into the future. 09:20.040 --> 09:28.731 (Williams) The Sentinel Landscape is an idea that has the possibility of uniting people. 09:28.731 --> 09:32.380 Protecting our ecosystems and enabling our military mission. 09:32.380 --> 09:38.000 We can come together on this idea of a secure future.