ID Number 2007-32
Fuels Treatment Projects Application
NATIONAL FIRE PLAN COMMUNITY ASSISTANCE AND WILDLAND URBAN INTERFACE PROJECTS
Applicant
Applicant/Organization:
State of Oregon Department of Forestry/K-L District/Klamath
Type of Applicant:
A (State)
Email:
msmith@odf.state.or.us
Phone:
503-945-7416
FAX:
503-945-7416
Please Call Ahead for FAX:
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Address (Street or P. O. Box, City, State, Zip):
2600 State St. Salem, OR 97310
Project Coordinator
Project Coordinator (Name and Title):
Ms. Mary Helen Smith, Grant Coordinator/Dennis Lee, Field Coordinator
Organization/Jurisdiction:
Oregon Dept. of Forestry/K-L District/Klamath Unit
Email:
msmith@odf.state.or.us/dlee@odf.state.or.us
Phone:
503-945-7341
FAX:
503-945-7416
Please Call Ahead for FAX:
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Project Information
Project Title:
Rocky Point Fuels Treatment
Project Location:
Rocky Point, Oregon
County:
Klamath
Congressional District:
2
Latitude:
42.435
Longitude:
122.0878
State the desired outcome in relation to NFP Goals and the Community Wildfire Protection Plan (CWPP). Project Objectives:
Project will reduce the risk of wildland fire to the community of Rocky Point by providing vegetative management assistance to landowners and
homeowners in top priority areas defined by the Rocky Point Community Wildfire Protection Plan. This will be another step in the collaborative process that
has taken place in the Rocky Point area between local residents, local fire officials, state, and federal fire authorities to reduce hazardous fuels and promote
community wildfire awareness. The project will enhance completed and planned federal fuels mitigation projects by continuing hazardous fuels treatments
on private land adjacent to federal project(USFS Rocky Pt Community Fuels project). The intent of this plan will reduce fuels on a landscape level, block
management system through private ownership. It will create more defensible space for homeowners, reduce the risk of homes lost to wildfire and improve
firefighter safety and suppression effectiveness.
Name of CWPP:
Rocky Point Community Wildfire Protection Plan
Name of Communit(y/ies) at Risk:
Rocky Point
Proposed Project Start Date:
10/01/2007
Proposed Project End Date:
10/01/2009
Federal Funding Request:
$103,093.00
Total Project Cost:
$128,866.00
Are you submitting multiple projects?
Yes
If YES indicate the relationship of the projects to one
another:
If YES, please list the titles of projects by priority and briefly explain their relationship.
The State of Oregon will be submitting multiple applications
Name of Federal, State or Tribal contact with whom you coordinated this
proposal:
Organization/Jurisdiction:
1) Joy Augustine-FMO Klamath Ranger District
U.S. Forest Service
Phone
541-885-3400
2) Dave Goheen
Phone
Email jaugustine@fs.fed.us
U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service
530-667-2309
Email David_Goheen@fws.gov
3)
Phone
Email
S (Sequential)
Project Planning Information
Name of Local Coordinating Group:
Klamath County Local Coordinating Group (KCLCG)
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?
KCLCG is an active participant and will be given the opportunity to review and comment.
List federal lands that are adjacent to the project and proximity.
U.S. Forest Service lands with direct borders to project area
A) Is there a current hazardous fuels treatment or one that is planned in the next three years on federal land that is adjacent to this project?
Yes
B) Specifically is this project adjacent to a current prescribed burn project or one that is planned in the next three years on Forest Service lands?
Yes
Please indicate planned treatments and associated acres:
Treatment
Mastication/Mowing
Acres
100
Treatment
Thinning
Acres
50
Treatment
Hand Pile Burn
Acres
50
Treatment
Acres
Treatment
Acres
0
If you have a treatment type other than standard types above:
Acres
0
Treatment
Project Evaluation Criteria
Applications for funding must include narrative responses that address the following criteria. Be sure you address every one briefly, yet thoroughly.
1. Reducing Hazardous Fuels (40 points)
A. Describe the community infrastructure that will be protected. This should include how this project implements all or part of the CWPP strategy. (15
points)
Response:
The community has approx. 375 homes and structures. Three primary roads(Highway 140, Rocky Point Road and
West Side Road) serve as the transportation conduit and evacuation route for residents and visitors. Domestic wells
serve individual residents, and electricity is delivered via dispersed power transmission lines. The community
strategy for risk reduction, as noted in the CWPP, includes reducing the fuels build up around individual homes and
reduce fuel loading on private lands adjacent to public lands. This project will take place in the number one CWPP
priority treatment area.
B. Explain how the proposal reduces fire behavior in high hazard areas by describing the fuels to be disposed or removed, the techniques and timing of the
treatments, and the treatment location relative to the values to be protected. (15 points)
Response:
The vegetation surrounding Rocky Point is primarily a mixed conifer forest in Condition Class 2 and 3. The intent of
the project is to conduct hand and mechanical treatments of forest fuels in this condition reducing the risk of losing
key ecosystem components to fire and restoring the historical fire regime. Treatments will include both mechanical
and hand projects as well as pile burning extraction, depending on marketability. Treatments will be accomplished
primarily in the spring and fall, when the fire danger is minimal and as weather permits.
C. Explain how the project is designed to reduce smoke production impacts that affect public health. (10 points)
Response:
The Rocky Point area is in the Klamath County voluntary smoke management zone. Any burning of piles will be
completed on days that comply with smoke management requirements to ensure smoke dispersal and reduce the
impacts on public health. Landowners will be offered any usable material created from accomplished work, such as
whole logs or firewood, to reduce the overall biomass load.
2. Increasing Local Capacity (20 points)
A. How would the implementation of the proposed project improve or lead to the improvement of the local economy in terms of jobs and sustainable
economic activity assuming that these grant funds would be used as "seed monies" for future projects. i.e. How many community supported jobs would be
created and for how long would they expect to last? (10 points)
Response:
This proposal includes funding for six locally hired people for six months to complete hand work in the project area.
Mechanized fuel reductions, such as slashbuster mastication, will be contracted to local vendors. Both aspects will
improve the local economy by the creation of jobs and trade experience gained.
B. Will biomass that is produced by the project be utilized; if so, in what manner and how much? (10 points)
Response:
This project will continue to look for biomass utilization options as the project progresses and will take advantage of
options that may become available in the future. Materials created from fuels reduction, such as firewood, post and
poles, or chipping materials for compost will be encouraged as alternatives to pile burning. The distance to the nearest
biomass plant (Medford) is just out of range to be economically feasible for full biomass utilization.
3. Demonstrating Community and Intergovernmental Collaboration (20 Points)
A. Describe how this project has been collaborated and coordinated with adjacent landowners, local/state/Tribal/federal agencies, and community groups
such as neighborhood associations. (10 points)
Response:
ODF and U.S. Forest Service have been working together in this area to accomplish fuel treatments over several years.
The Rocky Point Community Action Team, Harriman Rural Fire Department, and state and federal agencies have
been instrumental in CWPP development and fuels treatment prioritization. This project will implement the priority
treatments outlined by the CWPP. ODF is currently working on a collaborative effort with industrial landowners in the
area to reduce fuel loads on their land.
B. Describe the communities/partners contributions to this project such as: cash or in-kind contributions, cost share agreements, equipment, or labor
(including volunteer work). (10 points)
Response:
There will be volunteer contributions by the Harriman Rural Fire Department and Rocky Point Community Action
Team. These entities will assist in public meeting formulation and marketing of fuels treatment options to local
residents. Harriman RFD will act as a hub and meeting location for public events. Cost share agreements will be made
with landowners who wish for treatment to take place on their property. ODF will supply the equipment necessary for
completion of handwork (i.e. chainsaws).
4. Managing Cost Efficiency (20 points)
Discuss the process you used to arrive at your cost structure for the main Project Budget areas such as personnel, equipment, supplies and other (i.e.
overhead). In your response please justify: cost per acre, purchase of equipment, percent of overhead, percent of partner or matching funds, and portion of
administration cost. (20 points)
Response:
Using historical data from past landowner cost share agreements and fuels work completed by ODF personnel,it was
determined that costs per acre average out to roughly $700/acre (this includes thinning and slash treatment). The OPE
cost average about 50% based on State budgeting guidelines. Slashbuster costs are $400/acre, multiplied by 100 acres
gives the amount for contracted services. Travel is linked to estimated mileage (3,200) for vehicle use in the field at
$1.25 per mile. Supplies include the administrative supplies for monitoring, maintenance and presentations. Salem
administration will account for 3% of the overall project budget.
Project Work Form
Time Frame
Responsible Party
Identify specific landowners, direct mail the grant
information, organize and present information at
community outreach meeting.
Tasks
10/1/2007-12/1/2007
Oregon Dept. of Forestry, Harriman Rural Fire
Protection District, Rocky Point Community Action
Team
Sign up landowners in the program, arrange and
complete site visit/hazard assessment
12/1/2007-12/1/2008
Oregon Dept. of Forestry
Complete handwork on landowner properties that
have signed into an agreement.
4/1/2008-10/1/2009
Oregon Dept. of Forestry, Individual landowners.
Complete contracted mechanized treatments on
landowner properties that have signed into an
agreement
4/1/2008-10/1/2009
Oregon Dept. of Forestry, Contacted Partners
Work with industrial landowners to identify fuel
hazards and treatment options on lands in or near
priority areas
Monitor work projects, document activities and
accomplishments
On-going
Oregon Dept. of Forestry
10/1/2007-10/1/2009
Oregon Dept. of Forestry
Work in partnership with cooperators, public, and
federal entities. Facilitate information sharing
On-going
Oregon Dept. of Forestry, US Forest Service, Rocky
Point CAT, Harriman RFPD, US Fish and Wildlife
Service, Klamath Tribes, Industrial Owners
Monitor and evaluate project effectiveness and
continued landowner compliance
On-going
Oregon Dept. of Forestry, Harriman RFPD, Rocky
Point CAT
Project Budget
Cost Category
Description
Federal
Agency
Applicant
Partner 1
Partner 2
Partner 3
Total
Personnel
ODF personnel
Subtotal
$36,000.00
$25,773.00
$0.00
$0.00
$0.00
$61,773.00
$0.00
$0.00
$0.00
$0.00
$0.00
$0.00
$36,000.00
$25,773.00
$0.00
$0.00
$0.00
$61,773.00
$18,000.00
$0.00
$0.00
$0.00
$0.00
$18,000.00
$0.00
$0.00
$0.00
$0.00
$0.00
$0.00
$18,000.00
$0.00
$0.00
$0.00
$0.00
$18,000.00
$4,000.00
$0.00
$0.00
$0.00
$0.00
$4,000.00
$0.00
$0.00
$0.00
$0.00
$0.00
$0.00
$4,000.00
$0.00
$0.00
$0.00
$0.00
$4,000.00
$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
$0.00
$0.00
$0.00
$0.00
$2,000.00
$0.00
$0.00
$0.00
$0.00
$2,000.00
$0.00
$0.00
$0.00
$0.00
$0.00
$0.00
$2,000.00
$0.00
$0.00
$0.00
$0.00
$2,000.00
$40,000.00
$0.00
$0.00
$0.00
$0.00
$40,000.00
$0.00
$0.00
$0.00
$0.00
$0.00
$0.00
$40,000.00
$0.00
$0.00
$0.00
$0.00
$40,000.00
$3,093.00
$0.00
$0.00
$0.00
$0.00
$3,093.00
$0.00
$0.00
$0.00
$0.00
$0.00
$0.00
$3,093.00
$0.00
$0.00
$0.00
$0.00
$3,093.00
$103,093.00
$25,773.00
$0.00
$0.00
$0.00
$128,866.00
$0.00
$0.00
$0.00
$0.00
$0.00
$0.00
Fringe Benefits
OPE 50%
Subtotal
Travel
Vehicle use
Subtotal
Equipment
Subtotal
Supplies
Office and Field supplies
Subtotal
Contractual
Slashbuster
Subtotal
Other
Salem Admin (3%)
Subtotal
Total Costs
Project (Program) Income 1
(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.