Mission

The University Cooperative for Readiness and Conservation provides a programmatic framework to deliver training, conservation, and solutions that the Department of Defense (DoD) and its partners require to protect and sustain the operational mission footprint, natural resources and rural communities.

Train

Want to stand out to those hiring for natural resource positions within military bases?

The Certificate in Military Sustainability is a unique web-based graduate program (non-thesis) that provides students with an understanding of the interrelationships among ecology, economics, policy and culture, as factors that influence natural resource conservation and management on military lands.

 

Coming together is a beginning.  Keeping together is progress.  Working together is Success.

Henry Ford

Conserve

Did You Know?

  • Approximately 25 million acres of military land, air, and water resources are owned, operated, or managed by the Department of Defense
  • $38 million in funding has been committed to Sentinel Landscapes designations by the federal partnership agencies along with state, private, and non-profit partners through 2015
  • One million acres of U.S. farmland are developed each year
  • More than 300 federally protected plants and animals live on Department of Defense managed lands
  • 50% of all endangered and threatened species in the U.S. are found on private lands

 Learn more about the Sentinel Landscapes Partnership

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Solve

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Longleaf Pine Support

  • Species restoration and regional partnerships promoting military readiness

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JBSA bird/mammal

  • Bird and mammal research on Joint Base San Antonio lands

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Prescribed Fire

  • Implementation of the Comprehensive Prescribed Fire Strategy

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NC Sentinel Landscapes

  • Compatibility of natural resource/military readiness with market driven initiatives

UCRC Partners
Contact Us
For more information on how the UCRC can help your installation, contact:
About UCRC

Together, NCSU and TAMU aim to create active and sustained cooperation between two land grant universities and the Department of Defense for the sustainability of working lands, conservation, and military readiness. UCRC applies strategic, interdisciplinary approaches and development of solutions for installation-based efforts through collaboration and long-term partnerships between both the public and private sectors.

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