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:
Craig Leech, Oregon Dept. of Forestry, Klamath-Lake District
Phone:
FAX:
(541) 883-5681
(541) 883-5555
Email:
cleech@odf.state.or.us
Address (Street or P. O. Box, City, State, Zip):
3200 Delap Rd.; Klamath Falls; OR 97601
Project Coordinator
Project Coordinator (Name and Title):
David Goheen, Prescribed Fire Specialist
Organization/Jurisdiction:
US Fish & Wildlife Service
Phone:
FAX:
Email:
(530) 667-3455
(530) 667-4159
david_goheen@fws.gov
Project Information
Project Title:
Bear Valley Plantation
Project Start:
Project End:
April 1, 2002
December 31, 2002
Federal Funding Request:
Total Project Funding:
$35,000.00
$35,000.00
Are you submitting multiple projects? If so, please explain and prioritize:
No
Brief Project Description:
Slashbusting in a 110 acre plantation to reduce stand density and rearrange fuels.
Project Location:
County:
Congressional District:
2 miles south of Keno, OR
Klamath
District 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:
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
Project is located two miles south of Keno, Oregon. Proposed project includes a 40-year old
ponderosa pine plantation totaling 110 acres. Stocking in plantation is in excess of 250 trees per acre.
Abundant ladder fuels exist with branches of most trees intertwined and reaching the ground. Decadent
manzanita shrubs are common throughout the area. Proposal would use slashbusters to reduce the stocking
level to approximately 130 trees per acre and eliminate ladder fuels. This would decrease the potential for a
crown fire and would decrease the intensity associated with a fire starting in the stand. Potential flame
lengths would be reduced from 20' to less than 4'. Firefighters would be able to directly attack a fire with
handtools and fire engines after the treatment. Not only would the treatment make the stand a safer stand
from a firefighter perspective, but by releasing the trees from competition, accelerated growth would occur in
individaul trees. Larger trees would be better able to withstand a future wildfire.
Response:
Project is located on Oregon Department of Forestry property, but is adjacent to the Bear Valley National
Wildlife Refuge. The US Fish and Wildlife Service proposes to provide funding to implement this project.
The Bear Valley National Wildlife Refuge is one of the most important bald eagle winter roosting areas in the
United States. The Fish and Wildlife Service views this project as a key to protecting this important roost site
as well as protecting the wildland urban interface on the perimeter of the refuge.
Project is estimated to cost $35,000.00. Material will not be utilized as it is all small diameter and is not
marketable. Several contractors have slashbusters available in the local (Klamath Falls) area. Proposed
project dates are from June 1, 2002 to December 31, 2002.
It is estimated that there are up to 100 homes are located within one mile of the project boundary. Keno
Oregon is within 2 miles of the project and has a population of approximately 2,700. Area receives a high
level of public use and the level of human caused fires is quite high.
Environmental and cultural resource clearances will need to be obtained prior to implimenting the project.
Costs for these clearances have been estimated into the total project cost. It is estimated that a categorical
exclusion will cover the NEPA requirement. The potential for cultural resources within the project area is
quite low due the high level of disturbance the plantation received when it was planted.
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?
Proposal will not reduce fire risk(fire occurence), but it will greatly reduce fire hazard. Ladder
fuels and tree densities will be reduced, which will keep a fire on the ground. A ground fire with flame
lengths less than four feet can be fought with crews utilizing handtools and fire engines. The current fuel
situation would support a fire of such high intensity that it would be impossible to directly attack. By treating
the plantation, firefighters would be able to safely suppress a fire before it spread to homes located within a
mile of the plantation. Reducing the stocking levels in the stand will promote more rapid growth in the
plantation. The stand will be less likely to develop forest health problems and will be more fire resistant. The
stand is adjacent to the Bear Valley NWR which is one of the most important bald eagle winter roosts in the
United States. Reducing the fire hazard in the stand will reduce the potential for a wildifre to burn onto the
refuge and destroy roost habitat. Treating the planation will help to protect the community of Keno from
wildifre. Project may help to create a community plan. The Keno Rural Fire District has received a grant
from ODF to access the fire hazard to individual homes in the Keno area. This project may well serve as an
achor point for futher treatments on private, state and federal lands and community education programs.
Treatment may require follow-up within 8-10 years.
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?
Response: Project
would be contracted to a local contracter who has slashbusters available. It is estimated that
the project would provide jobs for four equipment operators for one month.
Project may serve as somewhat of a model, but is really a very common-sense approach to treating an area
with high fire hazard while at the same time increasing the resource value of the area.
Biomass or fuels will not be utilized. The materail will be allowed to decay into the soil which will increase
the soil productivity in the plantation.
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:
While no plan exists, this is the second in a series of projects that the FWS and ODF have implemented in the
Keno area. The FWS has recently hired WUI coordinators. It is anticipated that once these WUI
coordinators are up to speed on the area, that such a plan will be proposed. The potential to increase this
program is immense. The Keno Rural Fire District is very interested in pursuing such a plan with the FWS
and ODF. The Bureau of Land Management is another landowner in the area and has expressed interest in
cooperating on projects. Several priavte timber companies may also wish to participate in the future. While
cooperation has been good between the fedral, state and local governments, the whole program is only in its
infancy in the Keno area.
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 FWS has done outreach on proposed fuels reduction projects in the area. This outreach has been in the
form of a public meeting and public scoping. Public interest has thus far been limited, but several landowners
have recently contacted the FWS to see if they could get funding to treat fuels on their properties. ODF has
provided the Keno Rural Fire District with a grant to access fire hazard around houses in several subdivision
near the project. FWS has provided the Keno Rural Fire District with a RFA grant to purchase wildland fire
equipment. The environmental benefit of this project will be to release a highly stagnant and fire hazardous
ponderosa pine stand to great growth and fire resistence. Opening the stand will promte greater species
diversity. Project may help to protect important bald eagle roosting habitat. Social benefit of project will be
lessened fire hazard in a growing rural interface area.
Enclosure 3C - Project Work Form
Tasks
Time Frame
Responsible Party
Complete NEPA and cultural resource
clearances.
Prior to June 1, 2002
FWS will contract
Complete slashbusting on 110 acres of
plantation.
June 1-December 31, 2002
FWS will provide funds to contract.
ODF will provide thinning
prescription and work inspector.
Enclosure 3D Project Budget
Cost Category
Description
Federal
Agency
Applicant
Partner 1
Partner 2
Total
$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
$0.00
$0.00
$0.00
$0.00
$0.00
$0.00
$0.00
$0.00
$0.00
$0.00
$35,000.00
$0.00
$35,000.00
Personnel
Subtotal
$0.00
$0.00
$0.00
Fringe Benefits
Subtotal
$0.00
$0.00
$0.00
Travel
Subtotal
$0.00
$0.00
$0.00
Equipment
Subtotal
$0.00
$0.00
$0.00
Supplies
Subtotal
$0.00
$0.00
$0.00
Contractual
$35,000.00
Subtotal
$35,000.00
$0.00
$0.00
Other
Subtotal
$0.00
$0.00
$0.00
$0.00
$0.00
$0.00
$0.00
$0.00
Total Costs
$35,000.00
$0.00
$0.00
$0.00
$35,000.00
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.