Southern Indiana Sentinel Landscape
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Indiana
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Established 2022
About
The Southern Indiana Sentinel Landscape is anchored by four critical DoD installations and ranges: Naval Support Activity Crane, the Lake Glendora Test Facility, Atterbury-Muscatatuck Training Center, and the Indiana Air Range Complex. These installations and ranges provide a variety of testing and training opportunities for the Army, Navy, Air Force, Marine Corps, National Guard, as well as federal and state partners. This vast landscape also contains six state parks, seven state forests, nine state fish and wildlife areas, 39 state-dedicated nature preserves, one National Forest, and three National Wildlife Refuges. With the primary objective of preserving and protecting military mission readiness, operations, testing and training capabilities, the Southern Indiana Sentinel Landscape partners will also promote and support agricultural and working lands; provide for watershed and riparian corridor protections thus promoting landscape resiliency; sustain and restore forest lands through sustainable land management and protections; and ensure endangered, threatened and at-risk species protection through habitat preservation and restoration.
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Total Funding by Partner
| Partner | FY2022 | FY2023 |
|---|---|---|
| State | $1.18M | $0.38M |
| Private | $3.34M | $4.85M |
| DOI | $0.01M | $0.10M |
| DoD | $0.0M | $0.50M |
| USDA | $0.0M | $6.64M |
Total Acres Protected and Enrolled
| Acres Protected (Since Designation) | 2399.00 |
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| Acres Enrolled (During FY22) | 580958.16 |
Our Partners
Federal Partners
Other
- American Bird Conservancy
- Central Hardwoods Joint Venture
- Conservation Cropping Systems Initiative
- Conservation Law Center
- Friends of Lake Monroe
- Indiana Association of Soil and Water Conservation Districts
- Indiana Corn Marketing Council
- Indiana Forestry and Woodland Owners Association
- Indiana Prescribed Fire Council
- Indiana Soybean Alliance
- IU Environmental Resilience Institute
- Let the Sunshine IN (LSSI)
- National Wild Turkey Federation
- Radius Indiana
- Regional Opportunities Initiative
- State of Indiana Cooperative Invasives Management
- The Nature Conservancy
- White River Military Coordination Alliance
Meet the Coordinators
Michael Spalding
mspalding@sentinellandscapes.org
Michael Forest Spalding is the Coordinator for the Southern Indiana Sentinel Landscape with the Conservation Law Center in Bloomington, Indiana. Michael earned a Bachelor of Science in Forestry from Purdue University’s College of Agriculture in 2005. Since that time, he has performed conservation work in 55 counties throughout Indiana. He began his career as a field forester with a forestry consulting firm and has spent the past 15 years managing over 100,000 acres of public forests at Jackson-Washington, Yellowwood, and Morgan-Monroe State Forests as well as Atterbury-Muscatatuck Training Center. Michael brings a vast array of experience on both private and public lands in southern Indiana as well as a thorough knowledge of landscape-level threats to conservation and the work needed to restore the landscape.
Rob McCrea
rmccrea@sentinellandscapes.org
Rob McCrea is the Landscape Conservation Attorney at the Conservation Law Center. His practice focuses on land conservation projects in Indiana with a particular focus on the Southern Indiana Sentinel Landscape. Rob earned a Bachelor of Science in Ecology and Natural History from Prescott College and a law degree from Lewis & Clark Law School. Prior to joining the team at Conservation Law Center, Rob was in private law practice at McCrea & McCrea and also worked as the Land Preservation Director at Sycamore Land Trust in Bloomington, Indiana. Rob’s experience working with landowners on conservation projects and conservation easements will help implement key components of the Southern Indiana Sentinel Landscape.