2004 WUI Community Assistance Grant Applications:
A Quick Profile
The National Fire Plan interagency community assistant grants team received 142 grant
applications on or before February 21st, 2003 requesting a total of $23,843,952. Of those,
11 of the applications (representing $1,115,037 of the requests) were ineligible; letters
were sent encouraging the 11 applicants to partner with other organizations in their
communities to develop viable grant projects for the 2005 grant cycle.
Interagency working groups composed of representatives from BLM, FS, F&W, BIA,
NPS, Oregon Department of Forestry, Washington Department of Natural Resources,
U.S. Department of Energy, OSU Forest Products extension, Oregon Economic
Community Development Department, Oregon and Washington State Fire Marshals’
offices, and regional non-profit organizations reviewed the remaining 131 grant
applications in each of four project categories:
WUI Fuels Treatments - 62 applications requesting
Prevention and Education – 23 applications requesting
Planning and Monitoring – 27 applications requesting
Utilization and Marketing – 19 applications requesting
Total Requested:
$15,651,528
$1,975,657
$3,565,881
$1,535,849
$22,728,915
The grants team met on March 20th to discuss projects ranked by each working group and
to finalize its funding recommendations, developing a list of 50 projects recommended
for funding in the 2004 fiscal year. We will not know whether these projects can actually
be funded until the Bureau of Land Management and Forest Service learn their 2004
budget numbers – no earlier than fall 2004.
The following is a list of the 50 proposed projects that the grants team recommends for
funding in fiscal year 2004:
14
Keep Oregon Green Highway Sign Program
(KOGHSP)
Keep Oregon Green Highway Sign Program
(KOGHSP)
Wildfire Watch
Community-wide Wildland Urban Interface Fuels
Reduction and/or Modification
21
23
Building markets and business capacity to support
wildfire risk reduction treatments
Ashland Wildfire Mitigation Project
26
WSU/Pend Oreille Master Gardener Forestry and
Firewise Educators
28
Curry County WUI Assessment
9
10
12
Keep Oregon Green
Keep Oregon Green
Yakima County
Crooked River Ranch Rural Fire
Protection District
Sustainable Northwest’s Healthy
Forests, Healthy Communities
Partnership
City of Ashland
Pend Oreille County (WSU/Pend
Oreille County Cooperative
Extension)
Curry County Collaborative WUI
Assessment Partnership
29
32
33
35
37
38
49
51
55
56
58
64
61
62
65
66
67
68
69
75
80
Wildland Urban Interface Fuels Reduction
Columbia Gorge Wildfire Preparedness Project
Supplement
Kittitas County Firewise 2003-1 Liberty Fuels
Reduction
Dry Forest Mechanized Fuels Treatment TrialsAshland Watershed/Blue Mountains
Wildland Urban Interface Fire Prevention Community
Education Programs for Central Oregon
I’m Concerned about Wildfires” in Northeast Oregon
campaign
Chenowith & Browns Creek Defensible Space and
Fuels Reduction
Rowena Drainage, Seven Mile Hill Defensible Space
and Fuels Reduction
Chiloquin RFD Fuel Reduction
Keno RFD Fuel Reduction
Fuel Treatment Extension in Baker and Union
Counties
Applegate Watershed Community Fuel Reduction
(AWCFR)
Jackson & Josephine Counties Strategic WUI Fuel
Reduction Project
Josephine County Community Fuel Reduction
West Williams Community Fire Hazard Reduction
Project
Anderson Creek Road Fuels Reduction Project
Siskiyou Mountain Park Fuels Reduction Project
Colestin Road Fuels Reduction Project, phase II
Illinois Valley Fuels Reduction Partnership Project
WILDLAND-URBAN INTERFACE AREA RISK
REDUCTION
Rural community wildland prevention and education
project
81
Fuels for Schools and more! in Dayton, Washington
83
FireFree 2003-2004 Campaign
93
Leavenworth Neighborhoods Fire Education and
Fuels Reduction
Slate/Applegate Fuel Reduction and Utilization
Project
Expanding the Demonstration of Small-diameter
Roundwood Construction for Outdoor Amenities
105
Glenwood and George Ville Fuels and Defensible
Space
85
88
Illinois Valley Community
Response Team
Washington State University
Kittitas County Community
Development Services
The Watershed Research and
Training Center
Oregon Department of Forestry
Oregon Department of Forestry
Oregon Department of Forestry
Oregon Department of Forestry
Oregon Department of Forestry
Oregon Department of Forestry
Oregon Department of Forestry
Oregon Department of Forestry
Oregon Department of Forestry
Oregon Department of Forestry
Lomakatsi Restoration Project
Lomakatsi Restoration Project
Lomakatsi Restoration Project
Lomakatsi Restoration Project
Lomakatsi Restoration Project
Clark County Fire Protection
District No. 2
The Lands Council
Blue Mountain Resource
Conservation and Development
Council
Deschutes Board of County
Commissioners
a) Chelan County Fire District #3 &
b) Chelan County Conservation
District on behalf of the
Leavenworth Neighborhoods
Applegate River Watershed
Council (ARWC)
Pomegranate Center
Washington State Department of
Natural Resources – Resource
Protection Division
Cle Elum Ridge Fuel Break Compartmentalize
Washington State Department of
Natural Resources – Resource
Protection Division
Yakama Area Critical Fuels Reduction
Washington State Department of
Natural Resources – Resource
Protection Division
Wildfire Awareness Week
Washington State Department of
Natural Resources – Resource
Protection Division
112
Fire Prevention Education
Washington State Department of
Natural Resources – Resource
Protection Division
115
Hazardous fuels reduction and fire planning in NE
Washington Communities
Washington State Department of
Natural Resources – Resource
Protection Division
118
Kalispel Indian Reservation/Pend Oreille Fuels
Reduction Project
Washington State Department of
Natural Resources – Resource
Protection Division
107
109
110
122
Spokane Indian Reservation Fuels Reduction Project
127
COPWRR Phase III (re-submit)
128
132
Upper Deschutes Basin Community Fire Plans
Fuel reduction and Wildfire awareness through
Education and Prevention
136
Southern Oregon Small Diameter Utilization Yard
Trial
137
138
HUKILL HOLLOW HELPING HAND
Defensible Space Education
139
141
District Survey on Defensible Space Education
Seven Basins Neighborhood Fire Planning Project
Washington State Department of
Natural Resources – Resource
Protection Division
Central Oregon Intergovernmental
Council
Watershed Research and Training
Center
Yakima County Fire Protection
District 5
Southwest Oregon Resource
Conservation and Development
Council
REACH, Inc. Ecosystem
Workforce Training Program
(EWT)
Lyle School District #406
Klickitat Fire Protection District
#13, Appleton
Seven Basins Watershed Council
Please call Lauren Maloney at (503) 808-6587 if you have questions.