The AR-LA Conservation Delivery Network Open Pine Landscape Restoration Partnership

The first AR-LA Conservation Delivery Network Open Pine Landscape Restoration Regional Conservation Partnership Program (RCPP #2319) was initially approved for 5 years of funding (2022-2026) in 8 counties of Arkansas and 8 parishes of Louisiana. The second Open Pine RCPP (#3631) was approved to go forward to manage with a substantial budget of $21,250,000 with 5 years of funding (2025-2029) in 27 counties of Arkansas and 20 parishes of Louisiana. The total RCPP’s landscape restoration goals are to greatly improve forest health for wildlife resources in the West Gulf Coastal Plain on at least 70,000 acres across both projects.

See the AR-LA WGCP CDN Open Pine Landscape Restoration RCPP #2 (3631) Boundary map below.

Download the updated FY25 (2024-2025) KMZ files for RCPP priority areas below.

Below catalogs the information and primary outreach products developed for this RCPP by its 20+ partners.

Background

• Updated NRCS Factsheet (2024)

• Updated AR-LA RCPP summary (Oct 2024)

• AR-LA RCPP summary

• NRCS Interactive map of ongoing RCPP projects

AR-LA Open Pine RCPP Summaries

• 2024 Final RCPP Annual Contributors Report Narrative 6_1_25

• 2023 Final RCPP Annual Contributors Report Narrative

• 2022 Final RCPP Annual Contributors Report Narrative

• 2021 Final RCPP Annual Contributors Report Narrative

Open Pine Management and Restoration Outreach
Bird-friendly Working Forests Factsheet - Access versions of the factsheet with Austin Klais contact information, with blank space for biologist contacts to be added, with high resolution for printing or low resolution for web.

For assistance reaching out to your local biologist, please reach out to Austin Klais at (501) 425-1985 or aklais@abcbirds.org.