Project Summary Form
Id Number 2006-026
NATIONAL FIRE PLAN COMMUNITY ASSISTANCE AND WILDLAND URBAN-INTERFACE PROJECTS
Application for Fuels Treatment Projects
Applicant
Applicant/Organization:
Keno Rural Fire Protection District
Phone: (111 111-1111 x 1111)
Type of Applicant: (enter appropriate letter in box)
G
541-883-3062
FAX: (111 111-1111 x 1111)
A. State
B. County
C. Municipal
D. Township
E. Interstate
541-884-5844
Please Call Ahead For FAX
H. Independent School District
I. State-Controlled Institution of Higher Learning
J. Private University
K. Indian Tribe
L. Nonprofit Organization
Address (Street or P. O. Box, City, State, Zip):
PO Box 10 14800 Puckett RD Keno, OR 97627
Project Coordinator
Project Coordinator (Name and Title):
John Ketchum Fire Chief
Organization/Jurisdiction:
Keno Rural Fire Protection District
Phone: (111 111-1111 x 1111)
541-883-3062
FAX: (111 111-1111 x 1111)
541-883-5844
Call Ahead For FAX
Email:
firechief@kenofire.com
Project Information
Project Title:
Keno Fuels Treatment Project
Proposed Project Start Date:
10/01/2005
Federal Funding Request:
$ 153,920
Proposed Project End Date:
09/30/2006
Total Project Funding:
$
186,992
Are you submitting multiple projects? If so, please explain and prioritize:
Yes. This project is sequential; it is to continue an on-going fuels treatment program. Fuels treatment activity commenced in 2002 and has
continued each year as supporting grant monies have been secured. Additional coordination is taking place for the Lakewoods Village
development surrounded by Fremont-Winema National Forest land. This development was annexed into the Keno Rural Fire Protection
District and will host a station, equipment and volunteer personnel.
Brief Project Summary: Who, What, Where, Desired Outcomes in relation to NFP Goals and Community Risk Assessment and
Mitigation Plans (This should summarize page 2).
This project is continuing hand and mechanical fuels reduction work being performed by employees of the Keno Rural Fire Protection District and
contractors. The work is being done on private property to lower fire behavior potentials to more readily managed levels. Treatment locations are
being prioritized based on strategic planning for contiguous areas of lowered fire behavior potential. The project objective is to create tactical
opportunities by connecting many small treatment areas. Maintenance of the treatment areas into the future will be addressed in an on-going
management plan funded by another source. Values at risk include about 2000 structures, mostly residential, in a rural wooded setting.
Project Location:
Latitude: 42.17547
Longitude: 121.972
County:
Klamath
Name of Federal, State or Tribal contact with whom you coordinated this proposal:
Federal Congressional District:
2
Telephone number of Contact:
Dave Goheen, USFWS
530-667-2231 Ext.
Joe Foran, BLM
541-885-4117 Ext.
Joy Augustine, USFS
541-885-3410 Ext.
Project Narrative Description
Applications for funding must include a narrative response that describes the proposal. Please do not submit responses
longer than one page, single space, 12-pitch font.
Describe project including, but not limited to:
x project relationship to the community risk assessment and
x project location (e.g., Watershed,
Address
mitigation plan
neighboring community)
these items
as applicable: x anticipated outcomes
x amount or extent of actions (acres, number of homes, etc.)
x project timeline and matching or contributed funds
x community partners and their
role(s)
x proponent’s ability to complete project
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/planning cooperators include: USFWS, BLM, USFS and ODF.
Is this project adjacent to a current prescribed burn project on federal lands or to one that is planned within the next
three years? (Yes/No) Yes
Please indicate planned treatments and associated acres:
* Treatment Thinning
Acres 200
Treatment Mastication/Mowing
Acres 50
Treatment Hand Piling
Acres 175
Treatment Hand Pile Burning
Acres 175
If you have a treatment type other than standard types above:
Other 1 chipping
Acres 25
Other 2
Acres 0
Project location: Fuels reduction work will be accomplished in the 44 square-mile Keno Rural Fire Protection District [KRFPD] in and adjacent to
Keno. The community of Keno is a rural community surrounded by public and private forest land. Keno is located on the Klamath River, southwest
of Klamath Falls, OR. Keno, which has been identified in the Federal Register as a community at risk, is located within 1.5 miles of a National
Wildlife Refuge. The species composition of the forest is predominantly Ponderosa pine, with Douglas-fir and western juniper and associated brush
and grass. The fire district bounds directly with the Bear Valley project of U.S. Fish and Wildlife. A mountain subdivision, Lakewoods, is completely
surrounded by Fremont-Winema National Forest land. This subdivision has been annexed into the Keno Rural Fire Protection District.
Anticipated outcomes: Continue fuels reduction treatments on a priority basis to meet the objective of reducing overall fire behavior potential
throughout the fire district. Properties for treatment will be prioritized by the Keno Fire Chief based on fuel loading, arrangement and alignment with
other hazardous fuel pockets. A strategic philosophy drives the prioritization of treatment sites. By connecting numerous small landowner parcels
that have had fuels reduction work completed, the project goal is to generate larger zones of tactical success opportunity.
Community Partners and their roles: Planning was initiated between the Keno Fire Protection District and personnel from the U.S. Forest Service,
U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, Bureau of Land Management, Klamath County and the Oregon Department of Forestry. KRFPD has coordinated
fuels treatments with adjacent U.S. Fish and Wildlife projects and has extended the treatments across property boundaries. These cross-boundary
project areas have increased treatment acres to the benefit of the federal and private landowners.
Project relationship to the community risk and mitigation plan: The KRFPD has obtained Title III grant monies to develop a community risk
assessment and mitigation plan. This plan is in progress via contracted services and will result in a long-term fuels management plan for the fire
district to maintain the effectiveness of hazard fuel treatments into the future.
Extent of actions: Since 2002 334 home sites have been treated resulting in 573 acres of hazardous fuels reduced to a low fire spread potential.
The planned treatments and acres above total 250 acres. That is the 200 acres to be thinned will have 175 acres of hand piling and burning, and 25
acres of chipping. The 50 acres of mastication/mowing will be done by a "Slashbuster".
Project timeline and matching or contributed funds: If funded, this project would be accomplished during the 2006 field season. As a cost-share
resource the KRFPD would provide a wildland engine and personnel to assist other agencies in fire suppression efforts.
Proponent's ability to complete project: The KRFPD has made steady progress in 2002, 2003 and 2004 with available funds. Personnel and
equipment have been added to the department to accomplish completed work. Continued funding will support continued accomplishment in this
proven fuels treatment program.
Project Evaluation Criteria
Applications for funding must include narrative responses that address the following three criteria. Be sure you address every one
briefly, yet thoroughly. Limit your responses to the area provided.
1. Reducing Hazardous Fuels (50 points)
A. Describe the community infrastructure that will be protected.
B. Explain how the proposal reduces fire behavior in high hazard areas by describing the fuels to be disposed or
removed, and the techniques and timing of the treatments.
C. How will the proposed treatments be maintained in future years?
D. How will you use multi-party monitoring to improve this and future projects?
Response:
A. The community of Keno is a rural community located in a fire-dependent Ponderosa pine ecosystem. Keno is located in southcentral Oregon, a region of high annual wildfire occurrence from natural and human ignitions. Succession of associated tree and
brush species has developed to a stocking level and condition class that can readily support high intensity wildfires. A fuel
condition class of 2 and 3 exists throughout the district. This hazard is exacerbated by the presence of over 2000 homes, related
structures and property. The population of the Keno Rural Fire Protection District increases annually. New housing starts have
increased in recent years.
B. The focus of the fuels reduction work in this project has been to strategically identify the sites of highest priority [highest hazard]
and reduce the fuel loading and arrangement on those parcels. Adjacent parcels of high hazard fuels were identified for treatment
to connect the treatment acres into larger blocks of reduced fire hazard. The project priority has been to treat logical locations that
create future tactical opportunities, while moving toward more treatment acres in the future.
The overall objective of reducing the potential for crown fire behavior is met by three steps. First, the surface fuel model is reduced
by machine or hand by removing decadent brush and stocking density. Second, passive crown fire potential is reduced by limbing
of leave trees. Third, active crown fire potential is reduced by thinning. Property inventory data focuses on fuel within 30 feet of
structures, then the zone from 30 to 100 feet, then beyond. This approach follows current research documentation on structure
protection in wildland fire scenarios.
C. The long term goal is to maintain the effectiveness of the current treatment investments and enable lower cost maintenance
treatments into the future that are affordable to the fire district with little or no supplemental grant funds. Project accomplishment
has moved the vegetation to a state that would promote a healthy, vigorous vegetative community. Stocking level has been
reduced through thinning, ladder fuels reduced by pruning, and surface fuel loading and continuity reduced by hand piling, chipping
and burning of hand piles and fuel concentrations. The result is a forest plant community that is much more likely to survive a
wildfire event while reducing the ultimate threat to people, property and natural resources.
D. Coordination with U.S. Fish and Wildlife fire managers continues to guide monitoring. This project shares boundary with the
Bear Valley USFWS fuels management project. BLM fuels treatments were done in parcels within the Keno Rural Fire Protection
District. Future projects with the USFS at the Lakewoods Village subdivision are in the intial planning phase. Thus, monitoring will
be done with USFWS, BLM and USFS fire and resource personnel.
Project Evaluation Criteria
2.
Increasing Local Capacity (25 points)
A. How would the proposal improve or lead to the improvement of the local economy in terms of jobs and
sustainable economic activity?
B. How many jobs are expected to be created or retained and for how long? (Please distinguish between
essentially year-round and seasonal jobs).
C. What tools and skills will be gained or utilized as a result of this project?
D. Will biomass be utilized; if so, in what manner and how much?
Response:
This project will lead to improvement of the local economy by continuing to offer work opportunities for a growing number of local
contractors engaged in fuels reduction activities. The contract "Slashbuster" work employed local contractors. Local public support of
the project has resulted in more landowners participating.
The KRFPD employed a 5-6 person fuels crew [3-4 effective/day] through the 2004 field season. These seasonal employees gained
skills in fuels reduction work with chain saws, pruning saws, and a chipper. Professional sawyers administered training for the crew.
This crew also received wildland fire training and responded to wildland fires and other public assistance calls. These job skills have
prepared these employees to better compete for permanent fire employment.
Although the material being removed from the fuels profile is not of merchantable value, any opportunity to utilize biomass would be
considered. Landowners seeking such an option would be directed to local industrial utilization opportunities via Oregon Department
of Forestry foresters.
3.
Demonstrating Community and Intergovernmental Collaboration (25 Points)
A. How will this project implement a community risk assessment and mitigation plan? Include name of plan, date
it was prepared, and local contact to get a copy of the plan if requested.
B. How has this treatment been coordinated with adjacent landowners and local/State/Tribal/Federal agencies?
C. Identify the cooperators/partners involved in implementation of this project.
D. Describe the extent of current local support for the project, including any cost-sharing agreements.
Response:
A. The KRFPD has contracted the development of a risk assessment and mitigation plan. This plan is in-progress and expected to
be completed in 2005. Information about this plan can be acquired from John Ketchum, Fire Chief, KRFPD. Past, current and
future project work in fuels reduction has been guided by the concepts that will be the basis of this plan.
B. The fuels treatments have been coordinated with the adjacent Federal landowners: the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service and the
Bureau of Land Managment. These agencies have implemented fuels reduction projects adjacent to or within the fire district.
Arrangements were made to utilize equipment under contract to that agency on private land across the boundary saving move-in
costs to the department. Local and Regional personnel from the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service have actively supported and visited
the project sites. Planning efforts have been initiated for the newly annexed Lakewoods Village development with the US Forest
Service.
C. The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service has been involved with this project since the start. The chief was invited to the Region 1
FWS FMO meeting in 2003 to present this project as an example of a successful WUI effort. This project was featured in several
federal WUI publications. The Keno fuels project received recognition as "honorable mention" in the 2004 WUI awards.
D. As more acres have been treated the local support for the project has grown. Many citizens have contacted the Chief to inquire
about acquiring fuels treatment on their property after viewing the results of completed work sites. Constituent support for the fire
district has never been higher. Cost-sharing efforts are in the planning stages for the newly annexed Lakewoods mountain
subdivision.
Project Work Form
Tasks
Time Frame
Continued Fuels Treatments: establish list of
properties to treat in FY 06.
Maintain text and photo-documentation of
fuels reduction activities for use in public
education and project documentation.
Continue and improve monitoring and
collaboration with other county, state and
federal agencies.
Responsible Party
FY 05
KRFPD Fire Chief
and
KRFPD Wildland Fuels Specialist
FY 05 and FY 06
KRFPD Fire Chief
and
KRFPD Wildland Fuels Specialist
KRFPD Fire Chief
FY 05 and FY 06
Maintain contact and education opportunities
with the public.
FY 05 and FY 06
KRFPD Fire Chief
and
KRFPD Wildland Fuels Specialist
Project Budget
Cost Category
Description
Federal
Agency
Applicant
Partner 1
Partner 2
Total
Partner 3
Personnel
Keno RFPD
$78,000
$0
$0
$0
$0
$0
$0
$0
$0
$0
$0
$78,000
$0
$0
$0
$78,000
$0
$0
$15,600
$0
Subtotal
$78,000
Fringe Benefits
Keno RFPD OPE 20%
$0
$15,600
$0
$0
$0
$15,600
$0
$0
$0
$0
$0
$0
$0
$0
$15,600
$0
$0
$0
$0
$0
$0
$0
$0
$0
$0
$0
$0
$0
$0
$0
$0
$0
$0
$15,600
$29,952
$0
$0
$45,552
$0
$10,400
$0
$0
$0
$10,400
$0
$26,000
$29,952
$0
$0
$55,952
$0
$2,080
$0
$0
$0
$2,080
$0
$0
$0
$0
$0
$0
$0
$2,080
$0
$0
$0
$2,080
Slashbuster/Contractors
$0
$28,080
$3,120
$0
$0
$31,200
Landowner cost share
$0
$4,160
$32,240
$0
$0
$0
$4,160
$0
$3,120
$0
$0
$35,360
$0
$0
$0
$0
$0
$0
$0
$0
$0
$0
$0
$0
$0
$0
$0
$0
$0
$0
$0
$153,920
$33,072
$0
$0
$186,992
$0
$0
$0
$0
$0
$0
Subtotal
Travel
$0
Subtotal
Equipment
Vehicles
Subtotal
Supplies
equipment mtce/repair
Subtotal
Contractual
Subtotal
Other
Subtotal
Total Costs
Project (Program)
Income1
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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.