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:
Lomakatsi Restoration Project (LRP)
Phone:
FAX:
Email:
(541) 488-0208
(541) 488-4909
Lomakatsi@hotmail.com
Address (Street or P. O. Box, City, State, Zip):
Project Coordinator
Project Coordinator (Name and Title):
Oshana Catranides, Executive Director
Organization/Jurisdiction:
501 © 3
Phone:
FAX:
Email:
(541) 488-0208
(541) 488-4909
oshanac@hotmail.com
Project Information
Project Title:
Anderson Creek Road Fuels Reduction Project
Proposed Project Start Date:
December 2003
Proposed Project End Date:
November 2004
Federal Funding Request:
$ 228,002
Total Project Funding:
$247,102
Are you submitting multiple projects? If so, please explain and prioritize: (1)Colestin Road Fuels Reduction Project, phase II; (2)
West Williams Community Fire Hazard Reduction Project; (3) Siskiyou Mountain Park Fuels Reduction Project; (4) Anderson Creek
Road Fuels Reduction Project; (5) Illinois Valley Fuels Reduction Partnership Project
Brief Project Description: Talent
Lomakatsi will reduce fuels on private properties along Anderson Creek Road, adjoining cul-de-sac
driveways, and selected home sites, for a growing list of 25 landowners who have requested
involvement in this project. Lomakatsi is networking with Jackson County Fire District 5, which
covers the Talent area, and Chief Dan Marshall to organize community meetings and develop
strategies to address fuels issues in this critical area. Defensible space treatments will be
considered in areas where homes are in close proximity to roadside fuel treatments, or at the end of
driveways which have no other escape / access routes. Anderson Creek road provides critical
access through the WUI areas which link the Talent vicinity to Little Applegate Road in the
Applegate area. This was an important access/egress during road closures during the Squire Fire in
2002.
Project Location (latitude/longitude if applicable):
County:
Congressional District:
Talent, Oregon
Jackson
52
Project Type: Check appropriate project type. More than one type may be checked. If only Box (4) is checked, use Enclosure 4.
(1)
(2)
X 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
Project is located outside of Talent city-limits, in the WUI west of the town. Project areas will
include private properties along Anderson Creek Road, adjacent access/egress routes and cul-de-sac
driveways. A growing list of twenty five landowners have already signed-on in support of this proposal.
Anderson Creek Rd. runs west from Talent through the WUI to join Little Applegate Rd, creating access to
and from the Applegate Valley (please see attached maps). Recent summer wildfires came critically close to
these areas during the past two years, during which Anderson Creek Rd became a critical transportation route
for rural residents. (Quartz Creek Fire, Squire Fire).
Project implementation will involve the manual removal of dense roadside fuel loads for an average of 50 feet
back from roadside easements on private properties along Anderson Creek Road. Treatments will include
some thinning and defensible space treatments for adjacent home sites where fuel load contiguity could
compromise effectiveness of roadside treatments. Project will be implemented in cooperation with
landowners and the Jackson County Fire District 5, and ODF. Lomakatsi will employ a local workforce and
will also draw employees from the pool of trained interns who participated in Lomakatsi’s “Fuels Reduction
Workforce Training Programs’, funded by the National Fire Plan during 2002 and 2003.
Anticipated Outcomes will be decreased roadside fuel loads on private properties, increased fire safety,
improved firefighting access, decreased fire intensity and improved house site safety due to reduced fuel
loads. It is also anticipated that implementation will increase community support and participation in
organizing and implementing future fuels treatment projects. Jackson County Fire District-5 Chief Dan
Marshall is willing to assist in making presentations at community meetings, which will increase the fire
district’s direct involvement with the local community.
Measures and reporting: Areas, homes, and acreages treated will be mapped and recorded with Jackson
County Fire District 5 and Oregon Department of Forestry, to be included in area fuels reduction and fire
fighting planning and project mapping. Other measures and reporting will be concurrent with requirements of
funding agency.
Response:
Interagency Partners include Jackson County Fire District 5 (JCFD-5), ODF, BLM, and Mystery
Creek/Anderson Creek Homeowners Association, Jackson County Road Department.
Community Fire Plans: Lomakatsi is working with landowners and JCFD-5 to create the first example in the
Talent area of a neighborhood organized community-based fire risk reduction project involving contiguous
properties.
Project time frame is projected to be one year from inception.
Specific Activity will include the reduction of fuel loads near critical ignition points and strategic areas that
will benefit the residential area and adjacent federal lands, involving the manual cutting, removal, piling,
chipping, and sometimes burning of fuel loads and woody debris in small hand-piles.
Equipment used will include chainsaws, pole chainsaws, loppers, drip torches, fire equipment, and sometimes
chippers / haulers.
Amount or Extent of Actions: Project will reduce fuels on 100 acres of land, using strategies that will identify
critical fuel loads along roadsides and near house sites where heavy fuel loads are adjacent to or in close
proximity to the road side treatments.
Project will comply with environmental, cultural and historical resource requirements, including NEPA,
SHIPO, and any other permitting requirements necessary.
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 project
reduces fuel loads along Anderson Creek Road, a highly traveled roadway which passes
through the WUI of Talent, Oregon. The road provides a direct thoroughfare from rural Talent to Little
Applegate Road in the Applegate Valley, and was used as an escape route from the Applegate area during the
Squire Fire in 2002. Reducing fuel loads along this route will reduce fire risk in this high hazard area and
community. B) The project protects communities by providing a safer transportation route through the WUI
areas. The roadside thinning project will also benefit resources on adjacent federal lands by reducing fuel
loads and fire risk, improving transportation abilities for fire equipment and fire mitigation. C) Thru the
project, LRP will work with landowners and the Fire Dept. to create the first highly-visible community fire
strategy and fuels treatment plan in the Talent WUI area. D) The community involved with this proposal has
attended an educational fire ecology/fire risk reduction workshop presented by Lomakatsi, based on Firewise
strategies and goals. E) The project will significantly reduce hazardous fuel loads in order to enhance the fire
resiliency of the area’s fire adapted ecosystems. F) After initial fuels treatments, follow-up treatments become
more affordable to landowners, contractors, and for project proposals, since the bulk of the heaviest work was
done during the first fuels reduction treatment. JCFD-5 will be more intricately involved in the community as
a result of this proposal, opening the potential for partnerships with the fire district and ODF to create ongoing programs to maintain treatments. LRP can also continue to network and cooperate with landowners,
funders, and programs that will maintain the benefits of the fuels reduction work.
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: The proposal
will lead to the improvement of the local economy by creating 8-10 seasonal local
jobs. Lomakatsi has performed private-land restoration projects on private properties in the Talent area for
over four years. Lomakatsi develops programs and seeks private and federal restoration contracts to provide
sustainable year-round employment to its staff and to other community members. Lomakatsi creates yearround work through programs such as OWEB, USFWS Jobs-in-the-Woods, ODF defensible space programs,
as well as through educational projects. LRP also develops private foundation grants to groups such as the
Alliance of Forest Workers and Harvesters, the Norman Foundation, Tides Foundation etc. This project will
increase the skills needed to link Lomakatsi’s workforce to other fuels mitigation and fire restoration projects
in and around the Squire and Quartz fire areas. B) Lomakatsi bases its work on its “Ecological Principles for
Fuel Load Reduction and Restoration” (attached), an available guideline for landowners and communities to
use as a model to outline fuels reduction strategies and programs. These model guidelines have been widely
distributed, and have been posted on various websites. C) Biomass will be dealt with at the discretion of
landowners. Arrangements may be made for the local ‘Biomass-1’ plant to pick up excess vegetation and
materials on contiguous properties to be used as a fuel source.
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).
A) This project will create the first example in the Talent area of a neighborhood organized
community-based fire risk reduction project involving contiguous properties along an important
transportation route in the wildland urban interface. Landowners in the Anderson Creek Road area contacted
Lomakatsi to request assistance for organizing the strategies for this project. Lomakatsi called upon JCFD-5
to gauge their receptivity, and received a pledge of support, strong encouragement, and a willingness to
become directly involved in promoting the project. The involvement of JCFD-5 will begin the process of
directly integrating the community into the creation and implementation of fire district goals for fuels
reduction. The implementation of this project and the intention of its outreach is to create the momentum
needed for increased landowner participation in fuels reduction programs. With the inception of Oregon’s
Senate Bill 330, and the new citations and fines scheduled for non-compliant landowners with fuel load
problems, this project should inspire the creation of individual and group strategies and plans for addressing
critical fuel load density problems in the present and in the future.
B) Lomakatsi, with its unique abilities as a community organizing entity, is using its networking history,
success and program development skills for coordinating this project with landowners, local governments,
Oregon Department of Forestry, JCFD-5, Jackson County Road Department, BLM, and other partners who
are sure to seek involvement as the project develops.
Response:
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?
Residents in the Anderson Creek Road area organized a landowners association which contacted
Lomakatsi to discuss project development potential. Word of mouth in the neighborhood is increasing the
community interest at a rapid pace. More neighborhood meetings are planned, more information is being
exchanged, and the local involvement in project development is increasing as the potential for the
implementation of strategic fuels reduction practices becomes more of a comprehensive reality to this
community. B) This proposal evolved out of local support for Lomakatsi’s ecological approach to fuels
reduction, which is showcased to the community through LRP’s previous projects in the community. Local
support includes private landowners, Jackson County Fire District-5, ODF, World Wildlife Fund/Klamath
Siskiyou Region, and local groups and affiliates. C) The environmental benefits of this project will result
from fire-surrogate thinning treatments which reduce hazardous fuels to restore forest health and fire
resiliency. Socially, this project begins a much-needed process for involving the community in the creation of
partnerships and strategies to mitigate future fire hazards. There are also social and educational benefits to the
project resulting from fire-ecology and educational workshops based on Lomakatsi’s Ecological Principles
for Fuel Load Reduction and Restoration. These simple principles are an educational and social tool for
communicating the importance of fuels reduction, bringing ecology and fire science into an understandable
format for landowners and individuals. This educational tool creates multiple benefits in its ability to create
understanding and support for the implementation of fuels reduction practice which benefit individuals and
communities, as well as the forests, watersheds, and natural resources we all depend on.
Response: A)
Enclosure 3C - Project Work Form
Tasks
Time Frame
Responsible Party
*COORDINATION OVERVIEW
Collaboration with Agencies
Contact Project Partner Organizations and
Identify High Risk Properties
Within 50 days of Project Start-Up
LOMAKATSI
In collaboration with:
JCFD-5
ODF
Landowners
Homeowners Association
COMMUNITY OUTREACH
--Media and Announcement of Project
--Initial Community Meetings.
Within 60 Days of Project Start-Up
Lomakatsi
With in-kind assistance from
Homeowners Association
JCFD-5
ODF
BLM
LANDOWNER OUTREACH
--Contact Property Owners
--Expand Landowner Participation through
Education and Outreach
--Initial Site Visits w/ up to 40 Landowners
Within 70 Days of Project Start-Up
LOMAKATSI
JCFD-5
PRESCRIPTION DEVELOPMENT
-Identify Treatment Areas
-Inventory Vegetation and Fuel Density
-Create Fuel Treatment Plan
-Agency Collaboration on Treatment Design
-Landowner Review and Approval of Plans
Within 90 - 120 Days of Project Start-Up
LOMAKATSI
Overview to include:
JCSD-5
ODF
BLM
Homeowners Association
BEGIN IMPLEMENTATION PROCESS
--Permitting Processes / Prescription Review
--Community Meeting To Review Project
Scope
-- Organize Community Volunteer Work Days
Within 120-150 Days of Project Start-Up LOMAKATSI
IMPLEMENT PROJECT
--Coordinate Work Crews, Contractors,
Consultants, Instructors, Inspectors
-- Begin On-The-Ground Work
--On-Site Community Demonstration
Workshops
Within 150- 240 Days of Project Start-Up LOMAKATSI
PERIODIC INSPECTION AND REVIEW
--Coordinate w/ Agencies
Within Days 200 days of Project Start-Up LOMAKATSI
JCFD-5
BLM
ODF
FINAL SUMMARY REPORT
Presentation of Final Report To Community
and Agencies
Within 360 Days of Project Start-Up
LOMAKATSI
Enclosure 3D Project Budget
Anderson Creek Road Fuels Reduction Project
Cost Category
Description
Personnel
Project Coordinator
Assistant Coordinator
Forest technician
Subtotal
Fringe Benefits
Coordinator
Technician
Subtotal
Federal
Agency
Applicant
Partner 1
Lomakatsi
6,500
3,200
6,200
15,900
Partner 2
Total
Fire Dist. 5 Jackson Rd Dept
1,000
800
1,000
800
6,500
5,000
6,200
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17,700
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3,395
2,170
5,565
3,395
2,170
5,565
Travel
Site visits
Crew transportation -project
Subtotal
800
2,000
2,800
200
200
200
200
Equipment
Chainsaws and accessories
Miscellaneous equipment
Subtotal
4,500
1,800
6,300
7,500
800
8,300
Supplies
Gas, oil, chains, repair
Maintenance of tools and vehicles
Misc. Supplies
Subtotal
5,200
2,400
1,200
8,800
Contractual
Implement fuels reduction
Instructors, education, events
Subtotal
Other
Prescription/development
Administration
Subtotal
Total Costs
160,000
1,200
161,200
1,200
2,000
3,200
12,000
2,600
14,600
1,000
5,000
1,000
5,000
1,200
1,200
300
300
7,000
20,437
27,437
500
600
500
600
228,002
12,200
1,900
160,000
2,700
162,700
8,100
20,437
28,537
5,000
Project (Program) Income1
(using deductive alternative)
1
5,200
8,400
1,200
14,800
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.
247,102
Blue line along Anderson Creek Rd indicates approximate area where 25 landowners have already signed
up in support of this proposal
Anderson Creek Road passes though the WUI to intersect Little Applegate Rd.
MAPS OF ANDERSON CREEK ROAD
Working with Nature: Lomakatsi’s Forest Restoration Philosophy
Ecological Principles for Fuel Load Reduction and Restoration
Nature does the real restoration work. We are working to assist in the recovery of impacted
ecosystems without causing additional problems…Here are some of the things we have learned:
~Act conservatively. Don't change things too much at once.
-- Respect what is already on site.
-- Retain old and large trees - the most fire resistant component of the forest.
-- Consider broader landscape level conditions when planning site-specific restoration activities.
--Implement heaviest thinning treatments near high risk areas, including house sites, roads and
driveways
-- Design and implement treatments for site-specific conditions. Adjust ecological thinning
prescriptions and treatments to accommodate various eco-types and forest stands.
-- Plan restoration thinning treatments over time; follow up the initial treatment using multiple
entries in intervals over a several year period, allowing the forest to adjust to the alteration of the
vegetation.
-- Maintain shaded areas and over-story canopy cover in mixed conifer forests. (Adjust for
differences in regional biodiversity, as in pine-oak savanna)
-- Retain a diversity of tree and plant species.
-- Maintain uneven-aged stands and representatives of all age classes, to retain a diverse, multilayered forest structure.
--As a goal when revegetating a site, plant only native species.
Include indigenous land use practices and traditional ecological knowledge as an historic guide and
reference point in ecosystem restoration.
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-- Use prescribed burning to restore fire whenever possible. Plan burning treatments carefully, and
do all necessary planning for ecological considerations and the safety of human communities.
-- Following prescribed fire, reseed selected areas with native grasses to enhance site conditions.
~Remember the wildlife.
-- Leave some areas untreated, for the birds and wildlife using the area.
-- Thin in a mosaic pattern- leaving thickets, maintaining natural openings and meadows, and
enhancing older forest stands by maintaining canopy cover.
-- Leave some small piles of cut material un-burned, as habitat for wildlife.
-- Leave buffers of undisturbed vegetation in streamside riparian areas.
-- Retain snags for wildlife habitat. Chart their locations for monitoring, and fire safety precautions.
~Remember the soil.
Leave some of the cut materials on the ground, perpendicular to the slope, to catch upslope erosion
and contribute to future soil.
~Remember the people.
-- Listen to residents and neighbors. They know the ways in which each site is unique.
-- Match site diversity with worker diversity. Different cultures each have their own ways of
understanding the complex diversity of nature.
-- Train workers about ecological principles, and how to see the special characteristics of each place.
-- Involve the workforce in the design, planning, and monitoring of restoration projects.
-- Educate the restoration workforce about forest and fire ecology, watershed and riparian function,
botany etc.
-- Pay workers according to their training, experience, and quality of work.
-- Pay workers well, and listen to them. Happy, respected people do the best work.
-- Look for useable material to carry from the site for poles, furniture, spoons, fuels, etc.
~Learn
-- Keep complete records of prior conditions, work accomplished, and the time, money, and people
that it took. Watch & document what happens over time.
-- Review information about similar sites before deciding how to treat new ones.
Lomakatsi is the Hopi word for ‘Life in Balance’