ID Number 2007-73
Fuels Treatment Projects Application
NATIONAL FIRE PLAN COMMUNITY ASSISTANCE AND WILDLAND URBAN INTERFACE PROJECTS
Applicant
Applicant/Organization:
Wa State Department of Natural Resources - NE Region
Type of Applicant:
A (State)
Email:
tim.vugtveeen@wadnr.gov
Phone:
509-684-7474
FAX:
509-223-3037
Please Call Ahead for FAX:
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Address (Street or P. O. Box, City, State, Zip):
P.O. Box 190 Colville, WA 99114
Project Coordinator
Project Coordinator (Name and Title):
Chuck Johnson, NFP Grant Coordinator
Organization/Jurisdiction:
WA Sate Department of Natural Resources, NE Region
Email:
chuck.johnson@wadnr.gov
Phone:
509-684-7474
FAX:
Project Information
Project Title:
Havillah CWPP - Highlands Cooperative Fuel Break
Project Location:
Havillah Community WUI
County:
Okanogan
Congressional District:
6
Latitude:
48.79905
Longitude:
119.04931
State the desired outcome in relation to NFP Goals and the Community Wildfire Protection Plan (CWPP). Project Objectives:
The desired outcome of this project is a coordinated effort of fuels reduction across ownerships including private, state, and federal lands withiin the
Wildland Urban Interface (WUI). Projects are coordinated and prioritized within the LCG to create fuel breaks in strategic locations that will modify 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 costs, and increase firefighter safety. Havillah community memebers 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.
Name of CWPP:
Havillah Community Wildfire Protection Plan (CWPP)
Name of Communit(y/ies) at Risk:
Havillah, Bonaparte Resort, Squattersville
Proposed Project Start Date:
05/01/2007
Proposed Project End Date:
11/15/2008
Federal Funding Request:
$54,484.00
Total Project Cost:
$81,445.00
Are you submitting multiple projects?
Yes
If YES indicate the relationship of the projects to one
another:
A (Stand Alone)
If YES, please list the titles of projects by priority and briefly explain their relationship.
Although this is a stand alone project proposal on state managed lands; it will tie together other implementation projects along the northwest flank of the
Bonaparte Maountain block of the Okanogan National Forest. Forest stands within the USFS ownership are experiencing a very high level of mortality, have
poor access, and pose a significant risk to adjacent state and private lands. Combining efforts with the private landoowners will provide a continuous fuel
break along this flank.
Name of Federal, State or Tribal contact with whom you coordinated this proposal: Organization/Jurisdiction:
Okanogan/Wenatchee National Forest
1) Sharon Barton-Wood - FMO
Phone
509-486-2186
Email sbartonwood@fs.fed.us
2) Chuck Johnson - Grants Specialist
WA State Dept. of Natural Resources
Phone
Email chuck.johnson@wadnr.gov
509-684-7474
3) Nick Christoph - Natural Resource Planner
Phone
509-422-7120
Okanogan County Planning Department
Email nchristoph@co.okanogan.wa.us
Project Planning Information
Name of Local Coordinating Group:
Highlands Fire Defense Local Coordinating Group (HFDLCG)
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?
Project was designed incoordination with the Havillah CWPP and HFDLCG.
List federal lands that are adjacent to the project and proximity.
Okanogan/Wenatchee NF - immediately adjacent (i.e. touching)
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
Machine Pile
Acres
15
Treatment
Hand Pile
Acres
180
Treatment
Machine Pile Burn
Acres
15
Treatment
Hand Pile Burn
Acres
180
Treatment
Ladder Fuel Reduct
Acres
180
If you have a treatment type other than standard types above:
Treatment
Broadcast Burn
Acres
75
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:
Havillah is a homestead community. The community itself contains many historical buildings, including a church
that is more than 100 years old. Sitzmark Ski Area, a one chair lift 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. Bonparte 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.
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 slash created by harvest, thinning, and pruning will be piled by hand and machine on DNR land along main
transportation routes, powerline corridors, and common property lines near homes in the CWPP area. All fuels
created, other than commercial logs, will be piled and burned. Creation of a strategic fuel break within the identified
WUI, especially in cooperation with existing and planned USFS treatment projects provides a treatment area that can
effectively modify fire behavior by bringing it out of the crowns and on to the ground where it can safely and
effectively be controlled.
C. Explain how the project is designed to reduce smoke production impacts that affect public health. (10 points)
Response:
All slash burning that will occur because of the fuels reduction completed with this project will adhere to the state's
Smoke Management Program. The slash will be allowed to cure for one season prior to burning. Piles will be free of
non-combustable debris and dirt. Permits will be obtained and conditions followed. Smoke management approval may
be necessary. Contacts with law enforcement and adjacent landowners will be made. Pile and broadcast burning will
occur when conditions are such that the risk of escape is low. Resources will be available for immediate suppression if
necessary.
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:
Implementation of the proposal will contribute to the local economy by providing harvesting jobs. Local seasonal
DNR employees will have their employment extended to accomplish the fuels treatments. Local ranchers and farmers
will be better protected from catastrophic loss of their crops as a result of wildfire. Recreation in the area can be
maintained and enhanced. Businesses in the area such as Bonaparte Resort and Sitzmark Ski area can have a reliable
source of power with lines protected.
B. Will biomass that is produced by the project be utilized; if so, in what manner and how much? (10 points)
Response:
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.
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:
The Havillah CWPP was completed as a collaborative process, advocated by local community members and groups.
Working within the LCG, the community continues to coordinate the efforts of all landowners, local/state/federal
agencies, and community groups in order to implement a strategy to meet the goals of the CWPP. This project will
help to create a continuous fuel break that goes across ownerships and that combines projects already completed
and/or planned by the USFS, locals, and DNR.
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:
This fuel break will compliment several landowner, DNR, and USFS treatment projects in the vicinity. Landowners
have already voluntarily treated over 465 acres and another 1,100 is anticipated in the near future. For this project
DNR will provide the overhead and technical expertise at their own cost. All grant funding will go to work on the
ground to complete the cooperative fuels break. DNR currently has the equipment and support structure to efficiently
and effectively complete the project.
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:
Tasks requiring funding include: 1) 180 acres of ladder fuels reduction and thinning; 2)180 acres of hand piling of
slash; 3) machine piling of 15 acres; 4)burning of piles on 125 acres; and 5) broadcast burning of 75 acres. Project and
environmental planning, overhead, benefits, monitoring, and equipment needs will be provided by the land manager
(DNR). This allows the maximum amount of grant funding to be used for on-the-ground fuels reduction work by
Natural resource workers. The 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. This 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 also completed nearly 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 identied 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 that contibutes to the area econmony. The cost of the project compared to the potential benefit of having
a contiguous fuel break in this strategic area across all ownerships is well justified.
Project Work Form
Tasks
Time Frame
Responsible Party
Commercially harvest 90 acres to reduce stocking,
remove ladder fuels, to maintain a shaded fuel
break. DNR land within 500' of the USFS 33 Rd.
Winter/Spring 2007
DNR. Timber will be auctioned to highest bidder.
Purchaser of timber may contract out the actual
harvest. No funding needed.
Machine pile 15 ac slash created by timber sale
along the USFS 33 rd. Use excavator to effectively
gather slash.
Summer 2007
Contractor. DNR will write and administer contract
at it's own cost. Contractor will be paid with grant
money.
Ladder fuel reduction and thinning on 180 ac.
Below the 33 Rd. along the Meyers Ck RMZ and
along 32 Rd including power line corridor to Resort.
Spring '07 - Spring '08
DNR. Using grant funding, DNR employees will be
extended to provide the labor for tasks. Overhead
and support provided by the DNR at it own
expense.
Handpile thinning and ladder fuels on 180 ac.
Below the 33 Rd. along the Meyers Ck RMZ and
along 32 Rd including power line corridor to Resort.
Spring '07 - Spring '08
DNR. Using grant funding, DNR employees will be
extended to provide the labor for tasks. Overhead
and support provided by the DNR at it own
expense.
Burn handpiles and machine piles within the 195
acres of fuels treatment. Get Burn permits and pay
fees. Burn all in RMZ and power line corridor.
Fall 2007 and Fall 2008
DNR. Using grant funding, DNR employees will be
extended to provide the labor for tasks. Overhead
and support provided by the DNR at it own
expense.
Control line construction, burn permit fees, and
broadcast burning of slash above the 33 Rd within
the shaded fuel break created with timber harvest.
Fall 2007 or Fall 2008
DNR. Using grant funding, DNR employees will be
extended to provide the labor for tasks. Overhead
and support provided by the DNR at it own
expense.
Project Budget
Cost Category
Description
Federal
Agency
Applicant
Partner 1
Partner 2
Partner 3
Total
Personnel
$53,250.00
$12,300.00
$0.00
$0.00
$0.00
$65,550.00
$0.00
$3,000.00
$0.00
$0.00
$0.00
$3,000.00
$53,250.00
$15,300.00
$0.00
$0.00
$0.00
$68,550.00
$0.00
$1,950.00
$0.00
$0.00
$0.00
$1,950.00
$0.00
$0.00
$0.00
$0.00
$0.00
$0.00
$0.00
$1,950.00
$0.00
$0.00
$0.00
$1,950.00
$1,235.00
$640.00
$0.00
$0.00
$0.00
$1,875.00
$0.00
$0.00
$0.00
$0.00
$0.00
$0.00
$1,235.00
$640.00
$0.00
$0.00
$0.00
$1,875.00
$0.00
$2,200.00
$0.00
$0.00
$0.00
$2,200.00
$0.00
$0.00
$0.00
$0.00
$0.00
$0.00
$0.00
$2,200.00
$0.00
$0.00
$0.00
$2,200.00
Misc. saw parts
$0.00
$200.00
$0.00
$0.00
$0.00
$200.00
Office/Commun./Compu.
$0.00
$1,320.00
$0.00
$0.00
$0.00
$1,320.00
$0.00
$1,520.00
$0.00
$0.00
$0.00
$1,520.00
$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
$0.00
$5,350.00
$0.00
$0.00
$0.00
$5,350.00
$0.00
$0.00
$0.00
$0.00
$0.00
$0.00
$0.00
$5,350.00
$0.00
$0.00
$0.00
$5,350.00
$54,485.00
$26,960.00
$0.00
$0.00
$0.00
$81,445.00
$0.00
$0.00
$0.00
$0.00
$0.00
$0.00
Natural Resource Workers
Overhead
Subtotal
Fringe Benefits
Benefits/Insurance
Subtotal
Travel
Mileage
Subtotal
Equipment
Saws, GPS, Vehicles
Subtotal
Supplies
Subtotal
Contractual
Subtotal
Other
Enviro. Planning
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.