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:
Forestry Action Committee
Phone:
FAX:
Email:
541-592-4098
541-592-4010
forestryaction@cavenet.com
Address (Street or P. O. Box, City, State, Zip):
P O Box 1872, Cave Junction, OR 97523
Project Coordinator
Project Coordinator (Name and Title):
Susan Chapp, President
Organization/Jurisdiction:
Forestry Action Committee
Phone:
FAX:
Email:
541-592-4098
541-592-4010
forestryaction@cavenet.com
Project Information
Project Title:
Rural Residential Fire Safety Management Plans
Project Start:
Project End:
June 1, 2002
June 1, 2004
Federal Funding Request:
Total Project Funding:
$15,000.00
$19,000.00
Are you submitting multiple projects? If so, please explain and prioritize:
one project
Brief Project Description:
This will build on the Illinois Valley Community Fire Plan funding we received for 2002 through
2004. There will be several training work shops for the whole community on how to do a fire safety
management plan for rural residential properties of 10 acres and under. Two to three individuals
who received training with the Lomakatsi Restoration Project and who are already doing defensible
space assessments for the Illinois Valley Community Fire Plan Project will attend these workshops.
They will become the fire safety technicians and do fire management plans for 10 acre and under
properties. Priority will be given to landowners who participate in neighborhood planning meetings,
and who have accomplished their defensible space to ODF's satisfaction. ODF will give rebates for
the defensible space, and if they get the funding, will do the same for work done according to the
management plans.
Project Location:
County:
Congressional District:
Illinois Valley
Josephine
#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:
Illinois River Basin, Josephine County, Southwest Oregon
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
 partners
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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
This grant proposal broadens the scope of the Illlinois Valley Community Fire Plan project. We
already have Fire Plan funding to (1) hold general educational meetings; (2) hold neighborhood strategy and
assessment meetings; (3) hire a community coordinator and a GIS coordinator; and (4) pay workers to do
defensible space assessments. The Forestry Action Committee now has its 501(c)3 status and no longer
needs the fiscal sponsorship of the IVCRT when requesting Fire Plan funding.
This grant proposal broadens the scope of the Illinois Valley Community Fire Plan project to include funds
for several work shops on how to do a fire safety work plan for the entire property for rural residential
properties of 10 or less acres, and the funds to hire two to three people to do these plans for small landowners
in the wildland/urban interface in the Illinois Valley. Priority for management plans will be given to
landowners who have participated in neighborhood meetings, and who have successfully completed their
defensible space assessments.
The workshops will be open to the whole community and should serve to increase the general knowledge
and interest of the community relative to hazardous fuels reduction and balanced land management in the
rural/urban interface. Workers who began with training by the Lomakatsi Restoration Project, and continued
with defensible space training and work with the Forestry Action Committee, will expand their job skills into
doing fire safety management plans for small properties.
This proposal fills a niche to provide mini management plansfor 10 acre and under properties that is not
currently being filled. The Forestry Action Committee (FAC) will provide defensible space assessments and
whole property work plans, and ODF will check off when work has been completed, and provide
reimbursement to the landowners upon approval, dependent on the availability of funds. Landowners who
participate in neighborhood planning will be given priority for defensible space assessments. Those who
follow through and do defensible space work to the satisfaction of ODF will be given priority to be provided
with full property plans.
Any knowledge acquired by FAC through these activities regarding the type and quantity of materials to
be generated locally by fuels reduction work will be shared with the Illinois Valley Community Response
Team (IVCRT) to help them develop strategies and on-the-ground projects to utilize these materials and
strengthen local industry.
We will continue to partner with Lomakatsi, who is asking for funds to do more demonstration projects
and worker training in the Illinois Valley. The Oregon State Weed Board is a new partner. We include
noxious weed assessment, strategy and mapping in the neighborhood meetings. The National Network of
Forest Practicioners gave FAC a grant to bring two Hoopa Indians to the valley this spring to teach us the
traditional Hoopa Way of Fire. The Grants Pass Resource Area of the Bureau of Land Management is
partnering to develop neighborhood strategies in the many checkerboard areas of the valley where they are
neighbors. The Illinois Valley Ranger District of the Siskiyou National Forest is partnering to provide
technical support and to print GIS overlays. We work always with the Oregon Department of Forestry to find
our productive niche, and who will sign off and reimburse landowners regarding defensible space and fuels
reduction on whole properties. As we learn the patterns of what materials will come off people's properties,
the Illinois Valley Community Response Team will develop marketing strategies and the ability of local
businesses to utilize these materials.
Response:
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:
We will offer management plans to rural/residential property owners in the wildland/urban interface in the
Illinois Valley who have 10 acres or less. These plans will tell owners how to reduce fuels loads and make
their properties fire safe, and provide guidance on long-term management. Priority will be given to people
who participate in our neighborhood strategizing, and who then implement their defensible space checklist to
ODF's satisfaction. Where private lands abut USFS or BLM lands, joint strategizing and implementation to
enhance mutual fire safety will be encouraged. Training and workshops, native American and otherwise, will
be held for work plan writers and the general public on how to achieve fire safety and a fire-adapted
ecosystem. We work closely with ODF to make sure that all aspects of our program, including education,
strategy and work plans, meet the standards of their programs.
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 Community and GIS coordinators are receiving on-the-job training and skills development that
increase their job capacities. Lomakatsi as a partner takes local woods workers and gives them further
training. FAC in cooperation with ODF provides defensible space training. With this project proposal FAC
will provide further training to do small property work plans and pay workers to do these plans. We are
providing skills development step by step for good learning and development. This new training and work
will be offered to two to three people. Together with the two coordinators this makes 5 new jobs which are
part time but not necessarily seasonal. Many people in the valley prefer part time work. Workers who do
well with small property work plans may discover the ability to move on to doing stewardship management
plans. There is an on-going demand for people who can write land management plans.
We will work with the IVCRT to identify species, type and amount of woody material generated by the
proposal, so that the IVCRT can develop economic utilization of the materials.
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:
Several different entities will be doing defensible space assessments, and we will all need to interface with
each other to make sure we are not making multiple landowner contacts. BLM is committed to participation
as neighbors in strategy development. The National Network of Forest Practicioners is funding a project
where two Hoopa Indians will come to the Illinois Valley and do a workshop on the Hoopa Way of Fire. The
IVCRT is a partner and fiscal sponsor with the fire plan funding. Now that we have our 501(c)3 status and
can apply for our own grant, our partnership is one of FAC tracking supply of woody materials, and the
IVCRT developing commercial utilization. The FS will provide GIS technical support and overlay printing.
The land management plans that ODF administers are for properties of 10 and more acres. We will fill the
niche for smaller properties to provide woodland and fuels reduction management plans. ODF will sign off
on defensible space and entire property fuels reduction work we provide guidance for, and they will provide
the rebates to property owners. We will work with Lomakatsi to provide publicity, properties and workers for
their demonstration projects and worker training in the Illinois Valley.
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:
FAC attended a meeting hosted by Paul Galloway, USFS, to determine both support for our proposal and
how to shape it for maximum synergy with other fire efforts. We have had requests from the community for
the fire management plan service this proposal will provide. If we get funding, then there will be media and
neighborhood meeting announcements about the availability of this fire management plan service.
People in the community are quite interested in any services which will help them increase their fire
safety. The Illinois Valley Ranger District provides FAC with an office. The project administrator volunteers
her time.
Two to three local residents will acquire job training and experience in writing fire and mini-ecosystem
management plans for properties of 10 acres and less. Landowners will acquire balanced guidance for how to
manage their properties for long term fire safety and ecosystem health. Since we will prioritize landowners
who participate in neighborhood fire strategy and assessment meetings, these fire management plans will be
another step in helping landowners plan and act not just as individual owners, but as members of a larger
strategy. There are educational benefits in the fire safety technician training, neighborhood meetings, and in
doing management plans for landowners. We always do media coverage.
Enclosure 3C - Project Work Form
Tasks
Time Frame
Responsible Party
Fire safety technician training to write fire
management plans for 10 acres and less
properties
2002 - 2003
FAC - Project Administrator line up
technical training
Media coverage
2002 - 06/2004
FAC - Project Administrator and
Community Coordinattor
Fire safety technicians attend neighborhood
meetings
2002 - 2003
FAC - Fire Safety Technicians
Write fire management plans
2002 - 04/2004
FAC - Fire Safety Technicians
GIS mapping
2002 - 04/2004
FAC - GIS Coordinator
Final Report
06/2004
FAC - Project Administrator
Enclosure 3D Project Budget
Cost Category
Description
Personnel
Grant Administrator
Technical Support
Subtotal
Federal
Agency
Applicant
Partner 1
Partner 2
Total
$500.00
$500.00
$0.00
$3,000.00
$1,500.00
$4,500.00
$0.00
$0.00
$0.00
$0.00
$0.00
$0.00
$0.00
$0.00
$0.00
$0.00
$0.00
$0.00
$0.00
$0.00
$0.00
$0.00
$0.00
$300.00
$100.00
$400.00
$0.00
$0.00
$12,100.00
$2,000.00
$14,100.00
$3,000.00
$500.00
$500.00
$3,000.00
$500.00
$500.00
Fringe Benefits
Subtotal
$0.00
$0.00
$0.00
Travel
Subtotal
$0.00
$0.00
$0.00
Equipment
Subtotal
$0.00
Supplies
General Office
Map & Plotting Materials.
Subtotal
$300.00
$100.00
$400.00
Contractual
Fire Safety Technicians
Coordination, Bookkeeping
Subtotal
$12,100.00
$2,000.00
$14,100.00
$0.00
$0.00
$0.00
$0.00
$0.00
$0.00
Other
Subtotal
$0.00
$0.00
$0.00
$0.00
$0.00
$0.00
$0.00
$0.00
Total Costs
$15,000.00
$3,000.00
$500.00
$500.00
$19,000.00
Project (Program) Income1
(using deductive alternative)
1
$0.00
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.