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:
503.945.7433
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):
Lena Tucker, Assistant to the Eastern Oregon Area Director
Organization/Jurisdiction:
Oregon Department of Forestry, Central Oregon District, Prineville/Sisters Unit
Phone:
FAX:
Email:
541.447.5658
541.447.1469
Ltucker@odf.state.or.us
Project Information
Project Title:
Service and Supply for Sisters Hazardous Fuels Reduction Cooperative Project
Proposed Project Start Date:
Proposed Project End Date:
Fall 2003
Winter 2004/2005
Federal Funding Request:
Total Project Funding:
$85,500
$195,000
Are you submitting multiple projects? If so, please explain and prioritize:
Yes – Priority # 21 in Fuels Treatment Category
Brief Project Description:
This grant is designed to provide needed service and supply support, including personal protective equipment,
tools, vehicle and office support for a cooperative thinning project between: U.S. Forest Service and Oregon
Dept. of Forestry. This project was created to reduce hazardous fuels along the Highway 20 corridor near
Sisters, Oregon. Fuel treatments and demonstrations are conducted on U.S. Forest Service land directly
adjacent to private homes. This project involves a number of agencies including: Oregon Dept. of Forestry,
U.S.Forest Service, Deschutes County Corrections, and Oregon State Dept.of Corrections. The fuels are
treated in a number of ways including: thinning, prescribed burning (under burns, pile burning), and mowing
of units.
This cooperative fuels reduction project has been proven successful over the past four years. This project has
received national attention and awards.
Project Location (latitude/longitude if applicable):
County:
Congressional District:
Sister, OR
Deschutes
District 2
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: This is an interagency cooperative thinning project located in and around the communities of
Sisters, Black Butte Ranch and Camp Sherman, and also along scenic Highway 20 in those areas. This proven
project has been in existence for 4 years.
Implementation: This grant will be used to purchase personal protective equipment, thinning tools and gear,
vehicle support, and clerical support. Due to shortfalls in the ODF budget, this grant funding will be used to
supplement ODF's portion of this cooperative project.
Outcome: The outcome of this project will be to support, through service and supply, the reduction of fire
hazards near high risk communities. The project will also improve the overall forest health in the area. This
thinning project also serves as a model for landowners and encourages them to take action to protect their
personal investments.
Measures and reporting: Thinning acres that are completed are monitored/reported by the USFS. In each unit
there are two monitoring plots which have before and after treatment photos and fuel surveys.
Partners: USFS, Friends of the Metolius, ODF, rural fire departments, Dechutes County Corrections and the
Oregon Dept. of Corrections.
Project relationship to fire plans: The Sisters Ranger District has a strategy to reduce ladder fuels in and
around the urban interface in their district.
Time frames and income: This is an annual project that takes place in late fall/winter and into the spring.
Activities and equipment to be used: Hand thinning with chainsaws. Piling and burning of debris by hand.
Conduct underburning activities.
Amount of acres treated: For the Highway 20 project there has been approximately 7,000 acres treated out of
the 10,000 acre project. The Metolius Heritage project, a companion program which ODF is also involved in,
has nearly 17,000 acres of fuels treatment.
Environmmental, cultural, and historic resources: The land in the project area has been reviewed through the
appropriate federal guidelines by the USFS.
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 grant proposal directly supports on the ground treatment of hazardous fuels adjacent to at-risk
communities in the wildland interface.
B) This grant proposal extends the ability to purchase needed service and supply items to support personnel
involved in on the ground thinning activities. The project includes treatment of hazardous fuels on federal
land directly adjacent to at-risk communities. It links to similar fuels reduction projects taking place on
adjacent private land. Benefits of this project include the reduced likelihood of a catastrophic wildfire
moving from the forest landscape and into a subdivision.
C) The strategy of the Sisters Ranger District is to reduce ladder fuels in and around all of its urban interface
area.
D) There have been many educational programs in this area including: FireFree, Project Impact activities,
FireWise Communities workshop held in Redmond, and various ODF fire prevention activities. The local
community has a great awareness of living with fire in the interface.
E) Through thinning, underburning and brush removal in the pine/mixed conifer ecosystem, this project
restores overstocked stands to a more natural state, thus mitigating many years of fuel buildup.
F) Maintenance will be through continued thinning and underburning on federal and private land.
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) This project provides off season employment for approximately 20 wildland firefighters.
As more landowners seek to manage their fuel loading on private land, they may potentially seek out local
contractors to conduct the fuels treatment and dispose of the debris thus providing more jobs and stimulating
the local economy.
B) This project, which includes the Metolius Basin Project will encourage landowners to explore alternatives
for treating their land. Through informed decision making, landowners will be able to make a positive
change in reducing fire hazards around their homes.
C) About 50% of the fuel put on the ground is used in some manner. Fuels will be utilized for firewood,
fence posts, and hog fuel.
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:
The level of cooperation is high among all agencies and departments responsible for fire prevention and
suppression. Cooperators include: Sisters - Camp Sherman and Black Butte Ranch, Deschutes Project
Impact, Central Oregon Intergovernmental Council, Oregon Department of Forestry, USFS - Sisters Ranger
District, Friends of the Metolius, Deschutes County Corrections, and Oregon Department of Corrections.
Project Impact, is a local interagency partnership that has enhanced pre-existing interagency working
relationships in addressing concerns of wildfire prevention and mitigation and has supported local citizens in
building disaster resistant communities.
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) Private landowners have had opportunities to become involved in the thinning project through the
Metolius Basin project, Homeowner's associations, Friends of the Metolius, and local fire departments.
Support for this project has been positive.
B) Cost-share programs for fuels treatment on adjacent private land in high risk communities, are available to
landowners through ODF National Fire Plan grant programs.
C) Environmental benefits include: reduction of stand densities and fuel levels to improve overall forest
health. Social benefits include: Increased local coordination of groups working together towards creating fire
safe communities. Educational benefits include: Teaching landowners and the public through viewing
completed demonstration plots and treated areas along a scenic highway, how to make fuels treatment
decisions that leave the forest healthier and protect their investments from fire.
Enclosure 3C - Project Work Form
Tasks
Thinning or ladder fuels reduction,
Hand piling, burning
( piles,underburning) road clearing,
Time Frame
Fall of 2003 to Winter of 2004/05
Hwy. 20 project will be a ongoing
project.
Metolius Basin Project will start
summer of 2003.
Responsible Party
Travis Moyer, ODF
Top of Form
Enclosure 4D - Project Budget
Cost Category
Description
Personnel
wages
administrative/ managment
Subtotal
Fringe Benefits
OPE
OPE
Subtotal
Federal
Agency
Applicant
21,748
21,748
Partner 1
Partner 2
Total
60,000
14,000
14,000
9,752
60,000
95,748
25,000
9,752
6,000
6,000
Travel
milage for vehicles
20,000
1,000
Subtotal
20,000
1,000
Equipment
lease 2 pick-ups 2 years
10 chain saws
Subtotal
20,000
6,500
26,500
Supplies
safety supplies
5,000
1,000
Subtotal
5,000
1,000
25,000
40,752
21,000
26,500
6,000
Contractual
Subtotal
Other
fuel/oil
saw maintence(parts)
Subtotal
Total Costs
1,000
1,500
2,500
$85,500
$22,000
1,000
1,500
2,500
5,000
$87,500
$195,000
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.