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:
Douglas Forest Protective Association
Phone:
FAX:
541 672-6507
541 440-3424
Email:
Address (Street or P. O. Box, City, State, Zip):
1758 NE Airport Road, Roseburg, OR. 97470
Project Coordinator
Project Coordinator (Name and Title):
Dennis Sifford, Staff Forester
Organization/Jurisdiction:
Douglas Forest Protective Association
Phone:
FAX:
Email:
541 672-6507
541 440-3424
dsifford@odf.state.or.us
Project Information
Project Title:
Interface education through the “Living With Fire”
Project Start:
Project End:
June 1, 2002
June 30, 2004
Federal Funding Request:
Total Project Funding:
$8,080
$17,380
Are you submitting multiple projects? If so, please explain and prioritize:
Brief Project Description:
Purchase 49,000 copies of “Living With Fire, A Guide for the Homeowner” pamphlets. 47,000 will
be inserted into the three newspapers that serve the residents of Douglas County. The remaining
2000 will be distributed through the fire department offices and at community events. The
pamphlets will be used to inform residents about the benefits of developing and maintaining
defensible space around the home.
Project Location:
County:
Congressional District:
Douglas District
Douglas
Fourth
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:
Within the district boundaries of the Douglas Forest Protective Association
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:
In the Spring of 2002, the Douglas County Fire Prevention Cooperative implemented a project to educate the
residents of Douglas County by distributing 20,000 copies of the “Living With Fire” publication through The
News Review, Roseburg’s daily newspaper, which mainly serves the residents of Central Douglas County.
This project will continue to be implemented and coordinated by the Douglas County Fire Prevention
Cooperative. Copies of the “Living With Fire” publication will be distributed in the Spring of 2003 through
the three daily papers that serve the residents of Douglas County: The News Review, The Register Guard, and
The Courier.
With this grant the goal is to distribute a copy of the publication to every household in Douglas County
served by the three daily newspapers.
Follow-up visits will be accomplished during routine patrols by the DFPA Forest Officers and recorded as
part of their weekly prevention reports. DFPA will query landowners that apply for hazardous fuel reduction
projects as to how they became aware of the program and if they received this publication.
The Douglas County Fire Prevention Cooperative has a long-standing cooperative nature among its
membership. The Co-op includes; DFPA, US Forest Service, BLM, all the Douglas County Fire Departments,
the Red Cross, and Douglas County Emergency Management. It has the support of all its member agencies,
the Douglas County Chiefs Association, and the Douglas Forest Protective Association Board of Directors.
The order for the “Living With Fire” pamphlets will be placed in the fall of 2002 so that delivery can be made
in time for distribution in the spring of 2003.
The goal is to send a pamphlet to 47,000 households in Douglas County; the remainder will be used for
distribution through fire department offices and at community events sponsored by the fire cooperative.
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:
A. By educating homeowners about the benefits of a maintained landscape around their homestead and to
help their neighborhoods survive the threat of a wildfire.
B. BLM ownership is checker-boarded with private ownership throughout Douglas County. These lands
are adjacent to and surround many of the high hazard area communities identified on the National
Registry. In addition, the eastern portion of Douglas County is managed by the USFS in which private
lands are adjacent or intermixed within the national forest boundary. Therefore, reducing fuels around
communities and structures reduces the risk of a wildfire spreading to or from these ownerships.
C. The goal is to enhance the knowledge of all the residents of Douglas County about the importance of
hazardous fuel treatment to reduce the impacts of fire for all individual homes and communities.
D. A Firewise Workshop is being conducted for Douglas County in March 2002 to educate community
leaders and planners about the importance of planning for Firewise communities.
E. The “Living With Fire” pamphlet exposes homeowners to the concept of reducing the hazardous fuels
in and around their structures. Action by the homeowner increases the likelihood of the structure and
community surviving a wildfire threat, because it reduces the amount of available fuel to burn, and
provides a safer environment for firefighters to deploy resources.
F. To educate the homeowner that a maintained landscape has many beneficial qualities, and is easier to
provide continuous maintenance.
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:
A. Some homeowners will probably provide employment to other community members to either do all
the work, or provide assistance in maintaining a defensible space.
B. The Douglas County Fire Prevention Cooperative will provide a project report to other Pacific
Northwest prevention cooperatives at the annual Northwest Fire Prevention Conference in the winter
of 2004. The project’s success will be shared with other agencies through the local media, meetings,
and by word of mouth.
C. N/A.
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:
A. There is not a current formal intergovernmental strategic plan to reduce hazardous fuels within or
around high risk communities within Douglas County. However, the consensus among all the fire
service agencies is that the current fuel loading has the potential to become a devastating fire situation,
and any program that will reduce the amount of fuel will be beneficial for Douglas County.
B. This project has the support of all the cooperators of the Douglas County Prevention Cooperative that
include: Douglas Forest Protective Association and its Board of Directors, U. S. Forest Service,
Bureau of Land Management, Douglas County Fire Chiefs Association, Douglas County
Commissioners, Douglas County Emergency Services Department, and the newspapers editors.
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:
A. The newspapers have been contacted to determine the cost of distributing the pamphlet as an insert.
B. This project has the cooperative’s membership and the Douglas County Fire Chiefs Association support.
The member agencies have agreed to provide time for employees to participate and accomplish this
project.
C. This project will help educate the populace of Douglas County that a maintained landscape will increase
the likelihood of structures and communities within the county to survive a threat of wildfire.
Enclosure 3C - Project Work Form
Tasks
Order and purchase the “Living With
Fire, A Guide for the Homeowner”
publication.
Contact the three newspapers and
distribute the publications to be
inserted.
Write final project report.
Time Frame
Responsible Party
September – December 2002
Douglas County Fire
Prevention Cooperative
members.
March – April 2003
Douglas County Fire
Prevention Cooperative
members.
September – October 2003
Douglas County Fire
Prevention Cooperative
members and DFPA project
administrator.
Enclosure 3D - Project Budget
Cost Category
Description
Federal
Agency
Applicant
Partner 1
Partner 2
Total
$3,900
$3,000
$2,400
$9,300
Personnel
Subtotal
Fringe Benefits
Subtotal
Travel
Subtotal
Equipment
Subtotal
Supplies
Purchase 49,000 publications
$5,130
$5,130
$2,350
$2,350
$600
$600
Subtotal
Contractual
47,000 newspaper insert cost
Subtotal
Other
Admin Costs
Subtotal
Total Costs
$8,080
$3,900
$3,000
$2,400
$17,380
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.