ID Number 2007-105
Fuels Treatment Projects Application
NATIONAL FIRE PLAN COMMUNITY ASSISTANCE AND WILDLAND URBAN INTERFACE PROJECTS
Applicant
Applicant/Organization:
Washington State Department of Natural Resources
Type of Applicant:
A (State)
Email:
mark.gray@wadnr.gov
Phone:
360-902-1754
FAX:
360-902-1781
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Address (Street or P. O. Box, City, State, Zip):
1111 Washington Street SE PO Box 47037 Olympia, WA 98504-7037
Project Coordinator
Project Coordinator (Name and Title):
Mr. Chuck Johnson, Landowner Assistance Manager
Organization/Jurisdiction:
Washington Department of Natural Resources, Northeast Region
Email:
chuck,johnson@wadnr.gov
Phone:
509-684-7474
FAX:
509-684-7484
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Project Information
Project Title:
Havillah Community Fuels Reduction Project
Project Location:
Havillah
County:
Okanogan
Congressional District:
6
Latitude:
48.7991
Longitude:
-119.0493
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 within the Wildland
Urban Interface (WUI) of the Havillah CWPP. This project focuses on the private land in the community that was prioritized for fuels reduction. These
strategically located fuel breaks will modify fire behavior and intensity, thereby reducing risk to lives, homes, community infrastructure, crops and natural
resources. This will assist firefighters in fire suppression, reducing costs, and increasing firefighter safety. The Havillah CWPP identified mitigation and
action items that needed to be implemented in order to achieve the goals identified. Funding this project will help to accomplish those goals. The CWPP
process has increased community awareness and seed money from this proposal will help landowners continue to accomplish fuels reduction projects
throughout the CWPP area.
Name of CWPP:
Havillah
Name of Communit(y/ies) at Risk:
Havillah
Proposed Project Start Date:
06/01/2007
Proposed Project End Date:
11/30/2008
Federal Funding Request:
$200,000.00
Total Project Cost:
$690,000.00
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.
There are two fuels reduction proposals being submitted for Havillah. This one focuses on private land and the other focuses on State land. They are
collaborative proposals but are stand-alone.
Name of Federal, State or Tribal contact with whom you coordinated this proposal: Organization/Jurisdiction:
1) Mark Morris, District Ranger
Phone
USFS, Tonasket Ranger District
509-486-2186
2) Sharon Barton-wood, FMO
Phone
USFS, Tonasket Ranger District
509-486-2186
3) Tim Vugteveen, District Manager
Phone
Email mmorris@fs.fed.us
509-684-7474
Email sbartonwood@fs.fed.us
Washington State Department of Natural Resources
Email tim.vugteveen@wadnr.gov
Project Planning Information
Name of Local Coordinating Group:
Highlands Local Coordinating Group
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?
This proposal has been coordinated through the Highlands LCG and has very strong support.
List federal lands that are adjacent to the project and proximity.
USFS, Tonasket Ranger District
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
Thinning
Acres
200
Treatment
Mastication/Mowing
Acres
100
Treatment
Hand Pile
Acres
100
Treatment
Hand Pile Burn
Acres
100
If you have a treatment type other than standard types above:
Treatment
Pruning
Acres
200
Treatment
Ladder fuel Removal
Acres
200
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. It 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. Ownerships are intermixed. This project will be a coordinated effort
among many landowners to treat high priority hazardous fuels identified in the Havillah CWPP necessary to protect
the community.
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 thinning, pruning and fuel ladder removal will be piled, chipped and/or masticated on private
lands along main transportation routes, powerline corridors, and common property lines near homes in the community.
Creation of strategic fuel breaks within the identified WUI, especially in cooperation with existing and planned DNR
and USFS treatment projects, provides a treatment area that can effectively modify fire behavior by keeping fires on
the ground where they 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:
Most of the slash created by this project will be chipped and/or masticated. The slash that is piled 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 provide seed money to contribute to the local economy by providing jobs for local
contractors and local residents that wish to do the work themselves. 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:
Any merchantable products will be marketed. Some biomass removed from the site will be in the form of firewood,
much of which will be used to heat the 105 year-old community church. Some of the biomass may be used as
livestock bedding and/or chipped/shredded and spread on site for nutrient recycling. The community is open to any
biomass removal that Forest Concepts might propose.
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 local landowners with DNR and the
Forest Service to implement a strategy that meet the goals of the CWPP. This proposal will help to create fuel breaks
across ownerships and combine with planned, current and existing projects of the USFS, DNR and local landowners.
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 proposal will compliment the current and planned fuels projects of local landowners, DNR and USFS. Adjacent
private landowners are voluntarily treating over 465 acres as their match. Another 1,100 acres is anticipated in the
near future, on private lands alone. For this project DNR will provide the overhead and technical expertise at their
cost. All grant funding will go to work on the ground to complete the cooperative fuels break.
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 seed money to help continue the fuels reduction program in the community. Project
and environmental planning, overhead, benefits, and monitoring will be provided by DNR. This allows the maximum
amount of grant funding to be used for on-the-ground fuels reduction work by local contractors and landowners. 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 be adjacent to several USFS projects including the Two Lakes, Red Mill, and Buster Fuels reduction
activities. Private landowners in the project area are contributing the cost of over 465 acres of fuels reduction as inkind match. Over the next three years, an additional 1,100 acres is planned to be completed with both grant and inkind funding. Areas identified as needing treatment as part of this project represent very crucial 'pinch points' along
potential topographical or man-made control lines. The project will also protect critical infrastructure that contibutes
to the area economy. The cost of the project compared to the potential benefit of have contiguous fuel breaks in this
strategic area, across all ownerships, is well justified.
Project Work Form
Tasks
Time Frame
Responsible Party
Project Planning
February 2006 to June 2007
Acquire Funding
June 2007
DNR
June to July 2007
DNR
Environmental Review and RFP prep.
DNR and CWPP Committee
Project Implementation
July to December 2007
DNR, Contractors, Landowners, CWPP Committee
Monitoring and Project Reports
July to December 2007
DNR, Contractors, CWPP Committee
Project Implementation (if not completed in 2007)
May to November 2008
DNR, Contractors, Landowners, CWPP Committee
Project Budget
Havillah CWPP
Group
Cost Category
Description
Federal
Agency
Applicant
Partner 1
Partner 2
Partner 3
Total
Personnel
Administration
$0.00
$15,000.00
$1,500.00
$0.00
$0.00
$16,500.00
Environmental Review
$0.00
$1,000.00
$0.00
$0.00
$0.00
$1,000.00
$0.00
$16,000.00
$1,500.00
$0.00
$0.00
$17,500.00
$0.00
$3,000.00
$0.00
$0.00
$0.00
$3,000.00
$0.00
$0.00
$0.00
$0.00
$0.00
$0.00
$0.00
$3,000.00
$0.00
$0.00
$0.00
$3,000.00
$0.00
$1,500.00
$0.00
$0.00
$0.00
$1,500.00
$0.00
$0.00
$0.00
$0.00
$0.00
$0.00
$0.00
$1,500.00
$0.00
$0.00
$0.00
$1,500.00
$0.00
$1,000.00
$0.00
$0.00
$0.00
$1,000.00
$0.00
$0.00
$0.00
$0.00
$0.00
$0.00
$0.00
$1,000.00
$0.00
$0.00
$0.00
$1,000.00
$0.00
$500.00
$0.00
$0.00
$0.00
$500.00
$0.00
$0.00
$0.00
$0.00
$0.00
$0.00
$0.00
$500.00
$0.00
$0.00
$0.00
$500.00
$200,000.00
$0.00
$465,000.00
$0.00
$0.00
$665,000.00
$0.00
$0.00
$0.00
$0.00
$0.00
$0.00
$200,000.00
$0.00
$465,000.00
$0.00
$0.00
$665,000.00
Advertising
$0.00
$500.00
$0.00
$0.00
$0.00
$500.00
GIS Support
$0.00
$1,000.00
$0.00
$0.00
$0.00
$1,000.00
$0.00
$1,500.00
$0.00
$0.00
$0.00
$1,500.00
$200,000.00
$23,500.00
$466,500.00
$0.00
$0.00
$690,000.00
$0.00
$0.00
$0.00
$0.00
$0.00
$0.00
Subtotal
Fringe Benefits
Indirect Costs
Subtotal
Travel
Mileage and Per diem
Subtotal
Equipment
Laptop and GPS
Subtotal
Supplies
Prevention Materials
Subtotal
Contractual
Fuels Management
Subtotal
Other
Subtotal
Total Costs
Project (Program) Income 1
(using deductive alternative)
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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