HomeMy WebLinkAboutFuels Reduction Presentation 2-19-20Fuels Reduction Project Update
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Project Overview
•Response To Growing Public Concern Of Wildfire
•Improve Community Resilience To Wildfire
•Community Engagement
•Education
•Fuels Reduction
•Workforce Development
•Organize Partners And Develop Collaborative
•Mindful Of Scale And Timeline
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Southeast Neighbors
•Defined Neighborhood
Association South of
30th/East of Willamette
•Existing Interest in
Reducing Risk of
Wildfire
•Leadership Group
Eager to Partner
•Areas of Joint
Protection with ODF
•Connections to Trails
and Recreation Areas
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Key Results
•Community Engagement
•Education and Empowerment
•Fuels Reduction on Public and
Private Land
•Workforce Development of
Young Adults
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Take Aways
•Complex Problem -Requires Multiagency Wholistic Approach
•Resource Protection –
Natural & People
•Recreation, Economic,
Environmental & Health
Impacts
•Habitat Conservation & Ecological Restoration
•Project Challenges
•Timeline
•Balancing Resources
•Coordinating People &
Processes
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Oregon Department of Forestry
•STATEWIDE PREVENTION
PROGRAM
•Coordinating with
partners around wildfire
•Engage, Support and
Educate
•“EUGENE
COLLABORATIVE”
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Eugene
Emergency
Management
Oregon Department
of Forestry
Bureau of Land
Management
Firewise
CommunitiesEugene
Springfield Fire
Planning
Department
Community
Wildfire
Protection Plans
Eugene Parks
and Open
Spaces
Watershed
Councils
Eugene Parks and Open Space
•Common Goals with WUI
Collaborative
•Connections Across Departments
and Organizations
•Brought Technical Expertise
•Helped Train Youth Crews
•Dedicated Equipment to the
Project
Eugene Parks and Open Space
•Landscape Level -BLM Community Wildfire Assistance
•Increased Resiliency -Wildfire and Climate Change
Northwest Youth Corps
•WORKFORCE DEVELOPMENT ALIGNED WITH EMERGING STEWARDSHIP JOBS
•LOCAL WORKFORCE WITH LOCAL IMPACT
•ONGOING RELATIONSHIPS WITH LOCAL PARTNERS
•ENGAGING MARGINALIZED YOUTH AND YOUNG ADULTS
Educational Outcomes
•12 PARTICIPANTS AND FOUR LEADERS GAINED:•USDA Chainsaw certifications, ODF fuels reduction framework and heavy-machine operations
•Over 9,000 hours of experiential workforce development
•Over 760 hours of formal stewardship, leadership and personal development
•Prepared for wild fire and resource stewardship pipeline
Working Better Together
•Communities
•Individual, HOA,
Neighborhoods
•Federal
•USFS, BLM
•State
•ODF, EM
•Local
•ESF, EM
•Service Organizations
•Nature Conservancy
•Watershed Councils
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Questions?
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