Compatible Use Project Highlights
As communities and military bases grow, cooperative land use planning ensures that the needs of the community and base are not negatively impacted by future development. Working collaboratively with both the military installation and local community, OEA is able to identify current and potential problems. After completing a joint land use study like the communities below, OEA works with the community to help implement the recommendations.
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Aerial View of Volk Field
Volk Field/Hardwood Range, Wisconsin
Military Mission
Volk Field is an Air National Guard Base owned by the State of Wisconsin and encompasses 2,336 acres near the Village of Camp Douglas. Volk Field, with the associated Air National Guard Combat Training Center, is one of the very few wholly Air National Guard-owned airfields in the Guard inventory. In addition, the Training Center manages over 10,000 square miles of military special use airspace, as well as the 7,300-acre Hardwood Air to Ground Gunnery Range (R-6904), which is owned by the State of Wisconsin and located near Finley, 29 miles from Volk Field. More than 200 active duty and Reserve Component units from all Military Departments use the facility annually. Hardwood Range provides training for combat aircrews for air-to-ground weapons delivery.
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F-22 Raptor at Holloman AFB
Military Mission
White Sands Missile Range (WSMR), Holloman Air Force Base (AFB), and Fort Bliss are contiguous installations located in southern New Mexico and western Texas, in the New Mexico Counties of Otero, Doña Ana, Sierra, Socorro, and Lincoln, and the Texas County of El Paso. The installations are located near the Cities of Las Cruces and Alamogordo, New Mexico, and El Paso, Texas. In combination, the three installations encompass more than 3.3 million acres and restricted airspace covering nearly 10,000 square miles. Interdependent missions and assets abound across the three installations. WSMR, Holloman AFB, and Fort Bliss coordinate airspace, range usage, and frequency spectrum for multiple users through a regional partnership called “The Triad.”
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