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Project Application ID:
Funding Request:
Matching Share:
Total Project Cost:
2009-008
$200,000
$200,500
$400,500
NATIONAL FIRE PLAN WILDLAND-URBAN INTERFACE
COMMUNITY ASSISTANCE GRANT PROPOSAL
Applicant Information
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Applicant/Organization Washington State Department of Natural Resources
Type of Applicant: State
Contact Person: Steve Harris
Address: DNR, P.O. Box 190
City Colville
State Washington
Zip: 99114
Phone: 509-684-7474
Ext. 2712
Call Ahead for FAX:
FAX: 509-684-7484
Phone (Work/Cell): 509-995-4373
Email: steve.harris@dnr.wa.gov
Project Information
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Name of Project: Blue Slide Fuels Reduction
Proposed Start Date: 07-01-09
Proposed End Date:
City: Blue Slide
State:
County: Pend Orielle
Congressional District:
Latitude (decimal degrees): 48.556
Longitude (decimal degrees):
Please indicate planned treatments and associated acres
11-30-10
Washington
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-117.346
400
Total Actual Project Acres:
Treatment (1)
Acres
Treatment (2)
Acres
Total Treatment Acres
Thinning
400
Chipping
200
Treatment (3)
Acres
Treatment (4)
Acres
800
HandPile Burn
100
Mastication/Mowing
100
Treatment (5)
Acres
Treatment (6)
Acres
Cost Per Acre
0
0
Treatment (other-A) Acres
Treatment (other-B)
Acres
$ 500.62
0
0
Please indicate how this project relates to a Community Wildfire Protection Plan (CWPP):
This community has a wildfire protection plan that follows the Healthy Forest Restoration Act
CWPP guidelines.
yes
This project is identified in the CWPP.
yes
Name of CWPP Pend Orielle County CWPP
Name of Community at Unincorporated Area Near Blue Slide
Risk:
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Project Area Description
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Provide a brief overview of the project and the project area. (If applying for a fuels reduction
project, identify vegetation types, fire regime) [1500 Characters Maximum]
The desired outcome is to reduce the risk of catastrophic wildfire through a coordinated effort of
fuel reduction projects across private and federal lands within the Wildland Urban Interface (WUI)
of the Blue Slide community in NE Washington. The project focuses on the private lands
prioritized in the Pend Orielle County CWPP for fuels reduction. It complements the USFS Misery
& Hanlon WUI fuel reduction projects that are underway in this area (see map).
The project will focus on the development of strategically located fuel breaks and defensible space
treatements. Theses treatments will modify fire size, intensity and behavior; thereby reducing risk
to lives, homes, infrastructure and natural resources. The fuel breaks will assist firefighters in fire
suppression, reduce costs and increase firefighter safety.
The project proposes to thin, prune and remove fuel ladders using chainsaws, chippers, masticators
and burn piles. Landowners and local contract crews will conduct the fuel reduction treatments.
The project will use the proven cost-share approach in which the landowner applicant provides a
significant portion of the treatment. Feedback from the CWPP process confirms a willingness of
landowners to participate in a cost share program.
The fuel type in the project area consists of mixed conifers with dense understory of regeneration.
Pockets of tree mortality occur throughout. The project area consist of fire regime 2 & 3, condition
class 2 & 3.
Project Timeline
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Provide a timeline for the project. [500 Characters Maximum]
Spring 2009: Targeted promotion and landowner outreach/recruitment.
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Summer/Fall 2009: Field visits, project layout and fuels reduction initiation.
Summer/Fall 2010: Fuels reduction projects and monitoring are completed.
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Scope of Work
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Provide a brief scope of work which clearly describes how grant funds will be spent. (This
should be more specific than the project description) [1500 Characters Maximum]
Grant funds will be used to hire local contractors to assist landowners to thin overstocked trees,
remove brush, prune lower live limbs, and dispose of slash. Participating landowners will be
required to contribute their own time or pay a portion of the work as described in a signed
landowner assistance form.
On favorable terrain, skid steers and masticating machines may be used. On steeper slopes, hand
crews will pile and burn or use chippers to dispose of slash. Project promotion and landowner
outreach will be conducted by Pend Orielle County LCG participants as in kind cost share.
Residential wildfire risk assessments and fire prevention education will be conducted in conjunction
with outreach. Project administration, environmental planning, overhead, benefits and monitoring
will be provided by DNR at no cost. This allows the maximum amount of grant funding to be used
for on-the-ground fuels reduction work. The costs shown in the budget are estimates derived from
work provided on lands adjacent to this proposal, from other similar projects administered and from
other contracts awarded by DNR.
The project is immediately adjacent to the USFS Misery and Hanlon fuels reduction projects. Grant
funding, combined with the federal fuels project, will maximize area treated and protection of the
community. The cost of the project compared to the potential benefits of having contiguous fuel
treatment in this strategic area is well justified.
Interagency Collaboration
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Specify the private, local, tribal, county, state, federal and/or non-governmental [501(c)(3)]
organizations that will contribute to or participate in the completion of this project. Describe
briefly the contributions each partner will make (i.e. – donating time/equipment, funding, etc.)
[500 Characters Maximum]
Landowners: fuel reduction implementation & 10 year maintainance
DNR: program administration & technical assistance
USFS: consultation & fuel reduction on adjacent federal land
WSU Extension: public outreach
Pend Orielle Co Fire District #2 & 5: project promotion, public education & public outreach
Pend Orielle Co Conservation District: consultation & landowner outreach
Pend Orielle Co Emergency Management: consultation & landowner outreach
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Project Longevity / Maintenance
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Clearly describe how the proposed treatments will be maintained over time. [500 Characters
Maximum]
A Landowner Assistance Form must be signed by the landowner before any fuels treatment can occur.
The form contains standard language requiring the practice be maintained for a minimum of ten years,
which is standard for all DNR NE Region administered grants. Random compliance checks will be
completed by Local Coordinating Group participants.
Biomass Utilization
All information for the project must fit into the space provided below. Attachments will not be considered by the review committee.
For the purpose of this application, biomass utilization is defined as any practicable end-use of the material that
has value, or the trading of capital for the woody material.
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Biomass from treatment(s) will be utilized. (check one)
yes
no
1) If yes, how is it planned to be used, or what is the end-result (wood products, steam/energy,
mulch etc.) [500 Characters Maximum]
This is a fuels reduction project. However, any merchantable products may be removed and hauled to
local mills, subject to prevailing market conditions. The most likely form of biomass removed would
be hew saw and chip wood.
2) Identify company or contractors involved in project utilization. [250 Characters Maximum]
Vaagen's Wood Products expresses an interest in smaller diameter material from fuels reduction
projects in NE Washington. Pend Oreille Valley Fiber purchases small diameter material and is
located about 20 miles from the project area.
3) Estimate anticipated value of biomass to be removed ($/Green Ton; $/Bone-dry Ton;
$/Hundred Cubic Feet (CCF), $/Acre Treated) [250 Characters Maximum]
Biomass removed is likely to be in the form of hew saw and chip wood material. Value will depend
on market conditions at the time of removal but prices are currently about $45.00 per ton, delivered.
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Project Budget
Cost Category
Description
Federal
Agency
Matching Share
Applicant
Landowners
Total
PO Co LCG
Personnel
$0.00
Administration
$0.00
Promotion/Outreach
Subtotal $0.00
$22,000.00
$0.00
$22,000.00
$0.00
$0.00
$0.00
$0.00
$7,500.00
$7,500.00
$22,000.00
$7,500.00
$29,500.00
$0.00
$0.00
Subtotal $0.00
$4,800.00
$0.00
$4,800.00
$0.00
$0.00
$0.00
$0.00
$0.00
$0.00
$4,800.00
$0.00
$4,800.00
$0.00
$0.00
Subtotal $0.00
$1,600.00
$3,100.00
$4,700.00
$0.00
$0.00
$0.00
$0.00
$1,500.00
$1,500.00
$1,600.00
$4,600.00
$6,200.00
$0.00
$0.00
Subtotal $0.00
$0.00
$0.00
$0.00
$0.00
$0.00
$0.00
$0.00
$0.00
$0.00
$0.00
$0.00
$0.00
$0.00
$0.00
Subtotal $0.00
$0.00
$0.00
$0.00
$5,000.00
$0.00
$5,000.00
$0.00
$0.00
$0.00
$5,000.00
$0.00
$5,000.00
$200,000.00
$0.00
Subtotal $200,000.00
$0.00
$0.00
$0.00
$77,500.00
$0.00
$77,500.00
$0.00
$0.00
$0.00
$277,500.00
$0.00
$277,500.00
$0.00
$0.00
Subtotal $0.00
$0.00
$0.00
$0.00
$77,500.00
$0.00
$77,500.00
$0.00
$0.00
$0.00
$77,500.00
$0.00
$77,500.00
Fringe Benefits
Indirect Costs
Travel
Per Diem
Vehicle
Equipment
Supplies
Fuel, Etc
Contractual
Fuels Reduction
Other
Labor
Total Costs
$200,000.00
$31,500.00
$160,000.00
$9,000.00
$400,500.00
Project (Program) Income1
(using deductive alternative)
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.
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