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:
The Lands Council
Phone:
509-838-4912
FAX:
509-838-5155
Address (Street or P. O. Box, City, State, Zip) :
423 W. 1 st Ave, Suite 240, Spokane, WA 99201
Project Coordinator
Project Coordinator (Name and Title):
Mike Petersen, Executive Director
Organization/Jurisdiction:
The Lands Council
Phone:
509-838-4912
FAX:
509-838-5155
Project Information
Email: tlc@landscouncil.org
Email: mpetersen@landscouncil.org
Project Title:
Rural community wildland prevention and education project
Project Start:
Fourth quarter, 2003
Project End:
Fourth quarter, 2004
Federal Funding Request:
$30,000.00
Total Project Funding:
$36,000.00
Are you submitting multiple projects? If so, please explain and prioritize:
Yes. This grant is complementary with the Colville Community Forest Coalition grant
Brief Project Description:
The Lands Council's plan in 2004 is to continue to expansion of our Wildfire Education Program developed through a grant awarded in 2001. Through the Wildfire Education Program, we are going door-to-door in Northeast Washington to offer a variety of free services; property risk assesment and defensible space plans, FireWise based educational materials, opportunities for plan implementation, and information on fire-resistive building materials and landscaping. In addition, The Lands Council collaborates data-sharing with other agencies (federal, state and county) and non-profit organizations to promote rural community wildfire protection throughout the
Northwest. We plan to continue collecting technical and demographic information through fire planning and community involvement and will partner with agencies to hold workshops. Local participation, coupled with gathered technical information, increases community safety, security and economic development. Our dynamic approach connects neighbors and communities.
Project Location:
Northeast Washington State
County: see below
Congressional District:
WA-5 th
Project Type: Check appropriate project type. More than one type may be checked. If only Box (4) is checked, use Enclosure 4.
(1) Wildland Urban Interface Fuels Project
(2) 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:
Rural communitites in northeastern Washington, including Pend Oreille, Stevens, and Ferry counties.

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:
Address these items as applicable:
 project location
 project implementation
 anticipated outcomes
 measures and reporting
 partners
 project income
 project time frames
 specify types of activities and equipment used
 amount or extent of actions (acres, number of homes, etc)
 environmental, cultural and historical resource requirements
Response: In 2001, we submitted a grant proposal to work in northeast Washington to assist rural communities in reducing wildfire risks, both through education and technical planning assistance. In 2002, we worked in and around these rural communities through door-to-door outreach, county mailings and defensible space presentations. Our outreach has been successful due to our personal outreach methods and an easily understood message. The educational handouts developed early-on have gone through many cycles of modification to reduce technical jargon and increase homeowner buy-in & understanding. Facts of the 2002 fire season are incorporated into the 2003 outreach materials to engage the reader and add relevance to a less understood issue. We continue to collaborate with other agencies and organizations in efforts to promote defensible space and whole community protection. Our offer of implementation through the WA DNR sweetens the deal for homeowners while opening a line of communication from The Lands Council to the
DNR. Through this communication, understanding is built and trust is fostered. We continue to collect information (GPS latitude & longitude, access concerns, etc.) to distribute to rural fire districts and other agencies interested in wildland/urban (rural) interface issues. Drought conditions throughout eastern
Washington will definitely heighten awareness of wildfire threat during spring, summer and fall of 2003.
Outreach during the winter of 2002 shows that homeowners do worry about wildfire in the winter, but are reluctant to apply for wildfire assistance. During the winter of 2002, we circulated a questionnaire to all participants of the program. We received excellent feedback and were rated highly. Most respondents stated that their prior knowledge of defensible space techniques was limited and that after program participation, they felt much more educated about potential wildfire threats. Our program is based on the belief that by helping residents take personal responsibility for private property, we can create fire-adapted communities that have the ability to survive wildfire. Communities that are better prepared for fires also offer a safer and more effective working environment for firefighters. With the protection of private property and communities, public land managers can then make better decisions about wild- and prescribed fire on public lands, providing the opportunity to save money in firefighting costs and do a better job in restoring the health of public lands. This grant application proposes to continue with the work described above within the same counties as we have done in 2002-3 (Stevens and Pend Oreille) and implement a wildland rural interface prevention and eductaion project in Ferry county, as well. In 2004 we anticipate that we will contact at least
500 residents, at their homes, and write at least 100 detailed, specific home fire plans.
Please note that our partnership with the Forest Service, WA DNR and local fire agencies is critical to our success and we hope to enhance this partnership with communities with this grant as well as in a complimentary grant submitted by the Colville Community Forest Coalition. The relationship between that proposal and this one is that some of our door to door outreach with this grant will be in the community watershed area that is proposed in that grant. We will not use any of this grant money for the creation of the community fire plan.

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.
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 fuels treatment plan or 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 (a) leads to, enhances or restores a local fire-adapted ecosystem, and/or (b) mitigates or leads to the mitigation of hazardous fuel conditions.
F.
How will the proposed treatments be maintained over time?
Response: The program reduces wildfire risks to private property by incorporating defensible space tehcniques and education in high risk rural communities of eastern Washington. Outreach target areas include interface lands specifically recommended by the WA DNR for fuels reduction. Through this program, we are increasing homeowner and wildland fire fighter saftey in wildfire situations, as well as reducing the risk of fire spreading from or onto adjacent federal and non-federal lands. Community safety is enhanced as more and more homes within a similar area create defensible space, creating a connected break of fuels and ignition risks, all using the FIREWISE protocol. Our door-to-door efforts allow us to access rural & low-income homeowners that otherwise may not have exposure to this assistance. We encourage homeowners to speak with fellow residents and homeowner associations to increase participation and instigate community action.
By creating survivable communitites, local public land managers should have more flexibility to utilize restoration means for restoring fire-adapted ecosystems, such as prescribed fire. In addition, these areas provide fuel breaks and reduce fuels in areas adjacent to larger tracts of fire-adapted forest. Part of our outreach and planning emphasizes the need for long term maintenance of a defensible space, our individual, signed plans carry a commitment by the homeowner to maintain a defensible space area.
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)?
B.
To what extent will this project be offered to serve as a model for other communities?
C.
Will biomass or forest fuels be utilized; if so, in what manner and how much?
Response: The local economy is positively affected by our program because we continue to create work through our fire planning and outreach. Implementation of these plans is done through a well orchestrated collaboration with the WA DNR and USFS. Several fuels reduction crews are kept busy throughout the season due to the high number of participants. Each plan takes approximately 2 hours to write and we can usually write three in a day. During the 2002 season, just under 100 fireplans were written and over 60 of those plans were implemented by the WA DNR. In addition, our progam creates 1 & 1/2 year-round jobs as a fire planner/educator and grant facilitator. Indirectly, our educational efforts may result in homeowners hiring their own local contractors to do implementation work independently. As far as a model for other communitites, we are actively producing 'show-me' tours for other communities and non-profit organizations while pursuing media coverage in order to encourage similar efforts in other states and communities. Fuels are either removed, utilized as firewood or chipped and scattered during plan implementation. Some homeowners may choose to pile and burn fuels on their own.

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 plan, or creates such a plan. Describe the plan if it already exists.
B.
Explain the level of cooperation, coordination or strategic planning among federal, state, tribal, local government and community organizations. List the cooperators.
Response: The program is based on fuels reduction planning and education in rural communitites as described in the National Fire Plan (NFP). In addition, our planning methods are consistent with other NFP efforts in
NE Washington, such as FireSafe Spokane. Our education program utilizes federal and state science & information including research done by Jack Cohen and the Pacific Wildfire Coordinating Group. We coordinate with other rural fire protection efforts in northeastern Washington through collaboration with the
WA DNR and by maintaining a high level of consistency in planning methods and through outreach methods.
The information we collect through our outreach and education efforts is also valuable to rural fire districts and we have been involved in an ongoing cooperative effort to share information and collection protocols.
We have refined the geographic scope and data set collection through meetings with the WA DNR, Forest
Service, FireSafe Spokane, WA State University, and the Colville National Tribe. We will continue to collect other information that Fire Districts, county, state and federal agencies have deemed useful in fire protection efforts.
4.
Expanding Community Participation. (15 Points)
A.
To what extent have interested people and communities been provided an opportunity to become informed and involved in this proposal?
B.
Describe the extent of local support for the project, including any cost-sharing arrangements.
C.
What are the environmental, social and educational benefits of the project?
Response: Our door-to-door contact provides an opportunity for assistance to the people who were missed in mailings, unable to attend workshops or who have yet to be contacted. Support for the program has been excellent, both from agency personnel and members of the public. We have collaborated on our workshops with Conservation Districts, WA DNR, USFS and FireSafe Spokane. Rural Fire District volunteers continue to show support for our work as it makes their job safer and easier. Environmental benefits include a shift in public perception of wildfire, fuels reduction in areas of high risk and better planning with regards to rural development and sprawl. Social benefits include protection of homes, lives, neighborhoods, community participation and more efficient financial planning and spending. Educational benefits include opportunitites to learn about how fire spreads, fire concious landscaping, fire ecology and what it means to live in rural areas within the forest.

Enclosure 3C - Project Work Form
Tasks
Continued rural community outreach (door-todoor) contacts in Pend Oreille and Stevens counties
01/04- 12/04
Time Frame Responsible Party
The Lands Council
The Lands Council Continued fire planning (development of
'Home Survivability Plans') for defensible space in Pend Oreille and Stevens counties.
02/04-11/04
School presentations re: defensible space and fire ecology in Pend Oreille, Stevens and
Ferry county schools.
02/04-11/04
Continued collaboration with the WA DNR to focus on community areas of high need through scoping and mapping meetings
03/04-11/04
The Lands Council
The Lands Council
Continue to collect GPS location information as well as access information for other grants and for rural Fire Districts. Distribute data to
Fire Districts periodically for them to update their own databases with.
03/04-11/04
Facilitate implementation of 'Home
Survivability Plans' with the Washington State
DNR and FireSafe Spokane.
07/02-11/03
Report to Forest Service
As needed
The Lands Council
The Lands Council
The Lands Council

Enclosure 3D Project Budget
Cost Category
Description
Federal
Agency Applicant Partner 1 Partner 2 Total
Personnel
Subtotal
Fringe Benefits
Subtotal
Travel
Subtotal
Equipment
Subtotal
Supplies
Subtotal
Contractual
Subtotal
Other
Subtotal
Total Costs
Project (Program) Income 1
(using deductive alternative)
$17,000.00
$17,000.00
$0.00
$0.00
$2,000.00
$2,000.00
$200.00
$200.00
$0.00
$0.00
$8,000.00
$8,000.00
$2,800.00
$2,800.00
$30,000.00
$0.00
$0.00
$0.00
$0.00
$0.00
$0.00
$0.00
$0.00
$3,000.00
$3,000.00
$0.00
$0.00
$1500.00
$1,500.00
$0.00
$0.00
$0.00
$0.00
$1,500.00
$1,500.00
$0.00
$0.00
$6,000.00
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.
$20,000.00
$0.00
$0.00
$20,000.00
$0.00
$0.00
$0.00
$0.00
$3,500.00
$0.00
$0.00
$3,500.00
$200.00
$0.00
$0.00
$200.00
$0.00
$0.00
$0.00
$0.00
$9,500.00
$0.00
$0.00
$9,500.00
$2,800.00
$0.00
$0.00
$2,800.00
$36,000.00
$0.00
$0.00
$0.00
$0.00
$0.00
$0.00
$0.00
$0.00
$0.00