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08/28/14 02:00 PM
West 2.2. Tasks 1-9
1. Synchronize mitigation, fire education, prevention, and hazardous fuels reduction program activities that will create Fire Adapted Communities. Also support FAC Coalition work and that of other organizations and programs with similar/related goals at the state, tribal, federal and local levels. Agencies should work cooperatively, with complementary goals and actions among programs.
2. Expand scope of existing grant and cost share programs and pursue additional revenue sources for private land work to strategically reduce issues relating to transference of risk and make communities more fire adapted in areas of moderate, high and extremely high wildfire risk. Projects prioritized in CWPPs/Tribal equivalents, both in and around communities and "middle lands" further from communities, should receive priority. Use completed risk and hazards assessments such as the Westwide Risk Assessment (state and private), Regional Ecosystem Assessments (BLM) , State Forest Assessments (state and private), CWPP risk assessments (state, private, Federal) and/or local risk and hazard assessments to prioritize communities for hazardous fuels reduction treatment.
3. Continue and expand the use of grants and agreements to build collaborative capacity to develop CWPPs/Tribal equivalents to implement collaboratively developed projects and on-th-ground treatments at the local level. Additional assistance should be provided, as needed, to disadvantaged populations (i.e. elderly, low income, etc. ).
4. Negotiate alignment of USDA and DOI hazardous fuels work with FAC/CWPP/Tribal equivalent strategies. Support on-the-ground fuels hazard reduction projects identified through CWPPs, regardless of ownership.
5. Develop and disseminate best practices and sample wildfire zoning ordinances, which require the creation and maintenance of defensible space around homes and communities. Develop and disseminate best practices and sample WUI fire, building, subdivision, and development codes. Inform county commissioners, planning and fire departments, and code enforcement divisions on the application and enforcement of applicable regulations, including the need for continued manintenance of areas where fuels have been reduced. Communicate the firesafe building message to builders and developers.
6. Work at the local level to motivate homeowners through FAC and similar programs. Work with insurance partners to identify best practices to incentivize adoption of Firewise Communities/USA recognition criteria or equivalent and NFPA standards and ICC codes or equivalent for fuels reduction and maintenance of reduced fuels over time.
7. Work with EPA and the state systems (Departments of Environmental Quality and State Foresters) to replicate successful state-level burning regulations and the use of burning permit systems throughout the Western region. Encourage interagency coordination to minimize smoke impacts from prescribed fires and fires that are not actively suppressed, including direct coordination with Tribes, local governments and air districts.
8. Encourage and support social, economic, and ecological science research that will provide information needed to develop and carry out the education programs that will be most effective in motivating and/or mobilizing communities to become fire adapted. Collect and disseminate studies on how to strategically locate fuels treatments to effectively reduce wildfire risk to communities.
9. Engage social science researchers to how to motivate people to take action to prepare for disasters, individually and in groups. Foster and support research to determine what educational approaches and messages, financial incentives and/or disincentives, psychological considerations, and other factors and conditions are most effective in stimulating action to achieve and maintain fire adapted communities.
Priority:
National A
Goals:
Fire Adapted Communities
Scope:
Local, National, Regional, State, & Tribal
Timeframe:
Short Term (0-2 years), Mid Term (2-4 years), Long Term (>4 years), & Ongoing
Lead:
USFS
08/28/14 02:00 PM
West 2.3. Tasks 1-6
1. Establish a collaborative, broadly representative group with appropriate expertise and experience to explore and develop solutions to increase local recruitment and retention of tribal, volunteer, and private organization (for profit and/or non-profit) personnel for fire response.
2. Build upon the existing interagency wildland fire organization to create a network of local cross-trained crews for on-call response to fire emergencies, prescribed fire opportunities, and on-going fuels reduction treatments - a local fire brigade.
3. Develop interagency and intergovernmental policy and agreements that make a local fire brigade both possible and desirable.
4. Describe the concept in enough detail to create pilot projects. Include: training and certification of local groups and private contractors in prescribed fire and wildfire response, forest restoration, and fuels treatments.
- Review and revise contracting and agreement structures (including standard timber sale contracts) which currently inhibit the building of local capacity, including payment to organize local "on-call" crews for fuels treatments, prescribed fire, and wildland fire response.
- Develop mechanisms and agreements to mutually accept, recognize and/or standardize appropriate qualifications across state, Federal, Tribal, and local land and and fire management organizations.
- Develop and maintain local capacities through identification of collaborative partner roles, responsibilities, and set-aside actions in agreements that are subsequently incorporated by reference into socio-economic NEPA analyses.
- Create an agreement framework for set-asides, supplemental actions, and mobilization processes in local area operating plans (5-10 year plans with a process for annual supplemental addendum).
5. Create pilot projects in at least three adjacent counties, in one or more states, including a Tribal area.
6. In non-pilot areas, use the above identified mechanisms to begin building local capacity, as requested by local FAC Collaboratives and local organizations.
Priority:
Regional A
Goals:
Fire Adapted Communities
Scope:
Local & Regional
Timeframe:
Short Term (0-2 years), Mid Term (2-4 years), Long Term (>4 years), & Ongoing
Lead:
NWCG, State Fire Marshall, State Forestry Associations, & WRSC
08/28/14 02:00 PM
West 2.4. Tasks 1-4
1. Support a consistently funded, long-term, national and regional public awareness campaign to promote understanding of the need for communities to become fire adapted, and to motivate individual community members and key community interests to take positive action. The focus for the public at large is "pre-fire strategy" becoming second nature.
2. In cooperation with concerned state and local agencies and organizations, provide coordinated, consistent, scientifically sound, and area/audience specific information about fire's natural role in the ecosystem, potential mitigation and adaptation strategies, and the tools available to communities to enable them to develop and carry a fire adaptation strategy appropriate to their needs and capacity.
3. Develop a media and marketing plan, backed by social science research, which integrates all three goals of the Cohesive Strategy, while focusing on the "pre-fire strategy" (FAC) goal.
- Develop promotional and practical informational materials for young audiences. Encourage active involvement of young people in home and neighborhood FAC-related assessments and actions. Develop curricula for inclusion of wildfire and its mitigation in K-12 science classes. In researching and preparing education programs for schools, review the Mitigation Through Education material currently being developed by the DOI and USFS Hazardous Fuels Reduction Programs, the State of Florida and others.
- Develop a fire ecology message that can be presented jointly with fire prevention messages. Key elements would be that: wildfires are a natural part of the environment, will continue to occur, provide multiple resource benefits, and (in the long term) usually will adversely affect only very small areas of the landscape. Related talking points should be developed for fire information personnel and local fire units to use in the public outreach activities.
- Recruit national media assistance for information distribution, and enlist private sector, i.e. National Geographic, move theater shorts, hardware retailers, nurseries and garden centers, etc. Encourage local libraries, museums, malls, etc. to create visual displays and provide related informational materials on the ecological role of wildfire, fire prevention and mitigation, and available tools and resources for becoming a fire adapted community.
- Develop public service announcements (PSAs) and films/video for distribution.
- Utilize social media and other interactive tools to encourage and facilitate individual and group involvement in FAC activities.
- Encourage the creation of FAC-related demonstrations sites, and publicize them widely.
- Create a "teachable moment" package or template for local organizations to use when wildfire has threatened or burned homes in a community. Include tips, messages, and best practices for engaging the public and elected officials following a wildfire event to effectively respond to the heightened interest in mitigation, which normally follows a fire event.
- Develop a centralized prevention and education clearinghouse through which all informational tools and resources can be easily accessed by both agency personnel and the public.
4. Coordinate efforts to avoid contradictory messages, eliminate duplication of activities, and make the most of available funding.
Priority:
National C
Goals:
Fire Adapted Communities
Scope:
Local, National, Regional, State, & Tribal
Timeframe:
Short Term (0-2 years), Mid Term (2-4 years), & Long Term (>4 years)
Lead:
FAC & NFPA
08/28/14 01:38 PM
West 2.5. Tasks 1-8
1. Expand The Nature Conservancy's (TNC) hub and spoke FAC Network.
2. Collaboratively fund workshops and peer learning opportunities.
3. Increase support for the work of the FAC Coalition and the increased effective use of Firewise Communities/USA; Ready, Set, GO!; CWPPs and the tools thereof to achieve outcomes.
4. Develop support (i.e., relase time, performance measures, budget) for state and federal agency personnel to provide technical support and work with integrated fire management collaboratives at the county, tribal territory and/or community level.
5. Negotiate inclusion of local collaborative integrated fire management outcomes in agency administrators' performance standards.
6. Enlist the participation of social science research and researchers in the adaptive management of this system, to move from shared learning to action.
7. Facilitate an information collection and dissemination system from pre-planning through outcomes and adaptation in an open source approach.
8. Provide a feedback loop from the local to national levels for adaptive management learning and use in the next Cohesive Strategy revision.
Priority:
National A
Goals:
Fire Adapted Communities
Scope:
National, Regional, State, & Tribal
Timeframe:
Short Term (0-2 years), Mid Term (2-4 years), & Long Term (>4 years)
Lead:
TNC
08/28/14 02:00 PM
West 2.6. Task 1
1. Convene fire adapted communities workgroup to review FEMA programs and make recommendation to FEMA leadership related to pre-event wildfire mitigation needs and administrative processes.
Priority:
National A
Goals:
Fire Adapted Communities
Scope:
National
Timeframe:
Short Term (0-2 years)
Lead:
USFA
08/28/14 02:00 PM
West 3.1. Tasks 1-3
1. Convene state level groups to identify where existing fire protection resides for all burnable areas within each state this calendar year.
2. Response cooperators in each state will identify any voids, current service levels, or inefficiencies in protection that exist and use annual operating plans to negotiate to ensure that every acre within the state has designated protection.
3. Promote realignment of protection responsibilities to the organization that is best suited to provide efficient protection (e.g, block protection areas, offset protection agreements, protection contracts, intergovernmental agreements, collaborative local area operating plans, etc.).
Priority:
Regional A
Goals:
Respond to Fire
Scope:
Local & Regional
Timeframe:
Short Term (0-2 years)
Lead:
State Forestry Associations
08/28/14 02:00 PM
West 3.2.a. Tasks 1-2
1. Develop and act on a common vision of risk management among tribes, community leaders, states, and federal agency officials using shared decision support tools while recognizing the interdependence and statutory responsibilities among jurisdictions.
2. Review agency policies to ensure consistency with the vision.
Priority:
National B
Goals:
Respond to Fire
Scope:
National
Timeframe:
Short Term (0-2 years)
Lead:
WFLC
08/28/14 01:38 PM
West 3.2.a. Tasks 3-6
3. Develop a standard risk management process for wildland firefighting, agreed to by all stakeholders.
4. Include appropriate level of review by representatives from national, regional, and local fire jurisdictions.
5. Institutionalize risk management process in NWCG guides.
6. Establish a monitoring plan to review/modify the process after significant wildland fire use events.
Priority:
National B
Goals:
Respond to Fire
Scope:
National
Timeframe:
Short Term (0-2 years)
Lead:
NWCG
08/28/14 01:38 PM
West 3.2.a. Tasks 7-13
7. Avoid management decisions that transfer risk or increase threats to other ownerships without dialogue and shared understanding. Engage all partners in pre-season response planning to determine and map aggressive suppression areas prior to the next firefighting season.
8. Develop a local unified vision pre-season through annual operating plans, and involve affected agencies and stakeholders.
9. Engage key stakeholders (including key community leaders) in pre-season response planning, especially when other than aggressive suppression is being proposed in the response area.
10. Map areas where aggressive suppression is the expected initial response.
11. Discuss plans for areas and situation (weather, time of year, vegetation types, etc.) in which aggressive suppression is not the desired response.
12. Develop a common understanding of the decision process and role of key individuals when fires are being considered for other than aggressive suppression response.
13. Identify key stakeholders to be contacted when considering other than aggressive suppression response on new fires.
Priority:
National B
Goals:
Respond to Fire
Scope:
Local
Timeframe:
Short Term (0-2 years)
Lead:
BIA, DOI, EMA, State Forestry Associations, USFS, Wildland and Structural Fire Departments, & Tribes
08/28/14 02:00 PM
West 3.2.b. Tasks 1-4
1. Complete a literature search and assessment of existing studies (including international) related to the impacts of smoke and other toxic substances on responders and the public, and synthesize the recommendations for use in mitigation guidelines.
2. Provide guidelines to minimize wildland firefighter exposure to smoke and other toxic substances, both short term and long term (chronic).
3. Complete an assessment of existing studies (including international) related to the contributing factors of heat-related illness to firefighters, and synthesize the recommendations for use in mitigation guidelines.
4. Provide guidelines to minimize wildland firefighter exposure to heat-rleated illness.
Priority:
National C
Goals:
Respond to Fire
Scope:
National
Timeframe:
Short Term (0-2 years)
Lead:
NWCG
