Enclosure 4A - Project Summary Form
NATIONAL FIRE PLAN COMMUNITY ASSISTANCE AND WILDLAND URBAN INTERFACE PROJECTS
Application for Fuels Utilization and Marketing Projects
Applicant
Applicant/Organization:
Lomakatsi Restoration Project
Phone:
FAX:
Email:
(541) 488-0208
oshanac@hotmail.com
Address (Street or P. O. Box, City, State, Zip):
PO Box 3084, Ashland, OR 97520
Project Coordinator
Project Coordinator (Name and Title):
Oshana Catranides
Organization/Jurisdiction:
501 (c ) 3
Phone:
FAX:
Email:
(541) 488-0208
oshanac@hotmail.com
Project Information
Project Title:
Multi-Regional Fuels Reduction Workforce Training Program, Phase II
Project Start:
Project End:
July 1, 2002
July 1, 2003
Federal Funding Request:
Total Project Funding:
$148,148.00
$159,648.00
Are you submitting multiple projects? If so, please explain and prioritize:
1.) This Proposal 2.)Colestin Road Fuels Reduction Program.
Brief Project Description:
Project will reduce fire risk through fuels reduction work, while providing strategically coordinated
workforce training programs which support the implementation of community fire plans in the
Applegate Valley, Illinois Valley, and Wildcat Canyon areas of S.W. Oregon. Project increases
regional workforce capacity to implement fuels reduction plans on a multi-community level.
Organizations and communities are requesting this program in response to Lomakatsi's pilot “Multiregional Fuels Reduction Workforce Training / Demonstration Program”, coordinated with NFP
funds during January - March 2002. This program is creating widely supported models of effective,
ecologically-based fuels reduction practices that are building bridges across which landowners,
communities, environmental groups, and agencies are working together to support the goals of the
National Fire Plan. Project partners will assist in identifying and measuring secondary forest
products to provide baseline data for partners assessing marketing feasibility for thinning byproducts from privately owned lands. Program will include by-product utilization demos to help
address economic, social and environmental concerns about forest fuels reduction.
Project Location:
County:
Congressional District:
Southwestern Oregon
Josephine and Jackson
52nd
If the applicant is an unincorporated area, define the geographic area being represented:
Enclosure 4B (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
Location: Selected project areas are being strategically coordinated to compliment existing and
developing community fire plans. Project areas include Applegate watershed (Applegate Fire Plan, Humbug
and Williams Creek Fire Risk Assessments); Illinois Valley (IVCRT/ Forestry Action Committee Fire
Planning and Assessor Training); Wildcat Canyon (Wildcat Canyon Stewardship Association, ODF Fuels
Reduction Grant). Project areas primarily consist of private properties adjacent to BLM / USFS, and/or
properties that have been identified through community fire-risk assessment processes.
Response:
Implementation: Project responds to the requests and needs of communities participating in fire planning and
fuels mitigation processes by combining on-the-ground work with extended workforce training programs on
approximately 75 acres of private land in the WUI. Project implementation will operate more efficiently
based on the experience gained during pilot training project coordinated by Lomakatsi Restoration Project
(LRP) using funding from the NFP during January - March 2002 . (see articles attached).
Anticipated Outcomes: Project increases regional workforce capacity and local participation in fire planning
and fuels mitigation efforts by reducing fuel loads on high-risk private properties adjacent to federal lands in
the WUI. Trainings create the core local workforce needed for the continuation of fuels reduction projects to
fulfill the goals of the National Fire Plan on a regional landscape level. Reduced fuel loads mutually benefit
and protect private and federal resources. Community demonstrations of by-product utilization increases
landowner incentives to become involved in fire reduction programs, and will provide baseline data for
project partners aiming to undertake marketing feasibility studies and projects (IVCRT).
Measures and Reporting: Lomakatsi will comply with all reporting requirements. The by-products of the
thinning projects will be quantified and recorded as data for assessing the feasibility of a marketable niche'
and/or cost-share incentives for the by-products of fuels reduction work done on private lands.
Partners: Applegate Partnership, Applegate Fire District 9, Project REACH, Williams Creek Watershed
Council, Illinois Valley Community Response Team, Forestry Action Committee, Ashland Fire District 5,
Wildcat Canyon Stewardship Association, Hayfork Watershed Research Center, as well as numerous
landowners participating in regional fire planning efforts. Jackson County Road Dept. will donate use of
chipper, hauler, truck and crews for demonstration project to support fuels reduction on private lands.
Time Frame: Project should be completed in 2 years
Activities / Equipment used: Fuel load reduction accomplished with chainsaws, pole pruners, loppers. Fire
safety tools on-hand. Other equipment when necessary may include a chipper, hauler, zig-zag yarder and
appropriate transportation. Utilization Demo's may include 'Economizer' or other wood mills, pole peelers,
portable mills, as appropriate in relation to materials thinned from sites.
Amount/Extent of Actions: Project acreage approx. 75 acres. Initial entry thinning is guided by 'Ecological
Principles for Fuel Load Reduction', (attached). House sites protected will be reported as project is
coordinated.
Compliances: Project will comply with any regulatory requirements including NEPA, SHIPO, and other
permitting processes.
Enclosure 4B (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. Increasing Local Capacity (35 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
year-round and seasonal jobs)?
B. Will biomass or forest fuels be utilized; if so, in what manner and how much?
C. Which, if any, private businesses will participate?
D. To what extent will this project be offered to serve as a model for other communities or businesses?
Response: A)Project
creates seasonal jobs for up to 35 interns who are trained for further employment in the
fuels reduction industry. Workers trained in 'Ecological Principles for Fuel Reduction' fulfill a growing
labor-niche' in high demand by landowners and environmental communities. Project increases the capacity
and availability of a regionally trained workforce of 'landscape ecologists'. Lomakatsi is supplying data to
partners compiling by-product utilization and marketing strategies as a sustainable foundation for increasing
jobs and improving rural economies across the region.
(B)The by-products of ecological fuels reduction are 'environmentally friendly', increasing marketing
potential. Lomakatsi will partner with Illinois Valley Community Response Team / Forestry Action
Committee to record baseline data for feasibility studies for marketing 'eco-friendly' thinning by-products.
Jackson Co. Road Dept. will chip and haul some excess biomass.
(C)Private businesses indicating interest in utilization potential include: Green Mountain Woodworks,
Kauffman Wood Products, It's A Burl, Sustainable Northwest, Schrodt Designs, Hayfork.
(D)This proposal demonstrates the extent of community demand for replication of this workforce training and
utilization program. Ecological guidelines (attached) and program curriculum are models already being used
by other communities in Southern Oregon.
2. Reducing fire risk. (30 points)
Describe how the proposal promotes reduction of risk in high hazard areas and communities.
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 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 fuels conditions.
A.
B.
Response: A)Intensive on-the-ground
labor will result in an immediate reduction of wildfire risk in identified
high hazard areas and communities adjacent to federal lands. Implementation popularizes fuels reduction
strategies and supports fire plans to reduce risk.
(B) Fuels reduction on private / federal interface offers mutual benefit and protection to both, and
subsequently to the surrounding communities. Fuels mitigation also protects watersheds, threatened species
and intact forest values. Project benefits communities by increasing the local workforce capacity, and by
encouraging landowner stewardship supporting fuels reduction in each region.
(C) Project is designed to implement portions of community-based fire plans for: Humbug Creek and
Williams Creek watersheds in the Applegate watershed (Applegate Fire Plan, Humbug Creek and Williams
Creek Fire Risk Assessments); Illinois Valley (IVCRT / Forestry Action Committee Fire Planning and
Assessor Training, and 2002 Marketing Study); Wildcat Canyon (Wildcat Canyon Stewardship Association,
ODF Fuels Reduction Grant).
(D) Project increases local workforce capacity to undertake the hands-on labor of enhancing and restoring
fire-adapted ecosystems through intensive regional trainings in ecological guidelines, techniques and
practices for reducing wildfire risk and reducing hazardous fuels conditions in community interface areas of
the WUI.
Enclosure 4B (Page 3 of 3) - Project Evaluation Criteria
3. Increasing interagency and intergovernmental coordination. (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: A)
This proposal is a response to the overwhelmingly positive reception of Lomakatsi's pilot
workforce training program, which resulted in a strong demand from 'fire plan communities' to extend the
training program further into their regions. This project request has evolved directly from local support and
encouragement from community groups, individuals, environmental organizations and local land
management project coordinators involved with the Fire Plan. The project will benefit from and expand upon
it's foundation from previous NFP project publicity, media coverage, community meetings and sign-up lists,
providing multiple opportunities for community and individual involvement.
(B) Local partnerships support this demonstration project as a 'tool' for generating increased interest and
participation in their local fire planning and mitigation efforts, while actually getting the work done on-theground. Cost share arrangements are being researched and developed in cooperaton with project partners
including the IVCRT.
(C) The environmental, social and educational benefits of this project are veryhigh. Socially, Lomakatsi's
'Ecological Principles for Fuel Load Reduction' are an educational instrument for creating common-ground
with individuals and environmental communities who have previously shunned ANY sort of 'cutting' in the
forests at all. The training programs feature educational workshops to increase participation in promoting
fuels reduction to safeguard homes & restore a stable fire-resiliant forestland environment.
4. Increasing interagency and intergovernmental coordination. (20 Points)
A. Explain the level of cooperation, coordination or strategic planning among federal, state, tribal, local government and
community organizations in developing this proposal. List the cooperators.
B. Describe how this project implements a local intergovernmental strategy or plan, or creates such a plan. Describe the plan if
it already exists.
Response: A)
This proposal is a direct result of a high level of cooperation and coordination with federal and
state land managers, community organizations and neighborhood groups. LRP's pilot training project was a
'showcase' of what can be done on an ecological basis to reduce large amounts of fuels, and to increase
support for the implementation of fire plans. The project will reinforce strategic in-roads towards increasing
agency, community, and environmental partnerships for supporting fuel load reduction projects. Lomakatsi
has participated in local and regional proposal development meetings with agency and community partners.
Project cooperators include: BLM Medford / Ashland / Grants Pass Resource areas: Tom Murphy, Kenny
McDaniel, Greg Chandler, & Jim Berge - Special Forest Products, Grants Pass District, etc.; >ODF: Jim
Wolf; >Rogue River NF: Paul Galloway. >Williams Creek Watershed Council, Williams Rural Fire District
Lieutennant, Humbug Creek Community Association, Applegate Partnership, Jack Shipley, Applegate Fire
District 9, Star Ranger District, Bjorn Severson and Project REACH. >Illinois Valley Community Response
Team, Forestry Action Committee, Dome School, Takelma Intertribal Project. >Wildcat Canyon
Stewardship Association, Jackson Hot Springs, Fire Dist. 5, Green Mountain Woodworks, Wilderness
Charter School, Jackson Co. Road Dept.
(B) The proposal's fuels reduction workforce training programs will take place in communities that either
have existing fire plans, or are in the process of creating plans.
Enclosure 4C - Project Work Form
Tasks
*PROGRAM START - UP
Begin Coordination and Outreach
Collaboration with Agencies
Contact Project Partner Organizations and
Identify High Risk Properties indicated in Fire
Plans
Media Contact / Announcements
OUTREACH TO LANDOWNERS
Initial Contact / Landowner Interviews for
Property Selection
Initial Site Visits / Meetings w/ Landowners
PRESCRIPTION DEVELOPMENT
Identifying Boundaries of Treatment Areas
Inventory of Vegetation and Fuel Density
Agency Collaboration on Treatment Design
Create Fuel Treatment Plan
Landowner Review and Approval of Plan
Schedule Project Consultants / Educators
COMMUNITY EDUCATION FORUMS
4 Community Meetings / Presentations
OUTREACH FOR PROJECT INTERNS
Intern Applications Distributed, Reviewed
Schedule Intern Interviews
Proceed w/ Intern Selection
Time Frame
Within 60 days of Grant Award
90 days from Grant Award
120 - 150 Days from grant Award
Responsible Party
LOMAKATSI collaborating with:
Applegate Partnership, Williams
Creek Watershed Council, IVCRT,
Forestry Action Committee, Jackson
Co. Road Dept., Wildcat Canyon
Stewardship Assoc. Advisory info
from BLM, ODF
LOMAKATSI
LOMAKATSI
150 - 180 days from grant Award
LOMAKATSI
TRAINING PROGRAMS
AREAS: Illinois Valley, Applegate/ Humbug
Creek, Williams Valley, Wildcat Canyon.
Public Relations / Media Outreach
Preparation for Utilization Demonstration
190 - 280 days from Grant Award
LOMAKATSI collaborating with:
IVCRT, WIlliams Creek Watershed
Council, Applegate Partnership,
Wildcat Canyon Stewardship Assoc.,
ODF, BLM,
UTILIZATION DEMONSTRATIONS:
Quantify Data on Thinning By-Products.
Contract for Economizer Wood Mill, Pole
Peelers, etc.
Tours of Treatment Areas and Utilization
Strategies for Landowners, Agencies,
Partners.
Project Review and Evaluation:
Intern
Media Evaluations
Outreach
Landowner Evaluations
Federal Reporting Requirements
Final report
200 - 300 days from Grant Award
LOMAKATSI collaborating with:
IVCRT, WIlliams Creek Watershed
Council, Applegate Partnership,
Wildcat Canyon Stewardship Assoc.,
Hayfork Watershed Resource Center,
Jackson Co. Roads Dept, ODF,
BLM,
LOMAKATSI
300 - 360 days from Grant Award
Enclosure 4D - Project Budget
Cost Category
Description
Federal
Agency
Personnel
Staffing and Coordination
Trained Crew Reducing Fuels
Subtotal
$26,800.00
$75,000.00
$101,800.00
Fringe Benefits
Staff
$9,380.00
Subtotal
$9,380.00
$0.00
$0.00
Travel
Instructors, Crew Transport
$2,500.00
Subtotal
$2,500.00
$0.00
Equipment
3 Chainsaws
Maintenance/Tools/Transport
Subtotal
$2,000.00
$3,000.00
$5,000.00
$2,500.00
$1,200.00
$3,700.00
Supplies
Chains, Bar Oil, Misc.
Fire saftey gear
Subtotal
3,000
$1,000.00
$4,000.00
$0.00
Contractual
Consultants / Educators
Utilization Demo/Equip/Staff
Subtotal
$5,000.00
$7,000.00
$12,000.00
$1,800.00
$2,000.00
$3,800.00
Other
Project Administration
Volunteers
Subtotal
Total Costs
Project (Program) Income1
1
Applicant
Partner 1
$0.00
$0.00
$0.00
$0.00
$0.00
$2,000.00
$2,000.00
Partner 2
Total
$0.00
$0.00
$26,800.00
$75,000.00
$101,800.00
$0.00
$0.00
$9,380.00
$0.00
$9,380.00
$0.00
$0.00
$2,500.00
$0.00
$2,500.00
$0.00
$0.00
$4,500.00
$4,200.00
$8,700.00
$0.00
$0.00
$3,000.00
$1,000.00
$4,000.00
$0.00
$0.00
$6,800.00
$11,000.00
$17,800.00
$13,468.00
$2,000.00
$2,000.00
$0.00
$0.00
$0.00
$13,468.00
$2,000.00
$15,468.00
$148,148.00
$9,500.00
$2,000.00
$0.00
$159,648.00
$13,468.00
$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.