EXECUTIVE SUMMARY

For more than two years, a team from the University of Georgia’s Carl Vinson Institute of Government, in partnership with the River Valley Regional Commission, Fort Moore, and its Army Compatible Use Buffer partners, worked with six rural counties surrounding Fort Moore: Marion, Chattahoochee, Stewart, Taylor, Talbot, and Russell. The overarching goal of this effort was to develop plans and strategies to promote land uses compatible with the military mission, natural resource protection, and sustainable economic development in the region and that protect rural character and support quality of life. This plan is one of the outcomes of that effort.