Project Summary Form
Id Number 2006-222
NATIONAL FIRE PLAN COMMUNITY ASSISTANCE AND WILDLAND URBAN-INTERFACE PROJECTS
Application for Fuels Treatment Projects
Applicant
Applicant/Organization:
State of Washington, Department of Natural Resources
Phone: (111 111-1111 x 1111)
Type of Applicant: (enter appropriate letter in box)
A
509-684-7474
FAX: (111 111-1111 x 1111)
A. State
B. County
C. Municipal
D. Township
E. Interstate
509-684-7484
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):
P.O. Box 190 Colville, WA 99114
Project Coordinator
Project Coordinator (Name and Title):
Mr. Chuck Johnson Community Fire Planner
Organization/Jurisdiction:
Department of Natural Resources, NE Region
Phone: (111 111-1111 x 1111)
509-684-7474
FAX: (111 111-1111 x 1111)
509-684-7484
Call Ahead For FAX
Email:
chuck.johnson@wadnr.gov
Project Information
Project Title:
Bead Lake Wildland Urban Interface Fuels Reduction Project
Proposed Project Start Date:
05/01/2006
Federal Funding Request:
$ 120,000
Proposed Project End Date:
04/30/2007
Total Project Funding:
$
144,000
Are you submitting multiple projects? If so, please explain and prioritize:
Yes, the DNR is submitting multiple projects. All projects will be prioritized by Local Coordinating Group.
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).
A hazard fuels reduction project is proposed to create fuel breaks around a community in the Wildland Urban Interface at Bead Lake. The project
will complement a planned fuels reduction project on adjacent federal lands on the Colville National Forest. The Forest Service anticipates
beginning implementation in 2006. Funding of this proposal will serve to extend fuels reduction work across the landscape beyond the National
Forest boundary by implementing hazard fuels reduction in the interface between the forest and the Bead Lake community.
Project Location:
Latitude: 48.18075
Longitude: 117.05
County:
Pend Oreille
Name of Federal, State or Tribal contact with whom you coordinated this proposal:
Federal Congressional District:
5
Telephone number of Contact:
Al Garr, Fire Staff, Colville N.F.
509-684-7000 Ext.
Steve Rawlings, Fuels Specialist, Colville N.F.
509-684-7000 Ext.
Eric Trimble, AFMO-Fuels, Pend Oreille Valley R.D.
509-447-9281 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?
This project is strongly supported by the Pend Oreille County Local Coordinating Group
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 100
Treatment Hand Pile Burning
Acres 100
Treatment Hand Piling
Acres 100
Treatment
Acres 0
If you have a treatment type other than standard types above:
Other 1 Fuel Ladder Removal
Acres 100
Other 2
Acres 0
A. The Bead Lake Wildland Urban Interface Fuels Reduction Project area lies Southeast of the Kalispel Indian Reservation near the Idaho state
border. This area is surrounded by Colville National Forest and is adjacent to a planned USFS Fuels Reduction Project. That project proposes
considerable fuels reduction activity in the wildland/urban interface. The Bead Lake project will complement Forest Service efforts by extending
fuels reduction work from the National Forest boundary outward to the interface between the forest and the community.
The Bead Lake proposal involves implementing fuels reduction around the Bead Lake community. An application process would involve selection
criteria for sites for fuels reduction. Prior to beginning fuels reduction work, a fuels management consultant and the property owner will conduct an
onsite inspection. The consultant and landowner will develop a landscape prescription and work agreement. If tasks are beyond the capabilities of
an owner, the work order will be passed to a contract hazard reduction crew. The crews will utilize hand or small-mechanized equipment to fulfill the
prescribed work.
B. There are several anticipated outcomes: -- Reduce fire intensity and torching potential near private improvements, -- Break up the continuity of
hazardous fuels conditions across the landscape, --Provide firefighters with a chance to mount a reasonable defense against wildfire, --Increase
Firefighter Safety, --Increase landowner awareness of fire hazard mitigation.
C. There are several community partners involved in planning this project. Fire managers from the Colville National Forest and the Washington
State DNR support this proposal. Collaboration and coordination has occurred within the Pend Oreille County Local Coordinating Group, P.O.
County Conservation District, and WSU Extension Office. These groups recognize the danger of catastrophic fire in the community and are willing
to bring focus to fuels problems and prioritize mitigation strategies. More partners will be involved once the project is funded and contacts with
groups and individuals occur. These partners include key landowners, developers and other community leaders.
D. This project is a priority in the Pend Oreille County CWPP that is currently in progress. Local fire managers recognize a critical opportunity in
timing a fuels reduction project in conjunction with the USFS Fuels Reduction Project on National Forest land. Bead Lake is in a recognized highrisk area, and fuels reduction efforts are needed.
E. It is estimated that there are over 50 homes in the project area. This proposal will treat approximately 100 acres around this community. These
are labor intensive treatments involving, thinning, slashing, pruning, chipping, handpiling, and otherwise removing flammable fuels generated in
Fuels Condition Class 2 and 3 stands.
F. Since this project proposes to continue the work of a successful program currently being administered by the Wa State DNR, implementation can
start quickly after funding. The DNR match is in public relations, Firewise/stewardship education and grant administration.
G. Procedures regarding homeowner applications and screening, fuels consultations, work orders, billing and payments processes are already in
place. The project will be completed in a timely if funding is provided.
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:
Response:
A. The project area is mountainous and wooded. It provides scenic views for the valley surrounding the Bead Lake area, a
recreational zone important to the local economy. Rural neighborhoods are served by a network of county roads with parallel
power lines. These roads and powerline corridors also serve as potential fuelbreaks. As the Bead Lake project proceeds, the
consultant will look for opportunities to make improvements to these corridors where they may work well as future fuelbreaks.
Protecting this area from catastrophic fire is high for water quality reasons. The Bead Lake watershed is the main source for
residents. The lakes water quality is largely dependent upon a steady supply of good quality water for the health of Bead Lake and
the recreational and economic opportunities it provides. Water quality is critical for those who depend upon healthy watersheds
for economic, subsistence, and recreational support.
B. The proposal will minimize adverse fire behavior by reducing hazardous fuels in the W.U.I. Contractors will thin small,
overstocked trees, cut brush, prune low limbs, handpile debris, chip larger woody pieces, and/or remove debris to safe burning
areas. This will increase forest health, decrease fire intensity, flame length and the tendency for fire to ascend into tree crowns.
The overall effect is to reduce Fuels Condition Class from 2 or 3 down to 1. Fuel reduction projects will have the broader effect of
breaking up the continuity of hazardous fuels across the landscape.
The project meets National Fire Plan Implementation Plan goals by: --focusing on treating improvements and hazards that would
most threaten firefighters defending homes, -- increasing homeowner education by distributing FireWise literature during the
project, restoring portions of unhealthy forests by reducing fuels condition class from 2 or 3 down to 1, --collaborating across
agency lines to prioritize common goals,
--achieving fuel reduction goals in the wildland/urban interface where adjacent to
federal lands, --planning cross-boundary fuels work both by this grant and the Bead Lake Fuels Reduction Project on the Colville
National Forest to achieve a coinciding implementation schedule, --monitoring results so work can be improved during the project
and in the future.
C. Many citizens do not know what a safe fuels condition looks like. Once the initial time consuming and financial expense of fuels
reduction occurs, a public example will be created. Past experience in this program results in enthusiastic landowners that can see
what to do, and why it will lessen fire danger. Landowners have been much more willing to maintain fuel breaks after the more
labor-intensive fuel reduction work has been completed.
D. The fuels consultant will be required to take before and after photographs of the treatment areas. These will be compiled with
the work orders and costs. A monitoring field trip will be organized during the project. Partners in the project, members of the Pend
Oreille L.C.G., the Project Coordinator, the Fuels Consultant, and local city and county officials will visit the site to view work
progression. Appropriate changes or recommendations will be incorporated into the project and noted for inclusion in future
projects.
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:
A. The project will benefit the economy by hiring and paying local workers. The tasks will likely include equipment rental and repair
at local vendors. Property values will be increased. The potential economic damage to a weak local economy will be lessened as
risk of catastrophic fire and it effects are reduced.
B. Financial estimations of project costs figure utilizing one Fuels Consultant and a Contract Fuels Crew for the duration of the
project. The work must be done in non-snow months, so the contractor may opt to hire two crews to get the work done in half the
time.
C. The consultant and the contract crew will be implementing fuels reduction work that is different than typical logging work. The
crews will work with chainsaws, pruners, brush cutters, and chippers. They will gain an understanding of the types and quantities of
material that can be generated by fuels reduction work that mostly involving small diameter vegetation. As the workers and
landowners see the type and quantity of debris generated, a greater understanding will develop about feasibility of any economic
utilization.
D. Biomass is beginning to be appreciated locally as landscape mulch and livestock bedding. Such utilization has been limited to
homeowners. The Bead Lake project may be large enough to spawn some peripheral utilization schemes.
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. This project is tied to the Pend Oreille County Wildfire Protection Plan that is currently in progress. Northwest Management is
the Consultant Firm preparing the plan. Joanne Boggs, P.O. County Emergency Mgmt., is the local contact. This community has a
risk assessment of High. Local fire managers recognize a critical timing opportunity to implement this project concurrently with the
adjacent USFS project.
B. The project has been reviewed and prioritized by the Pend Oreille Local Coordinating Group. This team is heavily represented
by local, state, and federal agencies. Through this collaboration, the group recommended fuels reduction work adjacent to the
Colville National Forests upcoming Bead Lake project on adjacent Forest Service lands.
C. Cooperators/partners include: --Arcadia District, Northeast Region, Washington State Department of Natural Resources, --U.S.
Forest Service, Colville National Forest, --Pend Oreille County Conservation District, --WSU Extension Office
D. Local support has been enthusiastic among those landowners who have been contacted. Match will occur from fire districts,
DNR, and Forest Service in the form of publicity assistance, project coordination assistance, and monitoring assistance.
Project Work Form
Tasks
--Obtain funding
--Obtain the services of a Fuels Consultant
--Obtain the services of fuels reduction
contractors
Time Frame
Responsible Party
Grant Administrator
May 2006
--Begin project design
Grant Administrator
May 2006
--Begin Fuel Reduction Planning with
landowners
Fuels Consultant
June 2006
Fuels Reduction Contractors
--Implement fuel reduction work orders
July 2006
--Monitoring visits to treatment areas
Grant Administrator & LCG Members
July - October 2006
Grant Administrator
--Project completion and accomplishment
report
April 2007
Project Budget
WSU Extension
Cost Category
Description
Federal
Agency
Applicant
PO Co. RFPD
Partner 1
Partner 2
Total
Partner 3
Personnel
Administration
$0
Monitoring
Subtotal
$5,000
$0
$0
$0
$5,000
$0
$5,000
$1,000
$1,000
$0
$7,000
$0
$10,000
$1,000
$1,000
$0
$12,000
$0
$2,000
$0
$0
$0
$2,000
$0
$0
$2,000
$0
$0
$0
$0
$0
$0
$0
$0
$2,000
$0
$2,000
$500
$500
$0
$3,000
$0
$0
$0
$0
$0
$2,000
$0
$500
$500
$0
$3,000
$0
$500
$500
$500
$0
$1,500
$0
$500
$500
$500
$0
$1,500
$0
$1,000
$1,000
$1,000
$0
$3,000
$0
$500
$500
$0
$0
$1,000
$0
$500
$500
$0
$0
$1,000
$0
$1,000
$1,000
$0
$0
$2,000
$12,000
$0
$0
$0
$0
$12,000
$108,000
$0
$0
$0
$0
$0
$108,000
$120,000
$0
$0
$0
$120,000
$0
$0
$1,000
$1,000
$0
$2,000
$0
$0
$0
$0
$0
$0
$0
$0
$1,000
$1,000
$0
$2,000
$120,000
$16,000
$4,500
$3,500
$0
$144,000
$0
$0
$0
$0
$0
$0
Fringe Benefits
Indirect Costs
Subtotal
Travel
mileage, per diem
$0
Subtotal
Equipment
Digital cameras, GPS Uni
Laptop, printer
Subtotal
Supplies
Educational materials
advertising, mailings
Subtotal
Contractual
Fuels Consultant
Contract Crew
Subtotal
Other
Outreach
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.