FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY
Project Application ID:
Funding Request:
Matching Share:
Total Project Cost:
2008-017
$200,000
$202,000
$402,000
NATIONAL FIRE PLAN WILDLAND-URBAN INTERFACE
COMMUNITY ASSISTANCE GRANT PROPOSAL
Applicant Information
1
Applicant/Organization Illinois Valley Community Response Team
Type of Applicant: Nonprofit Organization
Contact Person: Bob Schumacher
Address: PO Box 3043
City Cave Junction
State Oregon
Zip: 97523
Phone: 5415924440
Ext.
FAX: 5415924106
Call Ahead for FAX:
Phone (Work/Cell):
Email: robert@ivcdo.org
Project Information
2
Name of Project: South Illinois Valley
Proposed Start Date: 11/07
Proposed End Date:
City: O'Brien
State:
County: Josephine
Congressional District:
Latitude (decimal degrees): 42
Longitude (decimal degrees):
Please indicate planned treatments and associated acres
11/10
Oregon
4
-123
Total Actual Project Acres: 300
Treatment (1)
Acres Treatment (2)
Acres
Total Treatment Acres
Thinning
300
Hand Pile
200
Treatment (3)
Acres Treatment (4)
Acres
900
HandPile Burn
200
Brodcast Burn
0
Treatment (5)
Acres Treatment (6)
Acres
Cost Per Acre
Chipping
100
Biomass Removal
100
Treatment (other-A) Acres Treatment (other-B)
Acres
$ 446.67
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 JCIFP
Name of Community at O'Brien
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]
This is a Fuels, Utilization, and Marketing Project wherein a portion of federal, state and private
land will undergo fuels reduction treatments. This project will perpetuate recent labors of all
stakeholders in Josephine County by initiating a long term plan for forest health, and introduce local
markets for utilization in a community of high wildfire risk/hazard. Over half of Josephine County's
75,726 citizens live in high hazard/risk areas that are overstocked and choked with ladder fuels. The
community of Obrien, rich in natural and historical attributes, lies in the heart of the RogueSiskiyou National Forest and Medford District BLM. Community partner involvement includes the
community of Obrien, Illinois Valley Fire District, Josephine County, ODF, USFS, BLM, Nature
Conservancy, Siskiyou Field Institute, Rough and Ready, and several forest contractors.
This fuels reduction prescription is aimed at increasing resident safety, decreasing the potential of a
stand replacement fire, and providing marketable forest products for local entrepeneurs and their
customers. Ladder fuel vegetation will be handcut(300 acres), hand piled and burned (200 acres) for
the interior portion of individual units, and chipped, hauled, and utilized from the remainder (100
acres). Fire return intervals range from 5 to 100 years (Skinner, 1995), and vegetation is mainly mid
to late seral mixed conifer, with a thick understory of brush, choked saplings, and/or poles waiting
for release.
Project Timeline
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4
Provide a timeline for the project. [500 Characters Maximum]
Treatments will not exceed a period of three years after grant is awarded and funded, from unit
identification to completion. Treatments will be effective, on average, for 10 years; however,
landowners who actively maintain their land following this assistence can expect 15+ years. All
participating landowners agree to conduct reasonable future maintenance. Monitoring and
Maintenance will be ongoing, and is expeced to be at longer intervals over time due to the increase
in canopy closure.
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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]
As aforementioned, this fuels reduction prescription includes all hand-cutting (300 acres), hand
piling (200 acres), and hand pile burning (200 acres) for the interior portion of individual units. The
debris from the remaining portion of units will be chipped, hauled, and utilized locally (100 acres,
minimum). Specifically, funds will be used the following way(s):
Total
Defensible space around dwellings 100 ac. @ $1,200/ac. $120,000
Roadwork & Landscape
100 ac. @ $1,200/Ac. 120,000
Additional in-kind work
100 ac. @ $1,200/ac. 120,000
Grant
Landowner
$80,000 $40,000
90,000
30,000 (1)
0
120,000 (2)
(1) Material disposal provided by Rough & Ready Lumber Co.
(2) Prior experience has shown a willigness by some landowners to voluntarily treat their land
without reiembursement once the project is started.
Outcomes from this plan include: implementation of countywide fire plan (JCIFP), lessening the
intensity and spread of wildfire in the WUI, safe ingress/egress in an area of heavy fuel loading and
high wildfire frequency, innovative multi-party monitoring with active community engagement,
positive interaction between private landowners, local contractors and businesses, community
organizations, and local, state, and federal agencies and land managers.
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]
Local BLM ($2000 towards NEPA evaluations), Josephine County GIS (providing
maps/monitoring), Illinois Valley Fire District ($4000 in kind for outreach, photo inventory,
inspections, etc.), Nature Conservancy (roadside brushing/thinning planned), Siskiyou Field
Institute(monitoring), and Rough and Ready Lumber ($30,000 savings towards total cost/acre by
hauling/utilizing chips).
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Project Longevity / Maintenance
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Clearly describe how the proposed treatments will be maintained over time. [500 Characters
Maximum]
Much of the private forestland is residential in nature (5 - 10 acre lots). After initial treatment,
maintenance will be minimal. The majority of landowners prefer to maintain or nurture their forest by promoting overstory growth as opposed to overstory removal. Proposed cutting on conifers and
hardwoods will be no greater than 8" DBH. By maintaining or pruning towards a mature canopy
closure, shrubs will be less likely to re-establish, and maintenace intervals will be longer over time.
Biomass Utilization
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For the purpose of this application, biomass utilization is defined as any practicable end-use of the material that
has value, or the trading of capital for the woody material.
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Biomass from treatment(s) will be utilized. (check one)
yes
no
1) If yes, how is it planned to be used, or what is the end-result (wood products, steam/energy,
mulch etc.) [500 Characters Maximum]
Commercial wood products available for utilization:
posts and beams for pole structures, smaller poles for furniture and fencing, firewood, hog fuel for
local biomass boiler system.
2) Identify company or contractors involved in project utilization. [250 Characters Maximum]
Rough and Ready, Kauffman Wood Products
3) Estimate anticipated value of biomass to be removed ($/Green Ton; $/Bone-dry Ton;
$/Hundred Cubic Feet (CCF), $/Acre Treated) [250 Characters Maximum]
$15.00/Green Ton. There is really no monetary value assigned to the biomass. It does offset the cost
per acre for overall treatment. Portions of units that practice utilization will cost 25% less per acre.
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Project Budget
Cost Category
Description
Federal
Agency
Matching Share
Applicant
Landowners
Total
See item 6
Personnel
$0.00
$0.00
Subtotal $0.00
$2,500.00
$0.00
$2,500.00
$0.00
$0.00
$0.00
$0.00
$0.00
$0.00
$2,500.00
$0.00
$2,500.00
$0.00
$0.00
Subtotal $0.00
$500.00
$0.00
$500.00
$0.00
$0.00
$0.00
$0.00
$0.00
$0.00
$500.00
$0.00
$500.00
$0.00
$0.00
Subtotal $0.00
$200.00
$0.00
$200.00
$0.00
$0.00
$0.00
$0.00
$0.00
$0.00
$200.00
$0.00
$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
$400.00
$400.00
$800.00
$0.00
$0.00
$0.00
$1,000.00
$1,000.00
$2,000.00
$2,400.00
$2,400.00
$4,800.00
$0.00
$0.00
$0.00
$160,000.00
$0.00
$160,000.00
$30,000.00
$4,000.00
$34,000.00
$360,000.00
$16,000.00
$376,000.00
$0.00
$0.00
$0.00
$0.00
$0.00
$0.00
$0.00
$2,000.00
$2,000.00
$16,000.00
$2,000.00
$18,000.00
Fringe Benefits
Travel
Equipment
Supplies
$1,000.00
outreach,awareness
$1,000.00
photos,recognition signs
Subtotal $2,000.00
Contractual
$170,000.00
fuels reduction work
$12,000.00
assess,monitor,inspection
Subtotal $182,000.00
Other
adminidtrative
NEPA
$16,000.00
$0.00
Subtotal $16,000.00
Total Costs
$200,000.00
$4,000.00
$160,000.00
$38,000.00
$402,000.00
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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