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:
Oregon Department of Forestry
Phone:
FAX:
Email:
(541) 935-2283
(541) 935-0731
dspiesscha@odf.state.or.us
Address (Street or P. O. Box, City, State, Zip):
2600 State Street, Salem, OR 97310
Project Coordinator
Project Coordinator (Name and Title):
Stuart Otto Service Forester
Organization/Jurisdiction:
Oregon Department of Forestry, Central Oregon District
Phone:
FAX:
Email:
(541) 447-5658
(541) 447-1469
sotto@odf.state.or.us
Project Information
Project Title:
COD Vegetation /Fuels Mapping Project
Project Start:
Project End:
July 1, 2002
July 1, 2003
Federal Funding Request:
Total Project Funding:
$310,175.00
$588,175.00
Are you submitting multiple projects? If so, please explain and prioritize:
Yes, One WUI treatment, one prevention,one planning. This one is 2nd priority
Brief Project Description:
This project will create a digital vegetation / fuels map using satelllite imagery for the Central
Oregon Fire Protection District. Currently, we have no district wide vegetation / fuels map in a
digital format. This map will aid the district in strategic long range planning, determining high fuel
hazard areas, initial attack analysis and many other planning functions. This map will be useful in
coordinating National Fire Plan Fuels reduction projects with US Forest Service and the Bureau of
Land Management and other cooperators. The current plan is to create this map at two levels of
resolution. The first is to map the wildland fuels at a 30 meter resolution. The second level is to
map the urban interface areas at 4 meter resolution. This would should give us the detail to
acomplish Wildland Urban Interface fuels reduction mapping and aid the currently ongoing NFP fuel
reduction projects and assist in planning and lay out of future projects.
Project Location:
County:
Congressional District:
Central Oregon District
Deschutes, Crook , Grant
Oregon 2th District
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:
Deschutes, Jefferson, Hood River, Wasco, Sherman, Gilliam, Morrow, Grant, Wheeler, Crook and
portions of Harney 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:
 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
Response:
This project is will cover portions of 10 counties that make up the Central Oregon Fire Protection District.
The project implementation is to purchase satellite imagery and through the analysis of the imagary classify
the vegetation to derive fuels classifications to aid the district in implementing National Fire Plan fuels
reduction projects. Other planning functions will also be assisted from this project such as long range fire
protection planning, initial attack analysis and high fuel hazard assesments.
The anticipated outcome is a vegetation / fuels GIS layer that will aid in planning and coordination with
federal agencies, rural fire districts, county and city governments and other cooperators in implementing a
coordinated fuels reduction program.
The measure of a completed grant will be a completed GIS vegetation /fuels layer that is distributed to the
Unit offices in the distict and is used to plan and implement fuel reduction projects.
The partners will include the National Forests that adjoin ODF protection, The Mount Hood, the Deschutes,
the Ochoco, the Malheur, and the Umatilla, the Prineville District and the Burns District of the Bureau of
Land Management. Numerous Local Fire Districts, County and City govenments.
The project time frame is to begin in July 2002 plan parameters and puchase imagery, contract the analysis
and final mapping project and complete grant by July of 2003.
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:
This proposal will promote the reduction of risk in high hazard areas by allowing mapping and analysis of
these areas so appropate actions can be planned and implemented.
This project will benefit resources on federal land or adjacent non-federal land by identifing those areas that
are of high risk and coordinated fuels reduction activites.
This project could be the first step in creating a cooperative fuels treatment plan and or community fire
strategy.
This project could lead to steps to enhace or restore local fire-adapted ecosystems by identifing where those
conditons exsist that would lend them selves to restoration or mitigation.
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:
Cental Oregon has traditionally had higher unemployment rates than other areas of the state. This project will
lead to some improvement of the economy in terms of jobs because a large portion of the grant will be
contracted to outside sources with in the local central Oregon area.
With the successful completion of this grant other ODF Disticts could use the information to assist in
mapping projects on their districts.
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:
This project could be the first step in creating a local intergovernmental strategy and plan. By having fuels
mapped and locations known discussions of cooperative and stategic treatment activites could take place.
The level of cooperation is good, and local managers know where the high hazard areas are, but currently
there is no one comprehensive map that shows vegetation /fuels to aid in coordinated planning and
comprehesive fuels treatments. The cooperators are: the Mount Hood NF, the Warm Spring Indian
Reservation, the Deschutes NF, the Ochoco NF, the Malheur NF, the Umatilla NF, and the Prineville , and
Burns Districts of the Bureau of the Land Management. Deschutes County Project Impact, Numerous rural
fire districts. County and City governments.
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:
The extent that people and communities have become involved in this propsal has been limited bacause this
is primarily a planning tool that ODF is sponsoring. However, the data and other outcomes will be shared
with cooperators and communities and will be a very important tool for their wildland fire planning efforts.
The utility of the imagery will be useful to many local and county planning departments beyond its use for
fire planning and these entities support the project but opportunities for cost-share support is low.
The environmental impacts will be in improved forest health and that any mitigation efforts will be more
productive because high hazard areas will be identified and prioritized. The social effects will be to lessen
the chance of catastrophic fires that can affect prooperties and people. The education benefits will be high,
because having a current and accurate vegetation and fuels hazard map is essential to educate the public about
the hazards.
Enclosure 3C - Project Work Form
Tasks
Time Frame
Responsible Party
Finalize map parameters and contract
specifications
July 2002
ODF Project coordinator
Let contract out to bid
July 2002
ODF Project coordinator
Award Contract
August 2002
ODF Project coordinator
Monitor contract progress
Ongoing , August 2002 to May 2003
ODF Project coordinator
Review final products and out comes
June 2003
ODF Project coordinator
Distribute final maps and data to ODF Unit
offices.
July 2003
ODF Project coordinator
Enclosure 3D Project Budget
Cost Category
Description
Federal
Agency
Personnel
GIS Coordnation
$13,728.00
Subtotal
Fringe Benefits
GIS Coordination
$1,952.00
Subtotal
$1,952.00
Travel
GIS Coordination
$1,500.00
Subtotal
$1,500.00
$200,000.00
$200,000.00
$78,000.00
$78,000.00
$0.00
Partner 1
$0.00
$0.00
$0.00
Partner 2
Total
$0.00
$0.00
$13,728.00
$200,000.00
$213,728.00
$0.00
$0.00
$1,952.00
$78,000.00
$79,952.00
$0.00
$0.00
$1,500.00
$0.00
$1,500.00
$0.00
$0.00
$6,000.00
$0.00
$6,000.00
$0.00
$0.00
$25,000.00
$0.00
$25,000.00
$0.00
$0.00
$90,250.00
$160,000.00
$250,250.00
Equipment
Large format printer
$6,000.00
Subtotal
$6,000.00
Supplies
GIS Software
$25,000.00
Subtotal
$25,000.00
Contractual
Satellite imagery
Analysis and mapping
Subtotal
$90,250.00
$160,000.00
$250,250.00
Other
Indirect
Agency Administration
Subtotal
$2,745.00
$9,000.00
$11,745.00
$0.00
$0.00
$0.00
$0.00
$2,745.00
$9,000.00
$11,745.00
Total Costs
$310,175.00
$278,000.00
$0.00
$0.00
$588,175.00
Project (Program) Income1
(using deductive alternative)
1
$13,728.00
Applicant
$0.00
$0.00
$0.00
$0.00
$0.00
$0.00
$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.