FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY
Project Application ID:
Funding Request:
Matching Share:
Total Project Cost:
2008-019
$36,000
$38,800
$74,800
NATIONAL FIRE PLAN WILDLAND-URBAN INTERFACE
COMMUNITY ASSISTANCE GRANT PROPOSAL
Applicant Information
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Applicant/Organization Wa State Department of Natural Resources - NE Reg
Type of Applicant: State
Contact Person: Chuck Johnson, NFP Grant Coordinator
Address: .P.O. Box 190 Colville, WA 99114
City Colville
State Washington
Zip: 99114
Phone: 509-684-7474
Ext.
Call Ahead for FAX:
FAX: 0
Phone (Work/Cell): 509-995-7967
Email: chuck.johnson@dnr.wa.gov
Project Information
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Name of Project: Havillah CWPP - Highlands Cooperative Fuel Break
Proposed Start Date: 05/01/08
Proposed End Date:
City: Havillah
State:
County: Okanogan
Congressional District:
Latitude (decimal degrees): 48.79905
Longitude (decimal degrees):
Please indicate planned treatments and associated acres
11/15/09
Washington
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119.04931
Total Actual Project Acres: 1000
Treatment
Acres Treatment
Acres
Total Treatment Acres
Machine Pile
15
Hand Pile
110
Treatment
Acres Treatment
Acres
435
Machine Pile Burn
15
HandPile Burn
110
Treatment
Acres Treatment
Acres
Cost Per Acre
Brodcast Burn
75
Thinning
110
Treatment (other)
Acres Treatment (other)
Acres
$ 171.95
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 Okanogan County CWPP
Name of Community at Havillah
Risk:
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Project Area Description
All information for the project must fit into the space provided below. Attachments will not be considered by the review committee.
Provide a brief overview of the project and the project area. (If applying for a fuels reduction
project, identify vegetation types, fire regime.)
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The Project:
Project is designed to create fuel breaks in strategic locations that will modify wildland fire size,
intensity, and behavior; therefore reducing risk to lives, homes, cropland, and natural resources. The
created fuel break will assist firefighters in fire suppression, reduce suppression costs, and increase
firefighter safety. Havillah community members will build relationships through collaboration with
state and federal cooperators. The Havillah CWPP identified mitigation and action items that needed
to be implemented in order to achieve the goals identified. Creation of this project will help to
accomplish those goals. The CWPP process has increased community awareness and landowners
will continue to accomplish fuels reduction and defensible space projects throughout the CWPP
area.
The Project Area:
Havillah is a homestead community. The community contains many historical buildings, including a
church that is more than 100 years old. Sitzmark Ski Area, a small resort serves the area and the
Highlands Snow Park provides many miles of cross-country trails. The surrounding neighborhoods
are served by a network of power lines that pass through forested areas and across ownerships.
Bonaparte Resort is a year round resort that provides many recreation activities and income to the
area. Ownerships are intermixed. This project will be a coordinated effort among many landowners.
Fuels:
Project area is fire regime 3 condition class 2, ponderosa pine & doug fir.
Project Timeline
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Provide a timeline for the project.
Winter/Spring 2009: DNR Commercially harvest 90 acres to reduce stocking, remove ladder fuels,
to maintain a shaded fuel break.
Summer 2009: Machine pile slash created by timber sale.
Spring '09 - Spring '10: fuel reduction on 110 acers including power line corridor to Resort
Autumn '09 - '10 Burn piles on 125 acres of fuels treatment. Get Burn permits and pay fees.
Autumn '09 - '10 Control line construction, broadcast burning of slash within the shaded fuel break
create
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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)
Tasks requiring funding include: 1) 110 acres ladder fuels reduction, thinning; 2)110 acres hand
piling slash; 3) machine piling 15 acres; 4)burning piles 125 acres; 5) broadcast burning 75 acres.
Project, environmental planning, overhead, benefits, monitoring, & equipment needs provided by
the land manager (DNR). This allows maximum amount of grant funding used for on-the-ground
fuels reduction work by DNR workers. Amount of costs shown in the budget are from $/ac
estimates of contract work provided on USFS lands adjacent to this proposal, from other similar
grants administered, and from other thinning contracts awarded by the DNR. Project will tie in with
USFS projects including the Two Lakes, Red Mill, and Buster Fuels reduction activities. Private
landowners in the project area have completed 470 acres of fuels reduction since the CWPP was
approved. Over the next three years, an additional 1,100 acres is planned to be completed with grant
and in-kind funding. Areas identified as needing treatment as part of this project represent very
crucial 'pinch points' along potential topographical or man-made (roads)control lines. The project
will also protect important infrastructure contributing to the area economy. Cost of the project
compared to the potential benefit of have a contiguous fuel break in this strategic area across all
ownerships is well justified.
The project dovetails with NFP funded Havillah Community Stratigic WUI Fuels Reduction project
2006-131.
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.).
Project Cooperating Members are:
Highlands Fire Defense Team L.C.G.; Sinlahekin Wildlife Area, Wa. Dept. of Fish &Wildlife; WA
DNR Highlands District; Wenatchee/Okanogan National Forest; Okanogan CO Planning
Department; OK CO Emergency Services; Mount Toleman, BIA; Spokane BLM Wenatchee Field
Unit; OK FPD #12 Tonasket Fire; OK FPD #11 Chesaw/Molson Fire; Okanogan Fire Chief’s
Association;
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Project Longevity / Maintenance
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Clearly describe how the proposed treatments will be maintained over time.
As a land management agency DNR will moniter the project area over the course of time and conduct
periodic fuels maintenance as necessary.
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.)
Approximately 90 ac. of DNR managed, trust ownership within the WUI area will be commercially
harvested prior to fuels treatments. Volume removed may be approx. 450 mbf. Revenue generated
from this harvest is distributed into the K-12 Common School construction fund. No funding is
available for the treatment of the slash created by the commercial harvest. Coordinating the harvest
with the fuels treatment will provide for a fuel break that can be more efficiently and effectively
maintained.
2) Identify company or contractors involved in project utilization.
The commerical harvest of DNR timber in this project area will go out for bid. This process provides
opportunity for local contractors to participate in the project and generates a revenue source..
3) Estimate anticipated value of biomass to be removed ($/Green Ton; $/Bone-dry Ton;
$/Hundred Cubic Feet (CCF), $/Acre Treated).
$202,500.
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Project Budget
Cost Category
Description
Federal
Agency
Matching Share
Applicant
Partner 1
Total
Partner 2
Personnel
$35,000.00
Natural Resource Workers
$0.00
Overhead
Subtotal $35,000.00
$25,000.00
$3,000.00
$28,000.00
$0.00
$0.00
$0.00
$0.00
$0.00
$0.00
$60,000.00
$3,000.00
$63,000.00
$0.00
$0.00
Subtotal $0.00
$2,000.00
$0.00
$2,000.00
$0.00
$0.00
$0.00
$0.00
$0.00
$0.00
$2,000.00
$0.00
$2,000.00
$1,000.00
$0.00
Subtotal $1,000.00
$600.00
$0.00
$600.00
$0.00
$0.00
$0.00
$0.00
$0.00
$0.00
$1,600.00
$0.00
$1,600.00
$0.00
$0.00
Subtotal $0.00
$2,000.00
$0.00
$2,000.00
$0.00
$0.00
$0.00
$0.00
$0.00
$0.00
$2,000.00
$0.00
$2,000.00
$0.00
Misc. saw parts
$0.00
Office/Commun./Compu.
Subtotal $0.00
$200.00
$1,000.00
$1,200.00
$0.00
$0.00
$0.00
$0.00
$0.00
$0.00
$200.00
$1,000.00
$1,200.00
$0.00
$0.00
Subtotal $0.00
$0.00
$0.00
$0.00
$0.00
$0.00
$0.00
$0.00
$0
$0.00
$0.00
$0.00
$0.00
$0.00
$0.00
Subtotal $0.00
$5,000.00
$0.00
$5,000.00
$0.00
$0.00
$0.00
$0.00
$0.00
$0.00
$5,000.00
$0.00
$5,000.00
Fringe Benefits
benefits/Insurance
Travel
Milage
Equipment
Saws, GPS, Vehicles
Supplies
Contractual
Other
Enviro. Planning
Total Costs
$36,000.00
$38,800.00
$0.00
$0.00
$74,800.00
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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