Project Summary Form
Id Number 2006-014
NATIONAL FIRE PLAN COMMUNITY ASSISTANCE AND WILDLAND URBAN-INTERFACE PROJECTS
Application for Fuels Treatment Projects
Applicant
Applicant/Organization:
SW Oregon RC & D
Phone: (111 111-1111 x 1111)
Type of Applicant: (enter appropriate letter in box)
L
541-476-5906
FAX: (111 111-1111 x 1111)
A. State
B. County
C. Municipal
D. Township
E. Interstate
541-955-9574
Please Call Ahead For FAX
H. Independent School District
I. State-Controlled Institution of Higher Learning
J. Private University
K. Indian Tribe
L. Nonprofit Organization
Address (Street or P. O. Box, City, State, Zip):
576 NE E Street Grants Pass, OR 97526
Project Coordinator
Project Coordinator (Name and Title):
Mr. Bjorn Everson Project Coordinator
Organization/Jurisdiction:
Battle Mountain Group (BMG)
Phone: (111 111-1111 x 1111)
541-899-8413
FAX: (111 111-1111 x 1111)
541-899-8413
Call Ahead For FAX ✔
Email:
everson@jeffnet.org
Project Information
Project Title:
Pleasant-Battle Community Hazard Fuels Reduction
Proposed Project Start Date:
05/05/2006
Federal Funding Request:
$ 149,737
Proposed Project End Date:
12/31/2007
Total Project Funding:
$
173,162
Are you submitting multiple projects? If so, please explain and prioritize:
Single submission.
Brief Project Summary: Who, What, Where, Desired Outcomes in relation to NFP Goals and Community Risk Assessment and
Mitigation Plans (This should summarize page 2).
Private landowners high in the Evans Creek drainage have organized to implement landscape-scale fire protection through this fuels reduction
project. This proposal is the second phase of a project designed in consultation with public land managers, community fire planning groups, and
agencies to address the extremely high fire danger in this area. The number of involved landowners has grown to 32. This proposal will treat 137
acres, directly protect 24 homes, and treat 2.4 miles of high risk roadside. Landowners will ensure maintenance of work and assume photopoint
monitoring for evaluation. These efforts address concerns indentified in the Battle Mountain Group [BMG] draft Community Wildfire Protection Plan
as well as completing 3 ridgeline fuel breaks on similarly high risk public & private lands.
Project Location:
Latitude: 42.455
Longitude: 123.17
County:
Jackson
Name of Federal, State or Tribal contact with whom you coordinated this proposal:
Federal Congressional District:
2
Telephone number of Contact:
Leanne Mruzik, Butte Falls RA Fuels Specialist
541-618-2419 Ext.
Teresa Vonn, ODF
541-664-3328 Ext.
Ext.
Project Narrative Description
Applications for funding must include a narrative response that describes the proposal. Please do not submit responses
longer than one page, single space, 12-pitch font.
Describe project including, but not limited to:
x project relationship to the community risk assessment and
x project location (e.g., Watershed,
Address
mitigation plan
neighboring community)
these items
as applicable: x anticipated outcomes
x amount or extent of actions (acres, number of homes, etc.)
x project timeline and matching or contributed funds
x community partners and their
role(s)
x proponent’s ability to complete project
For this project, explain the level of cooperation, coordination or strategic planning, through a “Local Coordination
Group.” If you have not worked with a local coordination group, why not?
Continual updates to LCG coordinators & meetings with partner BLM providing 2 year representation.
Is this project adjacent to a current prescribed burn project on federal lands or to one that is planned within the next
three years? (Yes/No) Yes
Please indicate planned treatments and associated acres:
* Treatment Thinning
Acres 114
Treatment Mastication/Mowing
Acres 23
Treatment Clipping
Acres 0
Treatment Hand Pile Burning
Acres 60
If you have a treatment type other than standard types above:
Pruning
Other 1 Delineate/ 2nd Entry
Acres 137
Other 2
Acres 12
The Battle Mountain Group proposes landscape-scale fire protection with fuels reduction between Pleasant Creek-Sykes Creek & other sites. A
Second Phase was intended by the Old Battle Mouhtain Fire Road Group, [OBMFRG] to also include large roadside connectivity. This depended
upon an active BLM partner and private outreach offered by landowners of the Old Battle Mt. Fire Road Group. We have been fortunate with both.
20+ new landowners show the success of this exciting partnership idea.
A. The SW RC & D measures the quality and quantity of outreach performed by partners, and supports this coordinated fuels reduction project as
fiscal sponsor. The detail of collaborative planning for both "Phase 1" [OBMFRG 2004], & this Pleasant-Battle Proposal- 2005 is unusual and
commendable. Together this Group has developed mutual, clear, on-the-ground plans for treatment types in specific units. These are mapped and
ground-truthed in detail, protecting of large blocks of contiguous managed lands.
B. Professional and community partners support this proposal and have helped develop it over the past year; benefits to & from these members
include: review & consultation/education with 7BFPP to develop a risk assessment map & draft Community Wildfire Protection Plan ; ease of BLM
planning for integrated landscape-scale projects across several years; allows for concentration ODF project planning in conjunction with BMG/BLM
treatment maps; supports Fire Dist.#6 sub-station effort. All private & public partners have 'put their eggs in this basket', collaborating to help each
other design a landscape scale project of mutual benefit and protection.
C. Special outreach by the Battle Mountain Group has added 20+ new landowners, with 414+ more acres under agreement, and 16 new
properties. This BMG hazard reduction treatment protects 24 homes, & 2.4 miles of direct high-risk road frontage. Interest by new people and design
outreach by Battle Mt. neighbors has exceeded all expectations.
This proposal links with approximately 860 proposed hazardous fuels reduction acres identified by the BLM with planned implementation starting
Spring 2006, with 97 acres identified on private land under Phase One [grant tentatively selected to be funded for 2005], & approximately 70 acres of
contiguous defensible space already completed by landowners. All treatment ares proposed for private land were strategically identified and based
on existing fuels hazard and wildfire risk. Mapping of all treatment sites is complete and will assist in identification of future fuels reduction projects
within the Pleasant Creek drainage.
D. Through meetings and on-site tours, the Landowner Lead and Project Coordinator, with support from the BLM, have developed an extensive
project map. The BMG continues to meet together with new landowners. Fiscal, filing, and reporting processes are being worked out now, and this
"second step" is seamless. Project Coordinator & Lead have discussed prescriptions with new & old landowners, & open discussion with all partners
in meetings refines treatment details by consensus. Final GPS & flagging by Landowner Lead & Proj.Cord., with each landowner on-site, will
determine the actual acreage planned as mapped.
E. The Battle Mt. project personally engages landowner participants [and all others] in design planning. Site-visits with neighbors view existing
thinning, to see how it looks & works; education in meetings includes: layout, mapping, working vocabulary, science and monitiring, & silviculture
theory. Fire specific ODF video[we now have our own copy] presentations, and species ID are sample meeting topics. BMG has an 'archiveist'
maintaining all handouts, Power Points, minutes, & notes. Data, decisions, and cookies are shared by all members at surprisingly regular meetings.
F. BMG landowners & Project Cordinator share responsibility for establishing 3 year photopoint monitoring plots. Outreach skills increase in core
members; fuels reduction educational materials & prescription design tools are archived for further neighborhood group development. 2nd year
maintenance treatment which includes delineation of the total acreage forms a large part of the BMG landowner match in this proposal.
Project Evaluation Criteria
Applications for funding must include narrative responses that address the following three criteria. Be sure you address every one
briefly, yet thoroughly. Limit your responses to the area provided.
1. Reducing Hazardous Fuels (50 points)
A. Describe the community infrastructure that will be protected.
B. Explain how the proposal reduces fire behavior in high hazard areas by describing the fuels to be disposed or
removed, and the techniques and timing of the treatments.
C. How will the proposed treatments be maintained in future years?
D. How will you use multi-party monitoring to improve this and future projects?
Response:
A. The Battle Mountain Group has grown up from the OBMFRG, with a new name and new private and professional partners. We
retain all original members and the basic formative structures of the Old Battle Mountain Fire Road Group: mainly that a willingness
to perform treatments across boundaries is just good sense and good neighbors, that all have a say, and that partner landowners
& managers have a personal veto for treatments on lands in their care. Professional partners guide the landowner base in
treatment design, risk assessment, CWPP, fire protection concerns. We continue to be pleased and sometimes tickled with our
diversity, and the partnerships continue to grow. Local trust in neighbor-designed prescriptions is huge.
B. Field team BLM-BMG has identified fuel loads, additional private-public interface, & connective zones on-the-ground. Chainsaw
and machine thinning, handpiling and chipping by a crew in a workforce-training program begins in Spring 2006. Private and public
treatment specialists have collaboratively designed mutually beneficial treatments that enhance each partners' contiguous fuels
reduction projects. The Workplan begins Spring 2006 with roadside & upland fuels treatments, primarily small poles and brush
removal in mixed hardwood-conifir stands with immediate burning, chipping, piling. Pruning in 12 roadside acres is an additional
layered treatment. One ridgetop shaded fuel break between Sykes Ck. and Pleasant Ck., and 2 other ridgetops will be completed
by hand and machine throughout Summer-Winter 2006, with chipping or piling, and be burnt in pring 2007.
C. BMG landowners assume responsibility for a 'second entry' maintenance, and will survey & delineate the 137 treated acres to
determine 'highest need' during 2007. Acres will be selected to the amount pledged and treated in 2007-8. This unusual match
significantly increases long-term project value & fuel hazard reduction, but this is an unsusally responsible group of landowners.
Roadside treatments meet ODF 20-year no-entry standards, and BLM & private machine treatments will match or exceed this.
Private landowners will burn piles in Spring 2006 & Winter 2006-7. Chipping will occur at all points where mulch is beneficial in
reducing annual fuels, and may proceed almost all year. The core landowners continue re-entry thinning on their own, [as before
any grants were proposed], that is, almost constantly. 'New' landowners include professional woodcutters & contractors who also
are comfortable doing or supporting maintenance work. Members unable to perform their own maintenance work have already
found willing neighborly help. Detail [pruning], and intensity [roadside thinning, shaded fuel-break] in initial treatments reduces the
volume of maintenance work, helping make this landowner-based offer practical.
D. Battle Mountain Group landowners and Project Coordinator commit to establishing photopoint monitoring sites within the
treatment project to be maintained a minimum of 3 years. Sociometric and physical quantities will be collected and tabulated for a
Final Report. Multi-party is built into the Battle Mountain Group, is the essence of this group; active professionial and private
partners will map past & future treatments, to provide visual perspective for final reports quantitified to NFP standards. A very
active group, Battle Mountain principals intend further outreach, and enjoy sharing lessons learned; the BMG intentionally works to
accept input and partnership to constantly improve outreach methods for their own and others' projects. Local landowners willing to
host treatment 'tours' increases interest. Finalization of our Community Wildfire Protection Plan includes risk assessment mapping
as part of 2006 general Project Mapping, and will help us to meet FPP Mitigation Plan standards.This is a substantial base for
future project development or use.
Project Evaluation Criteria
2.
Increasing Local Capacity (25 points)
A. How would the proposal improve or lead to the improvement of the local economy in terms of jobs and
sustainable economic activity?
B. How many jobs are expected to be created or retained and for how long? (Please distinguish between
essentially year-round and seasonal jobs).
C. What tools and skills will be gained or utilized as a result of this project?
D. Will biomass be utilized; if so, in what manner and how much?
Response:
A. Support from both 2B Forests & Lomakatsi workforce-training contractors adds to BMG options. This increased local capacity
leads to a stabilized workforce, generating a vested interest in community. Workers trained to see science-based prescriptions
provide superior quality work, are in higher demand, and work longer. Augments local small contractors cash flow helping to retain
machine & hand capacity locally. Retains important scale-appropriate machines, [large chippers and 5 small masticators], available in
the area for additionnal fuels reduction.
B. 6+ workers and 2 landowners augment other professional woods work to meet a full time definition. They remain available as
local woods professionals with multiple skills providing employment nearly year-round in forest management, their primary
management task being fuels reduction.
C. Multiple skills accrue to workers, with certification including species-driven restoration and fuels reduction, chipper, & project
prescription design.
Significant outreach and implimentation skills are gained by BMG, who seek to encourage grass roots projects with multiple
neighbors. Intents of the OBMFRG to "replicate treatments in surrounding ... areas" has succeeded with this proposal, & 'next steps'
are being considered.
D. No biomass fuels are utilized; some small diameter shaded fuel-break salvage may be possible with Summit Wood Products;
limited firewood salvage; all slash is chipped or piled & burned.
3.
Demonstrating Community and Intergovernmental Collaboration (25 Points)
A. How will this project implement a community risk assessment and mitigation plan? Include name of plan, date
it was prepared, and local contact to get a copy of the plan if requested.
B. How has this treatment been coordinated with adjacent landowners and local/State/Tribal/Federal agencies?
C. Identify the cooperators/partners involved in implementation of this project.
D. Describe the extent of current local support for the project, including any cost-sharing agreements.
Response:
A. This proposal meets objectives of the draft BMG CWPP, and project design is correlated with initial risk assessment. Completed
CWPP risk assessment in Winter 2005-Spring 2006 is a required part of design, layout, & mapping for this project, & includes
previous treatment evaluation. This neighborhood group falls under the 7 Basins Fire Planning Project general guidelines, and
supliments those goals. This draft Mitigation Plan is available from Gail Perritti, 541-830-3781.
B. Ideas & input for this proposal were initially solicited from professional partners in early 2004. The team of BLM, Landowner
Lead, and Project Coordinator regularly exchange information, sharing intents & decisions with all partners. Regular Battle
Mountain Group meetings have been held in Fall/Winter/Spring 2004-5. Proposed units have been selected by BLM-BMG teams,
with resulting maps & acreages. Landowners have been hosted and informed by neighbors, door-to-door outreach convincing
neighbors of the benefits of mutual treatments & creating a working neighborhood network. ODF coordinates its efforts & funds with
proposed BMG & BLM projects, & reaches a large private audience with quality educational tools, opportunities, & information.
C. SW RC & D Amy Wilson
476-5906
ODF Teresa Vonn 664-3328
BMG Chair Leonard Bricker 582-9775
BLM Leanne Mruzik 618-2419
7 Basin FPP Gail Perrotti 830-3781
ProjCor Bjorn Everson 899-8413
Fire Ds. #6 Bill Fuller
582-0678
7BWC Paul Howell 941-3856 D. Large Landowner Match delineats & performs
'second entry' maintenance, outreach, one half of field administration, fire vehicle turnouts, and burning, & totals $22325. Other
Match $950. Possible cost offset with salvage @ $2000.
Project Work Form
Tasks
Project Design with Battle Mountain partners;
mapping integration of new members, ODF
treatments, & extensive BLM projects.
Layout, GPS, and flagging. Monitor acreage.
Cordination of Landowners & Crew.
Photopoints established.
Time Frame
Responsible Party
Battle Mountain Group: Landowner
Lead (LL) & BLM Partner
2004 to present
Battle Mountain Group: Landowner
Lead (LL) & Proj. Coord.
Spring 2006-Spring 2007
Hand treatment, pile, chip
Machine treatments;
Local private workforce training
contractor, local machine contractors
Spring 2006 - Spring 2007
Treatment Implememtation & Compliance; onsite coordination of logistics;
Training & verification; Risk Assessment;
Project Coordinator
Spring- Fall 2006
Ridgeline fuels break and connecting sections
Erosion control
Local private contractors
Fall 2006
Private local workforce-training
contractors
Burn handpiles; delineate Maintenance Entry
acres
Winter2006-Fall 2007
BMG landowners
Neighborhood/Partner Outreach, Site Tours,
Media Ops, Phase 3 Roundtable
Battle Mountain Group, Project
Coordinator
Spring 2007
Project Coordinator
Final Reports
Project Potluck
Photopoint Monitoring (3 years), &
Maintenance Entry
Winter 2007-8
Battle Mountain Group Partners
Battle Mt. Group Landowners
Project Budget
Battle Mt. Group
Cost Category
Description
Federal
Agency
Applicant
BLM
Partner 1
Labor Contractor
Partner 2
Total
Partner 3
Personnel
Thin, flag, chip, prune,
Layout, GPS, Maps, Sup.
Subtotal
$76,400
$0
$0
$0
$0
$76,400
$7,562
$0
$0
$0
$0
$7,562
$83,962
$0
$0
$0
$0
$83,962
$0
$0
$35,700
Fringe Benefits
OPE
$35,700
$0
$0
$0
$0
$0
$0
$0
$0
$0
$35,700
$0
$0
$0
$35,700
$0
$250
$0
$0
$700
$950
$0
$0
$0
$0
$0
$250
$0
$0
$0
$700
$950
$3,000
$0
$0
$0
$0
$3,000
$12,075
$0
$0
$0
$0
$12,075
$15,075
$0
$0
$0
$0
$15,075
$0
$0
$0
$0
$0
$0
$0
$0
$0
$0
$0
$0
$0
$0
$0
$0
$0
$0
$6,000
$0
$0
$0
$0
$6,000
$9,000
$0
$0
$0
$0
$0
$9,000
$15,000
$0
$0
$0
$15,000
BMG MATCH-Burn, OR, M
$0
$0
$9,650
$0
$0
$9,650
BMG MATCH-Maint. Entr
$0
$12,825
$0
$0
$12,825
$0
$0
$0
$22,475
$0
$0
$22,475
$149,737
$250
$22,475
$0
$700
$173,162
$0
$0
$0
$0
$0
$0
Subtotal
Travel
Monitoring, Field Admin.
$0
Subtotal
Equipment
Chipper, rental
Machine Thinning 23 ac
Subtotal
Supplies
Subtotal
Contractual
SW RC & D Fiscal Oversi
Project Coordination
Subtotal
Other
Subtotal
Total Costs
Project (Program)
Income1
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1
Program income is the gross revenue generated by a grant or cooperative agreement supported activity during the life of the grant. Program
income can be made by recipients from fees charged for conference or workshop attendance, from rental fees earned from renting out real
property or equipment acquired with grant or cooperative agreement funds, or from the sale of commodities or items developed under the grant
or cooperative agreement. The use of Program Income during the project period may require prior approval by the granting agency.