Enclosure 3A - Project Summary Form
NATIONAL FIRE PLAN COMMUNITY ASSISTANCE AND WILDLAND URBAN INTERFACE PROJECTS
Application for Wildland Urban Interface Fuels / Education and
Prevention / Community Planning for Fire Protection Projects
Applicant
Applicant/Organization:
Institute for Washington’s Future
Phone:
FAX:
Email:
425/226-1909
425/226-1095
Don@forwashington.org
Address (Street or P. O. Box, City, State, Zip):
1900 S Puget Dr #200, Renton WA 98055
Project Coordinator
Project Coordinator (Name and Title):
Jim Doran, Project Director
Organization/Jurisdiction:
Colville Community Forestry Coalition
Phone:
FAX:
Email:
509/997-2295
Same as phone – call first
Doran@mymethow.com
Project Information
Project Title:
Colville Community Action for Fire Reduction
Proposed Project Start Date:
Proposed Project End Date:
April 1, 2004
March 31, 2005
Federal Funding Request:
Total Project Funding:
$195,500
$388,650
Are you submitting multiple projects? If so, please explain and prioritize:
No
Brief Project Description:
The Colville Community Forestry Coalition will work with the federal, state and private forestland managers to
create a viable Community Fire Plan for one or more communities within the general Colville National Forest
area. The community outreach, education and engagement in the prioritization, planning process and
implementation of such Community Fire Plans will be performed by the CCF Coalition in concert with the
several co-operators that have agreed to work with this project. This process will fulfill the requirement for
collaborative processes set by regional policies of the US Forest Service. The goal is to design and implement
Community Fire Plans that substantially reduce the risk of wild fire in areas adjacent to federal and state lands.
The project will demonstrate how a diverse coalition of stakeholders can work together to successfully develop a
community fire strategy and fuels treatment plan. The project will also focus on the utilization of the fuels
reduction materials by local businesses and in using local labor to perform the fuels reduction work.
Project Location (latitude/longitude if applicable):
County:
Congressional District:
Chewelah Basin
Pend Oreille, Stevens
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Project Type: Check appropriate project type. More than one type may be checked. If only Box (4) is checked, use Enclosure 4.
(1) X Wildland Urban Interface Fuels Project
(2) X Wildland Urban Interface Education and Prevention Project
(3) X Community Planning for Fire Protection Project
(4)
Fuels Utilization and Marketing Project
If the applicant is an unincorporated area, define the geographic area being represented:
Enclosure 3B (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
Address these
 Project implementation
items as
 Anticipated outcomes
applicable:
 Measures and reporting
 Interagency partners
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project relationship to community or natural landscape fire plans
project time frames and income
specify types of activities and equipment used
amount or extent of actions (acres, number of homes, etc)
environmental, cultural and historical resource requirements
Response:
This project will help reduce fire risk throughout the 60,000-acre Chewelah Basin and other areas by
educating all landowners about fire risk, training them in steps they can take to reduce fire risk, and by
implementing a community process which will develop a Community Fire Plan and the implementation of such a
plan that allows for the utilization of material by local wood mills and woodworking businesses.
The Chewelah Basin is embedded in the Colville National Forest (in the Tri-County area of Stevens, Ferry
and Pend Oreille). It is a high fire risk area because it contains significant housing development, including a ski
area. By working in the Basin’s urban interface, this project will protect the Federal forests adjacent to private
holdings. It will also protect the City of Chewelah and its outlying areas, which lie at the foot of the Basin. The
Chewelah Basin is the primary target for an initial Community Fire Plan, although several other wildland-urban
interface areas are also of high priority.
An ongoing community education and participation process is at the heart of this project. Participants in this
process include the Colville Community Forestry Coalition (CCF Coalition), staff of the US Forest Service, the
professional foresters within the Coalition, local environmental organizations, the Lands Council, the Kettle
Range Conservation Group, the Washington State University Extension Office, the Rural Technology Initiative,
the Ferry and Stevens County Conservation Districts, the Washington State Department of Natural Resources,
and the Institute for Washington’s Future. WA DNR and the Lands Council will incorporate into this process a
qualified fuels education program designed to produce a strategy and fuels plan. Community outreach and
involvement will be led by the CCF Coalition. Our planning will be supported by the Rural Technology Initiative.
The WA DNR will assist in the technical aspects of fuels reduction.
The education process will be supported by a fire risk reduction program. In turn, the fire risk reduction
program will be offered and promoted through the community education process. The fire program will offer
participating private landowners (identified as high-risk) some funding support for treating their own lands. This
fire risk reduction work will then be used educationally as both demonstration and hands-on experience. The
process will be ongoing over a 12-month period. All SEPA and local requirements will be met.
Fuels reduction activities will be performed upon non-federal lands within the planning area by
processor/forwarders and hand removal. Over 1500 homes are in need of fire risk reduction in the Chewelah
Basin, including the outlying areas of the City of Chewelah. Similar needs can be easily identified in other urban
interface areas. This project can directly fund treatment upon 200 acres of private land. Additional substantial
acreage within the Community Fire Plan area will be treated through the acquisition of additional funds by the
cooperators and partners. This revenue will come from cash contributions from cooperators and the sale of the
fuels materials removed by the project. Additionally, the project will work with private landowners, the Lands
Council and the DNR to access funding opportunities for further fuels reduction work.
A fire risk reduction fund will be established to foster future projects. It will be a revolving fund dedicated to
supporting fire reduction projects on private land. It will be funded initially by grants, donations, and proceeds
from this project.
This project will intersect with the US Forest Service Colville National Forest’s Colville Wildland Urban Interface
Fuels Reduction Project. In fact, three US Forest Service staff members are participants in the CCF Coalition and
ensure on-the-ground project coordination.
Enclosure 3B (Page 2 of 3) - Project Evaluation Criteria
Applications for funding must include narrative responses that address the following four criteria. Within each criterion, subcriteria are listed in descending order of importance. Limit your responses to the areas provided.
1. Reducing Fire Risk. (40 points))
A. Describe how the proposal promotes reduction of risk in high hazard areas or communities, or natural landscapes.
B. Describe how the proposed project benefits resources on federal land or adjacent non-federal land, or how it protects the safety
of communities.
C. To what extent does the project implement or create a cooperative (1) fuels treatment plan or (2) community fire strategy
(include evidence of the plan if it already exists)?
D. Explain to what extent the affected community or proponent has been involved or plans to involve the affected community in a
qualified fuels education program (e.g., FIREWISE).
E. Explain how the proposal (1) leads to, enhances or restores a local fire-adapted ecosystem, and/or (2) mitigates or leads to the
mitigation of hazardous fuel conditions.
F. How will the proposed treatments or programs be maintained in future years?
Response:
A) This project will create a Community Fire Plan and initially treat approximately 200 acres and eventually over
3000 acres of private property in the urban interface of the Chewelah Creek Basin (or other prioritized area) that
are identified through the project as high risk. B) The Chewelah Basin is embedded in the Colville National
Forest and consists of private, federal and state forestlands. The non-federal lands treated by this project are
directly adjacent to federal lands that are involved in the USFS Colville Wildland Urban Interface Fuels Reduction
Project. The Community Fire Plans will address the safety needs of the homes within the basin and the City of
Chewelah and its outlying areas that lie at the entrance to the basin. C) The cooperation between this project and
the USFS will result in a coordinated “across the ownership” fuels reduction plan and implementation. Further
implementation funding will be generated through the cooperators and partners. D) The Lands Council and WA
DNR have begun fire risk education and outreach in the Chewelah Basin. This project will expand and
complement that effort, with the Lands Council and DNR as a partners, and include media and community
meetings to educate the residents of the entire area. E) The project will lead to the removal of fuels from areas
near homes in a way that will help prevent the spread of wildfire across ecosystems. F) The proceeds of the sale
of materials will be used to create a revolving “fuels reduction fund” to be used over an extended period of time
to continue the work of reducing fuel loads.
2. Increasing local capacity. (30 points)
A. How would the proposal improve or lead to the improvement of the local economy in terms of jobs and sustainable economic
activity? How many jobs are expected to be created or retained and for how long (please distinguish between essentially yearround and seasonal jobs)? How will this proposal link to toher projects (or proposed projects) to create year-round jobs?
B. To what extent will this project be offered to serve as a model for other communities or natural landscapes?
C. Will biomass or forest fuels be utilized; if so, in what manner and how much?
Response:
A) The project will increase the economic capacity of the local communities and address serious resource issues.
The Vaagen Bros. Mill, located in Colville, and the Pend Oreille Fiber Mill near Usk, are near state-of-the art mills
(HewSaw) that can utilize much of the small diameter material generated from fuels reduction work. The
materials generated from this project (and the subsequent community projects) will significantly help keep these
mills in operation. The fuels reduction implementation under this project will directly result in 10 year-round
harvesting jobs and 3 to 5 full-time jobs in the mill at the initial 200-acre phase. Over three years another 50 fulltime jobs will be created from the Chewelah Fire Plan as it is expanded over the entire 3000 acres of private
forestlands within the basin. B) This Community Fire Plan will be used as a model for other communities and
will, therefore, result in the creation of many more full-time and long-term jobs in the Tri-County area. C) The
project will be able to supply materials for promising new value-added product manufacturing businesses in the
area. Very small material will be utilized as bio-mass for energy generation in the several area co-generation
facilities.
Enclosure 3B (Page 3 of 3) - Project Evaluation Criteria
3. Increasing interagency and intergovernmental coordination. (15 Points)
A. Describe how this project implements a local intergovernmental strategy or plan, or creates such a plan. Describe the plan if it
already exists.
B. Explain the level of cooperation, coordination or strategic planning through a “Local Coordination Group” for wildland fire
activities, or among federal, state, tribal, local government and community organizations. List the cooperators (a detailed list
of cooperators will be required for projects that are funded).
Response:
A) The Colville National Forest has just begun the process of developing the Colville Wildland Urban Interface Fuels
Reduction Project. Forest personnel have requested the CCF Coalition’s participation in the development of
priorities and methods for planning and for the implementation of such plans. The Coalition has been invited to
interact with the federal and state agencies as the “community voice” in the development of the agency’s fuels
reduction plan. The Coalition will provide the community outreach and education needed to gather community
support for fuels reduction plans. B) The CCF Coalition has become the “community organization” that is the
catalyst for cooperation between the USFS, the WA DNR, the economic development and environmental
organizations, the Tri-County Resource Advisory Committee, the Federal Lands Advisory Council, and local
government in the tri-county region. At the present time all of these entities have expressed their support for the
activities of the Coalition as expressed in this application. Letters of support and cooperation will be available
from all of these entities.
4. Expanding Community Participation. (15 Points)
A. To what extent have interested individuals, groups, and communities been provided an opportunity to become informed and
involved in this proposal?
B. Describe the extent of local support or opposition for the project, including any cost-sharing arrangements.
C. What are the environmental, social and educational benefits or concerns of the project?
Response:
A) The project has and will be instrumental in the expansion of community participation. The CCF Coalition has
had 28 members from the local community, together with agency personnel, involved in a “problem solving”
process for over a year. The CCF Coalition is open to any individual or organization that is committed to the
process of finding solutions to fire threats and to forest ecosystem health. The CCF Coalition has used, and will
continue to use, the local media to inform and invite the public to participate in this process. B) Local support
has been high as witnessed by the high attendance at Coalition meetings and field trips. Letters of support for the
CCF Coalition have been received from individuals and organizations and local government. The Tri-County
Resource Advisory Committee has funded the CCF Coalition for $5,000 from Title II funds. The National Forest
Foundation has funded the CCF Coalition for $15,000 and private sources have funded $8,000 to date.
Cooperators bring over $65,000 to the project and there is another $20,000 worth of in-kind contribution from
the CCF Coalition participants. C) The preservation of local forestlands and ecosystems, as well as community
structures, will be a direct result of this project. The education of the public regarding the reduction of fire risk
will be a significant part of this project. The successes of this cooperative community fuels reduction planning
will set the stage for forest restoration planning for the significant acres of already managed forestlands of
Northeastern Washington in the future.
Enclosure 3C - Project Work Form
Tasks
Time Frame
Responsible Party
Coordinate with USFS & DNR project planning
Coalition Membership and Board meetings
Coalition committee meetings with all Cooperators
Project administration
Secretarial services & communication services
Design outreach & educational program & organize
community process
Survey stand conditions within the Fire Plan area
Month 1 to Month 5
Month 1 to Project End
Month 1 to Project End
Month 1 to Project End
Month 1 to Project End
Month 2
Coordinator and Cooperators
Coordinator, Coalition Members
Coordinator and Cooperators
IWF
WSU, Coordinator, IWF
Coordinator, TLC, WSU
Month 2 to Month 3
Gather data for RTI Modeling of stand conditions and
effect of prescriptions
Outreach to the community for support, media articles;
Door-to-door contact with informational packets
Integrate the RITC Firewise data into the “draft” Fire
Plan
Design “draft” Fire Plan from inventory data of specific
treatment areas
Reports on the design, outreach and implementation of
the project
Prepare monitoring protocol
Create website and list-serve for communication
Integrate the RITC Firewise data into draft Fire Plan
Gather GIS data and create maps of project
Community meetings re: Fire Plan
Organize contractors and specific sites for work
Redraft Fire Plan; implant GIS data and priorities and
possibilities (homes)
Publish Fire Plan (condensed) in local paper
Set up purchase and sale plan for fuels reduction
materials
Public meetings in each area
Teach LMS System to at least 3 local individuals and
provide programs to use LMS
Collect data and photo document and develop model
Final draft of Fire Plan
Set up sales tracking program
Contacts with Contractors
Direct work at home sites and beyond
Ongoing public relations
Arrange sales of fuels reduction materials
Establish “sustaining fund” account and accounting
Review project reports and accounting
Prepare final report on project
Coordinate with USFS & DNR for identification of next
Community Fire Plan area
Month 3 and 4
Month 3 to Month 7
Coordinator, TLC, WSU, KRCG,
DNR
DNR, TLC, RTI, USFS,
Coordinator, IWF
WSU, TLC, Coordinator, IWF
Month 3
RITC, TLC, WSU, Coordinator
Month 3 to Month 4
Month 3 to Project End
Coordinator, TLC, WSU, RTI,
KRCG, IWF
IWF, Coordinator
Month 4 to Month 5
Month 4
Month 4
Month 4
Month 5 to Month 6
Month 5 to Month 6
Month 6
IWF, RTI, WSU
IWF
RITC, TLC, Coordinator
TLC, WSU, Coordinator
Coordinator, WSU, RTI, TLC
Coordinator, TLC, DNR, IWF
Coordinator, TLC, WSU, RTI, IWF
Month 6
Month 6
Coordinator
Coordinator, DNR, TLC, IWF
Month 6 to Month 7
Month 6 to Month 9
Coordinator, WSU, RTI, TLC
RTI, WSU, Coordinator
Month 6 to Project End
Month 7
Month 7
Month 7
Month 7 to Project End
Month 7 to Project End
Month 7 to Project End
Month 7
Month 10
Month 10 to Project End
Month 10
KRCG, TLC, WSU, IWF
Coordinator, TLC, WSU, IWF
IWF
TLC, DNR, Coordinator
TLC, DNR, Coordinator
Coordinator, IWF, WSU
IWF, Coordinator, DNR
IWF
IWF Coordinator, all Cooperators
IWF, WSU, TLC, Coordinator
USFS, DNR, Coordinator. IWF, all
Cooperators
NOTE: The Colville Community Forestry Coalition will be involved in all tasks.
IWF = The Institute for Washington’s Future
WSU = WA State University Extension Office
RTI = The Rural Technology Initiative
KRCG = The Kettle Range Conservation Group
Cooperators = All of the above.
TLC = The Lands Council
RITC = Rural Information Technology Center
DNR = WA Dept. of Natural Resources
USFS = United States Forest Service
Enclosure 3D Project Budget
Cost Category
Description
Personnel
Project Director
Project Staff
Subtotal
Federal
Agency
Applicant
$50,000
$60,000
$110,000
IWF /
CCF Coalition
$0
$15,000
$15,000
$0
Partner 1
Partner 2
The Lands
Council
WA DNR
Total
$0
$10,000
$10,000
$0
$15,000
$15,000
$50,000
$100,000
$150,000
$10,500
$2,000
$3,000
$15,500
$0
$10,500
$2,000
$3,000
$15,500
$4,000
$1,500
$5,500
$800
$0
$800
$800
$0
$800
$800
$0
$800
$6,400
$1,500
$7,900
Fringe Benefits
Subtotal
Travel
Automobile
Per diem
Subtotal
Equipment
Subtotal
Supplies
Office
Other Direct Costs
Subtotal
$10,000
$5,000
$15,000
$13,000
$6,000
$19,000
$1,250
$750
$2,000
$1,500
$750
$2,250
$25,750
$12,500
$38,250
Contractual
Thinning Crew
Extension Service
Subtotal
$50,000
$15,000
$65,000
$15,000
$0
$15,000
$0
$0
$0
$0
$0
$0
$65,000
$15,000
$80,000
Other
In-kind project support
$0
$85,000
$12,000
$0
$97,000
Subtotal
$0
$85,000
$12,000
$0
$97,000
$195,500
$145,300
$26,800
$21,050
$388,650
$0
$15,000
$0
$0
$15,000
Total Costs
Project (Program) Income1
(using deductive alternative)
1
$0
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.