America’s Longleaf Restoration Initiative 2013 Range-Wide Accomplishment Report Findings and Recommendations

2 Turning the Corner – Reversing the Decline 2013 Range-Wide Accomplishment Report

1.38 Million Acres in Range-Wide Accomplishment Report

15 Local Implementation Teams in Place Across the Range in Range-Wide Accomplishment Report

Strategic Priority 1 - Longleaf Establishment 2013 Range-Wide Accomplishment Report

Strategic Priority 2 – Improve Existing Longleaf 2013 Range-Wide Accomplishment Report

Strategic Priority 2 – Improve Existing Longleaf 2013 Range-Wide Accomplishment Report

Strategic Priority 3 – Enhance Implementation Longleaf Planting Density Guidance Release of Growth & Yield Models SERPPAS Prescribed Fire Workgroup Expansion of Local Implementation Teams Longleaf Alliance’s 9 th Biennial Conference Longleaf Alliance Academy Programs GCPEP Team member conducting prescribed burn 2013 Range-Wide Accomplishment Report

Strategic Priority 4 – Maintain and Broaden Resource Base Longleaf Stewardship Fund Forestland Stewards Initiative Stewardship Contracting Authority on NFS Lands Land Acquisition and Easement Efforts Gulf Coast Restoration Opportunities Sewee Longleaf Conservation Cooperative 2013 Range-Wide Accomplishment Report

Report Recommendations Emphasis on increasing prescribed burning and other activities on private lands Technical assistance and outreach, with added emphasis on medium and large acreage private landowners Continue the support of local teams and SGA conservation planning and mapping efforts 2013 Range-Wide Accomplishment Report

Report Recommendations (continued) Put into place processes for tracking and monitoring changes in conditions of longleaf pine ecosystems Identify and map range-wide land protection priorities for longleaf pine Increase private/corporate funding through the Longleaf Stewardship Fund and pursue opportunities associated with Gulf Coast recovery efforts 2013 Range-Wide Accomplishment Report