The Military Services manage 25 million acres of diverse landscapes for training and testing. Managing natural resources on these lands is critical to the  military’s mission and important to maintaining the trust and support of the American people.

The USDA Forest Service State and Private Forestry Northeastern Area has an Intereagency Agreement to help the US Army and the other Military Services enhance training, mission readiness, and natural resources through forest stewardship.

• Military lands can provide important environmental values in addition to their strategic importance
• Military lands can become islands of threatened and endangered species habitat as development increases around installations. The Army protects 175 listed species on 96 installations.
• Adequate forest resource information and analysis are needed to manage and sustain training lands.
• The Military Services often lack the

• USDA Forest Service State and Private Forestry Northeastern Area
• US Army Environmental Center, Aberdeen Maryland and military installations around the world
  

 Nearly 150 USDA Forest Service experts have assisted on more than 60 installations. The Army and  other Military Services fund these activities on a reimbursable basis.
Projects include:

• A forest fuels inventory at Moody Air Force Base, Georgia.
• Quality control monitoring for a forest inventory at Clear Air Force Station, Alaska.
•  Wildland fire policy guidance to the Army consistent with USDA Forest Service and National Wildfire Coordinating Group policies. 
• Natural and cultural resources projects for Army, Army National Guard, Air Force, and Marine Corps installations.
• Prescribed fire plans and burns at the New Boston Air Force Station, New Hampshire and Fort Drum, New York. 
• Monitoring stations at Marine Corps Camp Butler, Okinawa, Japan to provide data on the effects of military training on water quality.