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The Mojave Desert Sentinel Landscape in California covers 3.5 million acres of the western Mojave Desert and is home to the Marine Corps Air Ground Combat Center, National Training Center Fort Irwin, Edwards Air Force Base, Naval Air Weapons Station China Lake, and Marine Corps Logistics Base Barstow.

These military bases require off-installation land and airspace to test, transit, and train current and next-generation capabilities. However, this region is increasingly challenged by development pressures that pose significant threats to military operations, including airspace congestion, limited access to training routes, unauthorized off-road vehicle use, and energy development.

To address these challenges, the Mojave Desert Sentinel Landscape brings together a diverse group of state, local, Federal, tribal, and private partners focused on reducing land use conflicts that impact military readiness. They are working collaboratively to reclaim and rehabilitate up to 50,000 acres of priority habitats and mitigate the growing impacts of wildfires, drought, and heat. Their efforts to protect priority habitats also decrease the regulatory burden on military testing and training and improve installation resilience by supporting natural landscapes that are more drought and fire resilient.