Using Land Around Military Installations: State-Federal Partnerships

As troops return home from overseas deployment, more and more men and women must be accommodated and trained at military installations. This growth affects states and surrounding communities in various ways, both positively and negatively. Because military facilities are so important to state and local economies, public officials are working to protect existing military installations within their borders from increasing development and incompatible and uses that may threaten the future viability of the military presence.