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FOREST SERVICE MANUAL
NATIONAL HEADQUARTERS (REGION 4)
BOISE, ID
FSM 5100 – FIRE MANAGEMENT
CHAPTER 5140 – FIRE USE
Interim Directive No.: r4_boise_id_5100-2008-2
Effective Date: June 4, 2008
Duration: This interim directive expires on June 4, 2009
Approved: CECILIA R. SEESHOLTZ
Forest Supervisor
Date Approved: 06/03/2008
Posting Instructions: Interim directives are numbered consecutively by title and calendar
year. Post by document at the end of the chapter. Retain this transmittal as the first page(s) of
this document. The last interim directive was id_5130-2008-1 to FSM 5130.
New Document
id_5140
2 Pages
Superseded Document(s)
(Interim Directive Number
and Effective Date)
id_5140-2007-1, 3/12/2007
3 Pages
Digest:
5140.42 – Updates interim directive for delegation of authorities to approve and monitor
wildland fire use plans.
BOISE NATIONAL FOREST INTERIM DIRECTIVE 5100-2008-2
EFFECTIVE DATE: 6/4/2008
DURATION: This interim directive expires on 6/4/2009.
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FSM 5100 – FIRE MANAGEMENT
CHAPTER 5140 - FIRE USE
5140.42 - Forest Supervisor
3. Delegates authority for RxBPs and WFIPs.
a. Prescribed Fire – District Rangers and formally delegated acting District Rangers
are delegated authority to approve prescribed fire burn plans (RxBPs) provided they
meet requisite fire management knowledge and experience as identified in FSM
Amendment 5140-2008-1 and FSM R-4 Supplement 5140-2004-2. Boise NF District
Rangers who meet these requisites on the effective date of this supplement are: Larry
Tripp, Carol McCoy Brown, Neil Bosworth, and John Erickson. Also refer to the
Boise NF Fire Management Plan (FMP).
Where approval authority is not delegated below the Forest Supervisor, the District
Ranger or acting District Ranger has the authority to stop implementation based on
known or projected situations not considered or apparent during the planning or
implementation of the prescribed burn.
b. Wildland Fire Use – Authority to approve Wildland Fire Use Implementation
Plans (WFIP) requires similar requisites identified in FSM Amendment 5140-2008-1
and FSM R-4 Supplement 5140-2004-2. On the effective date of this interim
directive, no District Rangers are delegated authority to approve WFIPs.
Accordingly, all WFIPs must be approved at the Forest Supervisor level during
national or regional planning levels 1-3, and approved by the Regional Forester at
national or regional planning level 4 or 5.
(1) Strategic Size-up – Zone Duty Officers are responsible for conducting a Strategic
Fire Size-up for all new fire starts within Fire Management Unit 1 (FMU 1). Specific
to the WFU protocol contained within the Boise NF FMP, Duty Officers are
delegated authority to implement a suppression response for all new starts within
FMU 1 that are not approved locations based on the time of year, or are found to be
human-caused.
(2) Decision Criteria Checklist – District Rangers are responsible for completing the
WFU Decision Criteria Checklist to determine suitability for a WFU incident.
(a) District Rangers are delegated authority to initiate suppression response on any
WFU candidate fires that are not deemed acceptable WFU event.
(b) District Rangers will preside over the WFIP development for WFU candidate
fires, and to forward their recommendations for WFU approval to the Forest
Supervisor.
BOISE NATIONAL FOREST INTERIM DIRECTIVE 5100-2008-2
EFFECTIVE DATE: 6/4/2008
DURATION: This interim directive expires on 6/4/2009.
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(3) WFIP Periodic Assessment – District Rangers are delegated authority to conduct
and modify the frequency of periodic assessments for all WFU events, and if the
review indicates a change in the planning stage or fire conditions, the decision
authority reverts back to the Forest Supervisor/Deputy Forest Supervisor.
5140.42 – Exhibit 01
WFU Process
Action
Authority
Strategic Size-Up
Initiate suppression action for fires in FMU 1
that are not in approved locations based on
time of year, or are found to be human-caused.
Zone Duty Officer
Decision Criteria Checklist
Initiate suppression action for fires in FMU 1
that do not meet Boise NF criteria for WFU
implementation, and are deemed unacceptable
WFU event as a result of the Decision Criteria
Checklist.
District Ranger
Recommend approval of WFU
Incident
Upon completion of a WFIP, recommend
candidate fires that are deemed acceptable
wildland fires for resource benefit to the
Forest Supervisor for approval as a WFU
incident.
District Ranger (any)
Approval of WFU Incident
Based on recommendation by District Ranger,
approve or disapprove candidate fires within
FMU 1 as a WFU incident for resource
benefit.
Cecilia Seesholtz (Forest
Supervisor, or the following
actings:
 Frank Guzman
 Dave Olson
 Guy Pence
 Beth Lund
Periodic Assessment of
approved WFU Incident
District Rangers are delegated authority to
conduct and modify the frequency of periodic
assessments for all WFU events, and if the
assessment indicates a change in the planning
stage or fire conditions, the decision authority
reverts back to the Forest Supervisor/Deputy
Forest Supervisor. Approve continuation of
WFIP if incident continues to meet Boise NF
criteria for WFU implementation.
District Ranger and Forest
Supervisor/Deputy Forest
Supervisor.
Approval of WFU Incident in
National or Regional Planning
Level 4 or higher.
If in National or Regional planning level 4 or
5, seek Regional Forester concurrence for any
decisions to approve new WFU incidents
Forest Supervisor and Forest
FMO.