Enclosure 3A - Project Summary Form
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NATIONAL FIRE PLAN COMMUNITY ASSISTANCE AND WILDLAND URBAN INTERFACE PROJECTS
Application for Fuels Treatment Projects
Applicant
Applicant/Organization:
Forestry Action Committee
Phone:
Type of Applicant: (enter appropriate letter in box)
L
541-592-4098
FAX:
A. State
B. County
C. Municipal
D. Township
E. Interstate
F. Intermunicipal
G. Special District
541-592-4010 Attn: FAC
Email:
forestryaction@cavenet.com
H. Independent School District
I. State-Controlled Institution of Higher Learning
J. Private University
K. Indian Tribe
L. Nonprofit Organization
M. Other (Specify) _______________________
Address (Street or P. O. Box, City, State, Zip):
PO Box 1872, Cave Junction, OR 97523
Project Coordinator
Project Coordinator (Name and Title):
Susan Chapp, Executive Director
Organization/Jurisdiction:
Forestry Action Committee
Phone:
FAX:
Email:
541-592-4098
541-592-4010 Attn: FAC
forestryaction@cavenet.com
Project Information
Project Title:
Illinois Valley Community Fire Plan
Proposed Project Start Date:
Proposed Project End Date:
12/01/04
11/30/06
Federal Funding Request:
Total Project Cost:
$23,000
$39,300
Are you submitting multiple projects? If so, please prioritize, and explain if the projects are stand alone, sequential or other:
No
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).
In partnership with ODF, IVFD, JCIFP, the community and landowners, the Forestry Action
Committee will conduct outreach, education, defensible space assessments and fuels reduction
plans for several additional acres in the Illinois Valley. FAC will hold neighborhood meetings,
collect resource forms, do multi-party monitoring, and work with Lorna Byrne Middle School to
create a fire-safe healthy woodland with accompanying education activities. Our Fire Plan goals
are to create and maintain a fire-safe valley in a thrifty manner that preserves individual freedom
and that is responsive to all our partners and to spontaneous grass roots input.
Project Location:
County:
Federal Congressional District:
Illinois Valley
Josephine
Second
Name of Federal, State or Tribal contact with whom you coordinated this proposal:
Telephone number of Contact:
Oregon Department of Forestry
541-664-3328
Enclosure 3A (Page 1 of 3) - 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:
 project location (e.g., Watershed,
Address
neighboring community)
these items
as applicable:  anticipated outcomes

project relationship to the community risk assessment and
mitigation plan
 amount or extent of actions (acres, number of homes, etc.)
 community partners and their
 project timeline and matching or contributed funds
role(s)
 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 haven’t worked with a local coordination group, why not?
Location: Illinois Valley, Illinois River Watershed, Rogue River Basin, Josephine County, southwest
Oregon. Cave Junction, O’Brien, Kerby, Selma. Most of the Valley is at high risk for fuel loads.
Project Relationship: FAC is a partner in the Josephine County Integrated Fire Plan (JCIFP), and is also
putting in this application to continue and expand the project we have developed over these past three years.
It would be difficult to overstate the trust, respect and reputation for usefulness and for accomplishing much
for little expenditure our Fire Project has earned in the community. We have BLM RAC funds for our
Integrated Woodland Management Project: if we do a fuels reduction plan for a property within ¼ mile of
BLM land, and the work opens the woodland to invasion by neighboring noxious weeds, we come in with the
Weed Crew and control the weeds, then that fall if appropriate our Tree Planting Project will offer native
woodland seedlings. This project gives good grounding in creation and maintenance of healthy fire-safe
woodlands.
Local Coordination: We partner with JCIFP, ODF, and IVFD and the community. Since our mission and
philosophy are to build ecosystem balance from the bottom up, our Local Coordination Group is the
community itself. Our Fire Plan is a fire-safe valley ridge top to ridge top maintained into the future as
economically as possible and with preservation of individual landowner freedoms. . The JCIFP is top-down,
which has its place. Our Fire Plan is bottom up, which has its place. We will continue to supply defensible
space assessments (DSA’s) and fuels reduction plans (FRP’s) for several additional acres to the rest of the
valley on demand, as the whole Valley needs attention and help to move toward fire safety. Middle School:
complete fuels reduction on three acre woodland and set up educational program on maintenance of healthy
fire-safe woodlands.
Extent of Actions: Defensible Space Assessments: 100; Fuels Reduction Plans (acres): 300; Neighborhood
Meetings: 500; Resource Forms: 600; GIS Mapping of Resource Form information. Work with school on
their woodland. Since ODF’s reimbursements will all be connected to the JCIFP, a new challenge will be to
motivate landowners to do the work without the $330 reimbursement inducement.
Outcomes: 1) a defensible space with training on putting out fire; 2) fuels reduction on several additional
acres with sufficient training in on-the-ground fire behavior so the landowner what to take and why, and can
expand into additional acreage and can maintain fuels reduction themselves into the future; 3) neighborhood
meetings – collection of resource forms and multi-party monitoring that records people’s knowledge,
perceptions, opinions and suggestions about the fire and the Illinois Valley, a document that will become a
part of our Fire Plan, and be of use to everyone; 4) mapping of resources and needs.
Timeline and Matches: We are requesting a two year grant. DSA’s, FRP’s, meetings, resource forms and
mapping are ongoing activities through the grant period. A summary of neighborhood input will be
completed by the end of the grant period. Matches: BLM RAC, ODF, JCIFP, IVFD, FAC.
Capacity: We have a national reputation for running pilot projects that are high quality, complex and
successful.
Enclosure 3A (Page 2 of 3) - 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. Protection: We give people the skills they need to protect themselves, their homes and properties, and
how to help their neighbors, in the event of a fire.
B and C. Fuels Reduction and Maintenance: The Fire Technician spends as many hours as it takes, with
repeat visits if requested, to educate the home owner in the behavior of fire and what fuels need to be
removed to improve the health and fire safety of the property. The landowner also knows what conditions
need to be maintained into the future. They can observe for themselves when work needs to be done again,
and will know how to do that work.
D. Multi-Party Monitoring: This year’s NFP emphasis on pre-determined prioritizations and FEMAT
methodology is weighted towards top-down projects. We hope the baby will not be thrown out with the bath
water. We hope there is still some space for the hard work we put in creating an effective, economical and
popular program in our community.
FAC is founded on the philosophy that ecosystem balance can only be created from the bottom up, and
only by the people who are occupying that space. We have an excellent track record with our Tree Planting,
Noxious Weed, Wild Mushroom Monitoring and Fire Plan Projects. We are experienced in multi-party
monitoring in its various appropriate forms. The first and last thing we do is listen to what the community
says, and take that very seriously. The neighborhood meetings will be our most consistent method. A
meeting will be any size from two people on, standing on the driveway, or sitting in the living room. We will
develop a general set of parameters to cover with each person: What is your personal fire vision for your
property? For your neighborhood? For the valley? For the public land? For ridge top to ridge top? How
well do the current Fire Plan actions fit with your vision? What are your criticisms, comments, suggestions?
While we will get a wide variety of responses, they will build a reality with discernable patterns that will
show an amazing amount of discernment, common sense and intelligence, and have great capacity for
guidance. We will write up and share this.
Enclosure 3A (Page 3 of 3) - 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. Local Economy: We provide work for a Community Coordinator, a Fire Technician and a GIS
Technician. In the past there have been no restrictions on whom the landowner has do the DSA or FRP work.
There have been no problems associated with this landowner freedom of choice. The quality control has been
no reimbursement until ODF signs off that the work is completed. As well as the value of freedom of choice,
the work goes to many poor people who are experienced with chainsaws and who are willing to do the work
for the reimbursement. I am not sure there will be reimbursements anymore, but there will still be work
available for poor people who are not licensed contractors.
B. How Many Jobs: part-time year-round work for the Community Coordinator, Fire Technician and GIS
Technician. Part-time seasonal work for DS and FR work.
C. Tools and Skills: Homeowners we have trained have already put out fires on their own and neighboring
properties before the fires got out of hand. These skills save people and the government a lot of money.
D. Biomass: I believe the IVCRT will develop biomass utilization and we will cooperate with that program.
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. Risk Assessment Plan: We respond to spontaneous community risk assessments. Our heaviest calls are
from: 1) people who live farthest from fire stations, whose houses could be burned up before the fire truck
gets there; 2) people with high fuels loads on their property; 3) people whose neighbors have high fuels loads.
This is intelligent grass roots risk assessment and mitigation.
B. Coordination: We do DSA’s and FRP’s for adjacent landowners if they are willing. If not, we build in
fuel breaks and other fire prevention strategies on the property which has asked for help. Our Fire Technician
is a volunteer with the Fire Department. They give her materials and guidelines to share with landowners.
They find our program a valuable way to communicate with landowners because we are trusted and gain
access. We partner with ODF who signs off on work when it is successfully completed.
C. Cooperators: JCIFP. Lorna Byrne Middle School. ODF. IVFD. BLM. Hoopa Tribe (offers
demonstrations on the Hoopa Way of Fire)
D. Local Support: Some people utilize our services but do not ask for the rebate. Many volunteers helped
with the fuels reduction at the Middle School. We are told frequently how much people value our program.
Enclosure 3A - Project Work Form
Tasks
Time Frame
Responsible Party
Work with JCIFP and other partners
12/04 – 11/06
Coordinator
Director
Education, Outreach, Media
12/04 – 11/06
Coordinator
Resource Forms
12/04 – 11/06
Coordinator
Neighborhood Meetings
Fill out survey forms and organize
responses
12/04 – 11/06
Coordinator
Director
Defensible Space Assessments
Fuels Reduction Plans
12/04 – 11/06
Fire Technician
GIS mapping of defensible space
assessments, fuels reduction plans,
resource forms and parts of survey
responses
12/04 – 11/06
GIS Technician
Lorna Byrne Middle School – finish
fuels reduction, raise funds, work with
school on curriculum, special projects
for healthy fire-safe woodland
12/04 – 11/06
Coordinator
Fire Technician
Director
Final Report
09/06 – 11/06
Director
Enclosure 3D Project Budget
Cost Category
Description
Federal
Agency
Applicant
Partner 1
Partner 2
Total
Personnel
Director
ODF Technician
0
$4,000
$12,000
$16,000
4,000
0
$4,000
$12,000
$12,000
Subtotal
0
0
0
0
0
Subtotal
0
0
0
0
0
Subtotal
0
0
0
0
0
Paper, stamps, tones, line,etc.
etcetc
Subtotal
$1,000
$300
0
0
$1,300
$1,000
$300
0
0
$1,300
0
0
0
0
0
0
Subtotal
$12,000
$6,000
$18,000
$12,000
$6,000
$18,000
Subtotal
$3,000
$1,000
$4,000
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
$3,000
$1,000
$4,000
$23,000
$4,300
$12,000
Subtotal
Fringe Benefits
Travel
Equipment
Supplies
Contractual
Fire Technician
Community Coordinator
Other
GIS Technician
Bookwork
Total Costs
Project (Program) Income1
(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.
$39,300