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:
Oregon Department of Forestry
Phone:
FAX:
Email:
503.945.7341
503.945.7454
Sboro@odf.state.or.us
Address (Street or P. O. Box, City, State, Zip):
2600 State Street, Salem, Oregon 97310
Project Coordinator
Project Coordinator (Name and Title):
Christy Donham
Fire Prevention Tech/Public Information Officer
Organization/Jurisdiction:
Oregon Department of Forestry/Central Oregon District/Prineville-Sisters Unit
Phone:
FAX:
Email:
541.447.5658
541.447.1469
Cdonham@odf.state.or.us
Project Information
Project Title:
Wildland Urban Interface Fire Prevention Community Education Programs for Central Oregon
Proposed Project Start Date:
Proposed Project End Date:
Fall 2003
Fall 2004
Federal Funding Request:
Total Project Funding:
$72,000
$106,000
Are you submitting multiple projects? If so, please explain and prioritize:
Yes – Priority # 1 in Prevention Category
Brief Project Description:
Deschutes county has been zoned a wildfire hazard zone/extreme fire risk under SB360. The Living With Fire
pamphlet will be distributed as an insert in The Bend Bulletin. The Central Oregon Fire Prev Coop (COFPC) will be
responsible for obtaining the pamphlet from Washington Dept. of Natural Resoucrs (WDNR) and providing it to the
newspaper where it will reach 30,000 Wildland Urban Interface (WUI) residents.
We will recruit nationally known local residents (ie: sports figures), and work with the Sisters High School, to create 30
second video spots about WUI issues. Topics will address this number one human caused fire problem in this area; safe
debris burning and defensible space. Spots will be aired on the local TV station (Z21) during daily newscasts. Z21 will
match all spots and air them as Public Service Announcements during available time slots.
Over 20,000 children live in the interface of the tri-county area. Posters and brochures promoting wildland fire
prevention would be created to leave with the first grade teachers, principals, and parents of central Oregon school
students. This would support the already well established "Team Teaching." All materials will be distributed through
COFPC.
Project Location (latitude/longitude if applicable):
County:
Congressional District:
Central Oregon
Crook, Deschutes, Jefferson
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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)
(2)
Wildland Urban Interface Fuels Project
Wildland Urban Interface Education and Prevention Project
(3)
(4)
Community Planning for Fire Protection Project
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:
Location: Crook, Deschutes, and Jefferson counties. Central Oregon is very attractive to those who desire to
build and live in a forested area. Some of the largest and more hazardous wildland/urban interface zones in
the western United States are located here. Millions of acres of US Forest Service and Bureau of Land
Management lands, along with private lands, lie within the tri-county area. These are some of the heaviest
used lands for recreation in the state. This, coupled with miles of contiguous boundaries; interface
communities targeted as high/extreme risk to wildland fires; hundereds of wildland fire starts; some of the
worst drought conditions in the past ten years, all prove the continuing need for awareness and education.
Behaviors need to be changed by educating citizens.
Implementation: Fall, 2003 and will include coordination with the interagency partners listed below.
Outcomes: While participating in the already well established Fire Free program, it is our goal to use new,
cost effective ways to reach even more interface residents and recreationists and educate them on WUI issues.
We will strive to reach over 200,000 people who live and recreate in the interface. With awareness and
education comes changed behaviors. We would also be building upon sound interagency working
relationships.
Partners: Ochoco and Deschutes National Forests, the Prineville District of the Bureau of Land Management,
Bureau of Indian Affairs-Warm Springs, the Oregon Department of Forestry, 15 city and rural fire
departments, the Office of State Fire Marshal, all grade schools within the tri-county area, Sisters High
School, The Bend Bulletin, Z21, and other tri-county media.
Relationship to Community: This project directly relates to the community through the outreach of
information, awareness, and education. The pamphlet with local contact numbers will be widely distributed.
The video WUI spots will reach those who watch news and other television shows. Utilizing the school
system we will reach a long term audience and plant seeds of change: children, teachers, principals, and
parents of children. We will be working closly with the interagency partners listed above to assure maximun
coverage. This work closely relates to, and intertwines with various on-going agency projects. Multiple
phases of this project directly relate to natural landscape fire plans.
Implementation of portions of this project would start in 2004. One distribution of phamplets will be made in
the spring. The contact number on the pamphlet would encourage personal contact with homeowners that
would continue all year long. Video clip production would take place each spring for three years. The
school outreach is a well established program created in the 1970's. Materials we create would be used for at
least five years and we don't anticipate any income to be generated.
Activities/Equipment: Activities include distribution of pamphlet, home owner contacts, creating brochures
and posters, visiting all tri-county grade schools, and 30 second video spots for TV.
Extent of Actions: Over 200,000 interface residents and recreationists would be exposed to at least one
method of this education. Subdivisions such as Sunriver and Black Butte where recreationists reside in the
summer would become familiar with the interface hazards that they are temporarily part of. Exposure for all
citizens, temporary and permanent through newspaper, television, and through education of children,
teachers, principals and parents via the school system
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: The majority of
our target area/audience has been zoned high hazard under SB360 so the impact of
this proposal will promote the reduction of risk in high hazard areas by taking advantage of the concern of the
landowners. Our project proposal will bring awareness/education and reinforce the message of
defensible/survivable space through creative, proven avenues. This project benefits resources on both federal
land and adjacent non-federal land because a large majority of our target audience are in close proximity to
these lands. An educated person will be fire concious on all lands, regardless of ownership. Phases 1 and 2
create opportunities for fuels treatment plans if the interface resident/recreationist applies the information
provided them. Phase 3 relates to a community fire strategy where children learn about wildland fire
prevention. The communities have already been involved in Fire Free and contacts made by earlier WUI
programs. Those along with these three phases will open the door for interface resident contacts, home
assessments, home owner association, civic group, and town hall presentations on defensible/survivable
space. It will lead to enhance or restore a local-fire adapted ecosystem through educating the interface
resident of natural fire resistive plants and will mitigate or lead to the mitigation of hazardous fuels through
education of defensible/survivable space. These programs, along with other programs such as Fire Free, will
be maintained in future years by all agencies via continued contact with the interface resident and schools.
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 other 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: Jobs
will be created for landscaping contractors, nurserys and associated businesses.
This project could be offered to serve as a model for other communities. Phase 1 has already established
itself in three states: Nevada, Washington and Oregon and should be used throughout the western United
States. Phase 2 could and should be used across the western United States. It has proven itself with other
marketing strategies and should prove very beneficial with WUI issues. Phase 3 is also a proven program in
California and Oregon and could and should be used in grade schools across the western United States. All
three phases could be utilized nationwide.
Interface residents/recreationist will be encouraged to take their clean-up debris to the landfill where it will be
mulched or chipped and reused for landscaping.
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: All
aspects of this project are interagency related. It will directly interconnect with on-going
interagency/intergovernmental WUI projects and plans.
The level of cooperation for this entire project is high. Materials will be distributed through the Central
Oregon Fire Prevention Coop, established in 1976 and currently active and heavily involved in wildland fire
prevention activities. Cooperators include the Ochoco and Deschutes National Forests, the Prineville District
of the Bureau of Land Management, the Bureau of Indian Affairs - Warm Springs, the Oregon Department of
Forestry, 15 city and rural fire departments, and the Office of State Fire Marshal.
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: The public has
been exposed through other WUI projects, Fire Free, and the Living With Fire
pamphlet. It is evident the public is very interested in receiving more information on this subject. All tricounty schools continue to support this program and desire up-to-date literature.
B. The Central Oregon Fire Prevention Coop and all agencies involved have been very supportive of all three
phases of this project proposal.
C. The interface resident/recreationist must choose to make a difference and it is proven that through
awareness and education come changed behaviors. Through this education the environment, and homes can
be protected from wildland fire which in turn will save lives. Ultimately, socially and economically, money
will be saved and funds for communities will not be lost to wildland fire. Through this education we will let
the interface resident/recreationist know their responsibility, including the youth. It is believed that educated
children will not play with matches or lighters and will grow up knowing the truth about wildfire and the
devastation that can come with it.
Enclosure 3C - Project Work Form
Tasks
Time Frame
Responsible Party
Project #1 - order pamphlets and have
The Bulletin distribute them from the
Central Oregon Fire Prevention Coop.
Order Fall 2003.
Distribute Spring 2004.
Christy Donham and the
Central Oregon Fire
Prevention Coop
Project #2 - line up nationally known
celebrities, set a date for filming with
Sisters High School, get 30 second
video spots to KTVZ 21.
Line up celebrities Fall 2003.
Film with Sisters High School fall
of 2004.
Get videos to Z21 to be aired
spring 2004.
Christy Donham and the
Central Oregon Fire
Prevention Coop
Project #3 - create and print two
brochures and a poster.
Have brochure and poster copy
ready for print by Fall 2003.
Into schools April and May 2004.
Christy Donham and the
Central Oregon Fire
Prevention Coop
Top of Form
Enclosure 4D - Project Budget
Cost Category
Description
Federal
Agency
Applicant
Partner 1
Personnel
12 mths Forest Officer Wages
34,265
10,350
Subtotal
34,265
10,350
14,735
3,105
14,735
3,105
Partner 2
Total
44,615
Fringe Benefits
Subtotal
17,840
Travel
Subtotal
1,960
3,864
1,960
3,864
5,824
Equipment
Subtotal
Supplies
Living With Fire Pamphlets
Distribution of Pamphlet
Subtotal
9,000
1,500
10,500
Contractual
Brochures and Poster
Video Air Time
Subtotal
4,500
8,000
12,500
1,721
1,721
12,221
13,000
13,000
25,500
$13,000
$106,000
Other
Subtotal
Total Costs
$72,000
$3,681
$17,319
Project (Program) Income1
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.