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08/28/14 02:00 PM
West 1.1.a. Tasks 1-3
1. Develop fair and equitable funding allocation processes, from all sources, based on criteria giving priority to collaborative, strategic landscape-scale restoration, maintenance activities, and treatments that reduce risk to ecosystems, communities, and their values.
2. Ensure planning and funding processes are inclusive of ongoing restoration and maintenance activities to support local collaborative management and response capacities. Develop a plan of action that motivates our leaders and appropriators to take actions and make investments.
3. Promote and coordinate planning and implementation activities across jurisdictional and ownership boundaries. Encourage Federal, state, Tribal and local partners to maximize collaboration and use of existing tools that will expedite the creation and maintenance of landscapes, especially in areas of national and/or global significance.
Priority:
National A
Goals:
Restore and Maintain Landscapes
Scope:
Local & Regional
Timeframe:
Short Term (0-2 years) & Ongoing
Lead:
DOI & USFS
08/28/14 01:38 PM
West 1.1.b. Tasks 1-2
1. Encourage tax and other incentives for work done on non-federal lands to implement landscape resiliency projects.
2. Recommend reclassification of grant funds utilized to reduce fire risk on private lands as conservation activities (in the tax codes).
Priority:
Regional A
Goals:
Restore and Maintain Landscapes
Scope:
Local, National, Regional, & State
Timeframe:
Mid Term (2-4 years)
Lead:
USDA
08/28/14 02:00 PM
West 1.1.c. Tasks 1-3
1. Increase the variety and use of tools such as contracting authorities (including stewardship contracting), grants, agreements, local labor force, and opportunities for biomass utilization in implementing treatments to accomplish prescribed fire, mechanical, chemical, and/or other culturally appropriate treatments.
2. Consider the full range of management response actions (i.e. fire for resource benefit, re-ignition of earlier suppressed fires, landscape-scale prescribed fire projects) when managing beneficial wildfire events in the restoration and maintenance of fire resilient landscapes, when and where appropriate.
Priority:
National B
Goals:
Restore and Maintain Landscapes
Scope:
Local, Regional, & State
Timeframe:
Short Term (0-2 years) & Long Term (>4 years)
Lead:
DOI & USFS
08/28/14 01:38 PM
West 1.1.d. Tasks 1-4
1. Develop simple administrative procedures that allow for the easy interagency exchange of funds between and within the Departments of Agriculture and Interior and its bureau for the collaborative efforts to implement landscape restoration activities and treatments (i.e. expand and simplify Service First Agreements).
2. Develop simple administrative procedures that allow for the easy transfer of funds between the Federal agencies, state, Tribal and local governments for the collaborative efforts to implement landscape restoration activities and treatments.
3. Establish a working group to evaluate and alleviate barriers related to intergovernmental exchange and transfer of funds to improve effectiveness in all three goal areas inclusive of NGO partners and networks.
4. Develop system to account for contributions, both intra- and interagency, to be considered when supporting the achievement of another unit's target.
Priority:
National A
Goals:
Restore and Maintain Landscapes
Scope:
Local, National, & Regional
Timeframe:
Short Term (0-2 years) & Mid Term (2-4 years)
Lead:
WFLC
08/28/14 02:00 PM
West 1.1.e. Tasks 1-3
1. Support and expand existing landscape treatment programs that integrate partnership interactions among federal, state, tribal and local agencies, and NGO collaborators.
2. Develop and distribute information about Collaborative Forest Landscape Restoration Program (CFLRP), Landscape Conservation Cooperatives (LCC), Fire Learning Network (FLN), and the requirements to follow existing environmental protection laws.
3. Develop and share examples of successes where this process is working.
Priority:
Regional B
Goals:
Restore and Maintain Landscapes
Scope:
National & Regional
Timeframe:
Short Term (0-2 years) & Mid Term (2-4 years)
Lead:
WRSC
08/28/14 01:38 PM
West 1.2. Tasks 1-8
1. Recognize and support collaborative solutions for the local prioritization of landscapes for treatment (i.e. WUI, Middle ground and back country or wilderness) to reduce potential large fire costs and mitigate negative consequences while considering the benefits of wildland fire.
2. Use completed risk and hazard assessments such as Westwide Risk Assessment (state and private), Regional Ecosystem Assessments (BLM), State Forest Assessments, Community Wildfire Protection Plan risk assessments (state, private, federal), and/or local risk and hazard assessments to prioritize landscapes for treatment and for building capacity for collaboration.
3. Consider local and regional priorities such as protection and enhancement of sensitive species habitat, air quality, and economic opportunities when utilizing data to prioritize treatments.
4. Enable local collaboratives to use national, regional, Tribal, and local data to inform scale and interconnectivity of priority focal landscapes.
5. Recognize the value of previous investments and prioritize ongoing maintenance, enhancement of past treatment areas, or areas of post fire restoration in allocation of funds.
6. Provide opportunities to ground truth existing data, which feeds into the various risk and hazard assessments.
7. Utilize local and traditional ecological knowledge of fire history and vegetative conditions in prioritizing projects and informing the decision-making process.
8. Define treatment effectiveness and collect data to use in identification and prioritization of projects and in promoting the positive effects of hazardous fuels treatments.
Priority:
Regional A
Goals:
Restore and Maintain Landscapes
Scope:
Local, National, Regional, & State
Timeframe:
Short Term (0-2 years), Mid Term (2-4 years), Long Term (>4 years), & Ongoing
Lead:
WRSC
08/28/14 02:00 PM
West 1.3. Tasks 1-6
1. Utilize existing and establish new expedited procedures, authorities and funding to mitigate and restore landscapes impacted by natural disturbances with potential unwanted consequences.
2. Develop post fire risk assessments for damaged areas and develop tools to address fire impacts to include: infrastructure, water, fuels, natural and cultural resources, roads and access, both short- and long-term.
3. Identify where investments are likely or not likely to restore areas to assist in prioritization of resources (i.e. funding, personnel, available seed, etc.).
4. Prioritize investments where funding for response to disturbance can also contribute to local collaborative fire adapted communities, wildland fire response capacities, and biomass opportunities.
5. Include local stakeholder representatives and potential funding agencies/organizations in pre-planning, suppression repoair and burned area emergency response planning implementation, research and monitoring.
6. Provide for aggressive response in areas of natural disturbance with high potential of unwanted consequences with low probability of success in restoration.
Priority:
Regional A
Goals:
Restore and Maintain Landscapes
Scope:
Local & Regional
Timeframe:
Short Term (0-2 years), Mid Term (2-4 years), Long Term (>4 years), & Ongoing
Lead:
DOI, USFS, & NASF
08/28/14 02:00 PM
West 1.4. Tasks 1-7
1. Make better use of NEPA processes designed to increase efficiency to allow for shorter planning times in implementing projects at a landscape scale.
2. Provide additional guidance and training to decision makers and field personnel on existing expedited NEPA processes available for landscape restoration projects.
3. Explore the development of categorical exclusions (CEs) for hazardous fuels reduction projects based on past treatment history, with established limitations and local level collaboration.
4. Use CE authority for rehabilitation projects after wildfire and expand limits for locally developed, consensus-driven landscape restoration activities and treatments.
5. Continue and increase the use of categorical exclusions where NEPA compliant land management plans exist, and make applicable across jurisdictional boundaries when collaborative consensus can be reached by stakeholders, Tribes and collaborative partnerships.
6. Fully use the determination of NEPA adequacy for multi-phased projects covered under NEPA and maintenance of existing projects that had prior completed NEPA. Identify maintenance and enhancements as reasonably foreseeable connected actions.
7. Provide information to field unites regarding the appropriate use of CEQ alternative arrangements as a result of natural disasters (i.e. tornadoes, wind throw, catastrophic wildfire, floods).
Priority:
National B
Goals:
Restore and Maintain Landscapes
Scope:
National & Regional
Timeframe:
Mid Term (2-4 years)
Lead:
DOI & USFS
08/28/14 01:38 PM
West 1.5. Tasks 1-5
1. Evaluate scope of original intent, impacts, conflicting interpretations, and associative legislative barriers, and identify potential solutions, including practical integrations in carrying out legislation.
2. Inform decision-makers and cooperators of the effect overlaps and inefficiencies, created by multiple independent environmental laws, have on restoring and maintaining resilient landscapes.
3. Collaborate with environmental regulatory agency representatives to reduce legislative barriers to the restoration and maintenance of resilient landscapes.
4. Pursue legislative solutions to streamline and expedite fuels reduction and landscape restoration and maintenance actions and activities that are based on sound science and that enhance social, economic, and ecological vitality.
5. Develop legislation for permanent Stewardship End Result Contracting including a 20-year contract provision, a 20-year sovereign-to-sovereign (or intergovernmental) agreement authority, and expansion of the Good Neighbor Authority.
Priority:
National C
Goals:
Restore and Maintain Landscapes
Scope:
Local, National, & Regional
Timeframe:
Short Term (0-2 years), Mid Term (2-4 years), & Long Term (>4 years)
Lead:
WRSC
08/28/14 02:00 PM
West 2.1. Tasks 1-12
1. Identify grant sources, which can be used or repurposed administratively or legislatively, to support development, updating and implementation of CWPPs (or tribal equivalents) at the local level.
2. Encourage development of CWPPs/Tribal equivalents for all communities/counties at moderate, high or extremely high risk of wildfire. Use CWPP guidance documents available at http://www.stateforesters.org/files/cwpphandbook.pdf and http://www.stateforesters.org/CWPP-community-guide.
3. Encourage regular updating of all existing CWPPs/Tribal equivalents. Recommend all entities be involved in updating CWPPs. Treatment plans for all ownerships should be coordinated to ensure landscapes and highest hazard areas are being treated to aid in suppression and reduce risk to firefighters.
4. Promote private, local, state, Tribal and Federal collaborative efforts to treat highest hazard areas identified in CWPPs/Tribal equivalents and other hazard/risk assessments.
5. Enlist high capacity local CWPP collaboratives to pilot the inclusion of fire management planning and post fire risk analysis in their CWPPs and relate implementation plans. Share successful techniques for engaging individual property owners and WUI residents in the protection of their own assets.
6. Encourage prompt updating and implementation of existing CWPPs/Tribal equivalents by affected Tribes/counties/communities following a wildfire event. Develop protocols for all entities to monitor effectiveness of treatments done in CWPP/Tribal equivalents-prioritized areas. Did treatments aid in suppression actions? Was fire behavior reduced in treated areas, making firefighting safer?
7. Enable and encourage open source updating and maintenance of the CWPP handbook by users.
8. In all updates, include fire adapted community concepts and community members' responsibilities in preparing their homes and properties for the possibility of fire. Identify technical and financial resources available.
9. Develop a system/mechanism to integrate cWPPs/Tribal equivalents into National Forest and DOI and DOD fire management planning processes. Investigate the inclusion of CWPPs/Tribal equivalents in relevant agency plans (LRMP, FMP, IRMP, etc.). Use CWPP hazard maps in the prioritization of landscape treatments.
10. Provide information to state emergency services programs regarding "best practices" for their role in planning and fire events.
11. Continue and expand existing programs to integrate fire science into the local context for fire adapted community efforts, including use of fire behavior models and risk assessments and fire ecology.
12. Create national and/or state clearinghouses where completed hazard/risk assessment maps are available for use by local, state, and Federal agencies. Use assessments to identify where high hazard areas overlap and ensure treatments are given priority for funding in these areas. Maps of areas that have been treated should also be made available for use in planning, suppression and monitoring efforts at the local level.
Priority:
Regional A
Goals:
Fire Adapted Communities
Scope:
Local, National, Regional, State, & Tribal
Timeframe:
Short Term (0-2 years)
Lead:
NASF
