Northwest Florida Sentinel Landscape
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Florida
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Established 2022
About
The Northwest Florida Sentinel Landscape encompasses rural and agricultural lands, iconic longleaf pine forests, threatened and endangered species habitat and all northwest Florida’s military installations including Eglin Air Force Base (AFB), Tyndall AFB, Naval Air Station (NAS) Pensacola, NAS Whiting Field, Naval Support Activity Panama City, Eglin Gulf Test and Training Range, Hurlburt Field, Saufley Field, and Corry Station. These nine Department of Defense installations and ranges are integral to military training, weapons testing, special operations, joint cyber warfare and aviation pilot training for Air Force, Navy, Marine Corps and Coast Guard. The Northwest Florida Sentinel Landscape aims to enable collaborative efforts and provide greater access to funding assistance from federal, state, and local governments and private sector programs. These programs will be employed toward military mission assurance, restoring and increasing resiliency and sustainability of habitat and water resources, retaining working agriculture and forest lands as compatible, resilient, and sustainable land uses; mitigating coastal risks, and increasing the resilience of military installations and the landscapes that overlap mission footprints.
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Total Funding by Partner
| Partner | FY2022 | FY2023 |
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| DoD | $9.57M | $2.55M |
| State | $12.09M | $24.76M |
| Private | $2.20M | $0.68M |
| DOI | $2.82M | $1.26M |
| Local | $0.0M | $16.20M |
| USDA | $0.0M | $7.27M |
Total Acres Protected and Enrolled
| Acres Protected (Since Designation) | 35648.00 |
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| Acres Enrolled (During FY22) | 1572649.49 |
Our Partners
Federal Partners
- U.S. Air Force – Air Force Civil Engineer Center
- U.S. Air Force – Eglin Air Force Base
- U.S. Air Force – Hurlburt Field
- U.S. Air Force – Tyndall Air Force Base
- U.S. Department of Agriculture – U.S. Forest Service
- U.S. Department of Defense
- U.S. Department of the Interior – Fish and Wildlife Service
- U.S. Navy – Naval Air Station Pensacola
- U.S. Navy – Naval Air Station Whiting Field
- U.S. Navy – Naval Support Activity Panama City
- USDA – Natural Resources Conservation Service
State Partners
- Emerald Coast Regional Council
- Enterprise Florida (EFI)
- Florida Defense Alliance (FDA)
- Florida Defense Support Task Force (FDSTF)
- Florida Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services – Florida Forest Service
- Florida Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services – Office of Agricultural Water Policy
- Florida Department of Economic Opportunity – Bureau of Community Planning and Growth
- Florida Department of Environmental Protection – Division of State Lands
- Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission
- Northwest Florida Water Management District
- RIDER Center, Florida A&M University-Florida State University College of Engineering
- Southeast Regional Partnership for Planning and Sustainability (SERPPAS)
- Suwannee River Water Management District
Local Partners
- Apalachicola Regional Stewardship Alliance
- Choctawhatchee Bay Estuary Program
- Gulf Coastal Plain Ecosystem Partnership
- Mid-Bay Bridge Authority
- Pensacola and Perdido Bays Estuary Program
- Regional Recreation Economy Alliance
- Southeast Conservation Adaptation Strategy
- Strategic Conservation Assessment of Gulf Coast Landscapes
- Tri-County Defense Support Initiative
- West Florida Defense Alliance
Private Partners
- American Forest Foundation
- Audubon Society Chapters – Apalachee
- Audubon Society Chapters – Bay County
- Audubon Society Chapters – Choctawhatchee
- Audubon Society Chapters – Francis M. Weston
- Community Training Works
- Conservation Florida
- Defenders of Wildlife
- Florida Forestry Association
- Florida Natural Areas Inventory
- Florida Trail Association
- Florida Wildlife Federation
- Longleaf Alliance
- National Wildlife Federation
- Nokuse Plantation & E.O. Wilson Biophilia Center
- Resource Management Service, LLC
- Tall Timbers Research Station and Land Conservancy
- The Conservation Fund
- The Nature Conservancy
- Trust for Public Land
Meet the Coordinators
Kent L. Wimmer, AICP
Kent Wimmer is the Coordinator for the Northwest Florida Sentinel Landscape. He is also Defenders of Wildlife’s Senior Northwest Florida Representative advocating for protecting landscapes and wildlife habitats. Kent has been involved in planning, advocating, and protecting greenways and conservation lands in Florida for over 30 years with federal, state, and local agencies and non-governmental organizations. He is a member of the American Institute of Certified Planners, and he earned a M.S. in Environmental Planning from Florida State University and a B.S. in Natural Resources from Ball State University.
David Wolfe
dwolfe-consultant@defenders.org
David Wolfe is the Private Lands Stewardship Coordinator for the Northwest Florida Sentinel Landscape. He received a Master’s degree in Ecology from the University of Georgia in 1992 and then worked for 28 years in the non-profit conservation sector, first with The Nature Conservancy and then with Environmental Defense Fund. David has vast experience working with public and private landowners, scientists, and diverse stakeholders to design and implement programs to restore, conserve, manage, and monitor habitats for at-risk species. He has worked extensively with regulatory assurance, financial incentive, and market-based programs for species recovery. He is excited to put this experience, as well as recent knowledge he has gained in systems thinking and social science, to work in achieving ambitious private lands goals in the Northwest Florida Sentinel Landscape.
Joy Brown
Joy Brown is the Resilience Specialist for the Northwest Florida Sentinel Landscape. Joy collaborates closely with partners and supporters to identify, implement and accelerate collaborative projects to enhance landscape resilience to protect military missions, community infrastructure and habitats. Brown is coordinating a resilience needs assessment, producing a collective database of projects/partner capacity and accomplishments and providing capacity and support for our partners pursing synergies for funding initiatives and projects. This support focuses on soliciting proposal concepts, convening, and supporting partnerships for proposals, and coordinating and supporting the development and submission of collaborative proposals for near-term resilience projects to enhance landscape resilience for our military installations, infrastructure and ecosystems. She is a native of Walton County and earned her master’s degree from the University of West Florida in Biological Sciences & Coastal Zone Processes. Before joining the NWFSL team, Joy had 15 years of experience with The Nature Conservancy in South Carolina installing resilience projects, coordinating, and leading planning efforts, acquiring grant funds in collaboration with partners and building relationships with military installations.