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:
541-935-2283
FAX:
Email:
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):
Danny Benson, Unit Forester
Organization/Jurisdiction:
Klamath-Lake District, Oregon Department of Forestry
Phone:
541-883-5681
FAX:
Email:
541-883-5555
dbenson@odf.state.or.us
Project Information
Project Title:
KL Interface Fire Prevention & Education
Project Start:
Project End:
May 2002
September 2003
Federal Funding Request:
Total Project Funding:
$55,000
$55,000
Are you submitting multiple projects? If so, please explain and prioritize:
Yes, Priority #5
Brief Project Description:
This project would provide one on one contacts with the rural residents within the Klamath-Lake
District, Oregon Department of Forestry. This area covers 1.3 million acres of private lands
intermingled with approximately 10 million acres of federal lands. The demographics have changed
in the area from scattered ranches and timberland to a more rural residential with concentrations of
homes built in the forest. Contacts would be made with the rural residents and provide them with
numerous fire prevention messages that would cover, fire safe environment and defensible space.
This will provide additional educational and prevention messages over what is currently being
accomplished.
Project Location:
County:
Congressional District:
Klamath-Lake District
Klamath and Lake
2nd Walden
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) X 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:
Klamath-Lake District, Oregon Department of Forestry
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:
Project Location: The area covered under this prevention and education project is the Klamath-Lake
District of ODF. The counties in this area are Klamath and Lake.
Project Implementation: The project is primarily to enhance an all ready established prevention program
that needs some upgrade to it material. This upgrade will promote a high level professional program. It will
consist of contacting rural landowners and providing technical advice on creating a fire safe environment,
defensible space and other fire prevention measures.
Project Outcomes: The outcome is to educate as many people as possible, both that live in the wildland
urban interface and those that may visit, on the necessity of fire prevention. One main goal of this project is to
increase the public education/contact by an additional 2500 people (all ages) within the project time frames.
Partners: Klamath and Lake County Fire Chiefs, Federal Agencies Fire Prevention Coop, and Private
Landowners.
Project Time Frames: May 2002 through September 2003
Specific Activities & Equipment Used: The project will enhance presentations given to local landowners,
county fairs, schools, parades and one on one meetings with private property owners.
Extent of Action: The area covers communities at risk in a 1.3 million acre Protection Unit which is
intermingled with approximately 10 million acres of Forest Service, NPS, USFW, and BLM protection.
Environmental, Cultural, and Historic Resources: This is not a ground disturbing activity, so it will not
have an impact on the environmental, cultural, or historic resources.
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?
This project will first promote the reduction of fire risk by providing direct one on one education to
the landowners. This grant will allow for more public contacts to inform the private landowner what they can
do to help mitigate their risk and what is being done on Federal Lands that may be adjacent to them. There
has been no Firewise and limited Living With Fire programs presented on the Klamath-Lake District. A part
of this grant would be use to increase those programs. Once a “jump start” to the prevention program is
completed the maintenance of the program will be at the District expense within the “normal budgeted”
program.
Response:
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?
This project has the potential to provide one person year of seasonal work in the short term.
The benefits to the local community include minimizing the risk to property, and increasing awareness to fire
prevention issues. The Klamath-Lake District is in a fire prone area. The average fire occurrence within the
boundaries of the Forest Protection District which includes both BLM, NPS, UFSW, and Forest Service
protection is approximately 350 fires per year of which over 100 fire annually are human caused.
Response:
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.
The Klamath-Lake District and the Oregon Department of Forestry is always been a leader in
of Fire Prevention. The District has an established fire prevention plan that addresses most of the activity
listed in this grant. But, these funds are needed to improve those activities and to present other educational
opportunities. A fire prevention coop does exist and involves most Federal Land Management agencies,
Klamath and Lake county fire department and a Protection Association.
Response:
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?
The majority of the work in this project will be working directly with private landowners in
providing education and technical assistance. In the local area we have taken the opportunity to provide
information in displays at the county fair, presentations to local groups, newspaper inserts and articles, direct
mailings and public meetings.
Currently the Klamath-Lake district has three Fuel Hazard Mitigation Grants, one funded by the BLM, and
two being funded by the WSFM. These grants cover approximately 250 separate landowners, at this time
only a portion of the landowners will be funded because of the limited amount of money in the grants. In that
process the landowners are being funded to create defensible space and work in the area beyond defensible
space to reduce the fire hazard and improve forest health, with the priority going to landowners that have
residences or other improvements. Direct mailing, newspaper articles, and public meetings have been the
primary method of public involvement. Cost share incentives have be tied to the grants that include;
landowners working together, and product utilization. Due to limited funding most of the public contacts have
been through mailings and other written forms. This grant will provide funding to increase one on one
contact.
Response:
Enclosure 3C - Project Work Form
Tasks
Time Frame
Responsible Party
One on one contact with landowners
May 2002 through September 2003
Prevention Forester, NRS 1 and
Forest Officer
Coordinate a Fire Wise Program for KlamathLake District,
November 2002
Prevention Forester
Enhance material used for public education
June 2002
Klamath Unit Forester
Enclosure 3D - Project Budget
Cost Category
Description
Federal
Agency
Personnel
Fire Prevention position 9 mths
Subtotal
Fringe Benefits
OPE 41.41%
Subtotal
Travel
Fire Prevention
Subtotal
Equipment
Vehicles
Subtotal
Supplies
Prevention Material
Subtotal
Applicant
Partner 1
Partner 2
Total
$27,000
$27,000
$27,000
$27,000
$11,800
$11,800
$11,800
$11,800
$500
$500
$500
$500
$8,700
$8,700
$8,700
$8,700
$7,000
$7,000
$7,000
$7,000
$55,000
$55,000
Contractual
Subtotal
Other
Subtotal
Total Costs
Project (Program) Income1
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.