Many military installations, National Forests, and other large, Federally-owned or managed facilities are located along the Fall-Line Sandhills from North Carolina to Alabama. On these lands, as well as on privately-owned interior uplands throughout this region, plants and animals associated with this ecosystem are seriously declining in numbers. The red-cockaded woodpecker is endangered. The gopher tortoise has been proposed to be listed. Better management plans for the animal species have been extensive, and often well-funded, but the distinctive plant communities also once present are being lost with very little expressed concern. While building region-wide support for a new tortoise recovery effort, it has become clear that we are also supporting the maintenance of habitat for the numerous unique sandhills plants which require the same conditions of cover and use of controlled fire. The realization dawned that, if we concentrate on restoration of habitat, rather than focusing on the needs of one species at a time, that recovery efforts for all species which share the habitat are thus similarly enhanced. No added costs are involved and multiple benefits may be obtained for both plants and animals at the same time.