Fire Management Memorandum of Understanding

**General**

This Memorandum of Understanding entered into by and between the
\_\_\_\_\_\_Field Office Manager and (property owner, address) and
\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_ County. This agreement provides for the management of
wildland fire as described in the (1) \_\_\_\_\_Field Office Fire
Management Plan on the Bureau of Land Management, (2) \_\_\_\_\_\_\_
County Fire Management Plan and (3) privately owned lands described
below.

# Authority

Federal Land Planning and Management Act (FLPMA) of 1976 (43USC
1737-1738)

House Bill 00-1283(CRS 23-30-204, CRS 23-30-301, CRS 23-30-304, CRS
23-30-305, CRS 30-10-513, CRS 30-10-513.5 (1) (a), Part 1 of article 11
of title 30; 30-11-124.

# Purpose

The Bureau of Land Management has designated lands in
the\_\_\_\_\_\_Field Office Fire Management Plan (FMP) for a wide range
of fire management response for naturally ignited wildland fires and the
use of prescribed fire. These can vary from aggressive and full
suppression to management of the fire for resource benefit. Protection
of life and property is the first priority for a fire for resource
benefit. Management of these fires, under a defined prescription, takes
advantage of natural fuel barriers and topography. The objectives for
management are clearly based on resource objectives. These fire
management responses collectively will be known as the "appropriate
management response" or AMR, and

\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_County has the authority to cooperate with other
governing bodies and with the state forester in the management of fires
and

(Property owners' name) owns several tracts of land totaling
approximately (X) acres described as follows:

(Legal Description)

which are either surrounded by or adjacent to Bureau of Land Management
lands included in \_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_Field Office Fire Management Plan
(FMP).

It is mutually agreed as follows:

1.  The Bureau of Land Management will continue fire management
    practices as described in the FMP for (property owners' name). The
    FMP requires appropriate management response (AMR) from naturally
    ignited (lightning) wildland fires which may occur in the area and
    which may, as a consequence of such decision as not to suppress,
    spread to said adjacent private lands.

2.  \_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_ County supports such management actions on
    private land based on the framework provided in the County Fire
    Management Plan.

3.  (Property owners' name) has reviewed and agrees with the
    \_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_Field Office Fire Management and recognizes the
    environmental benefits from a wildland fire to said property. They
    will not hold the United States responsible for any damage or injury
    to said property that may result from the implementation of the Fire
    Management Plan. This would include fire rehabilitation on private
    property.

4.  The Bureau of Land Management agrees not to hold (Property owners
    name) harmless for damages, which may result from a naturally
    ignited (lightning) fire originating on this private land and
    spreading onto adjacent \_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_Field Office lands.

5.  When such an ignition occurs, notification to respective parties
    will be made as soon as possible.

# Duration/Renewal

This agreement will be in effect after the date of the last signature
and will remain in effect for five years (or 5 years from current date
here) or until canceled on sixty days written notice by either party.
The landowner will immediately contact the BLM, if ownership of said
property changes. On an annual basis, Little Snake Field Office will
review the Fire Management Plan and make contact with private
landholder. At this time if there are any changes in the Planning
Objectives for the area adjacent to this private land or new concerns
have arisen from the property owner, these items will be mutually
discussed.

**[Special Provision]{.underline}**

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## Officials not to Benefit

No member of or delegate to Congress, or resident commissioner, shall be
admitted to any share or part of this agreement, or to any benefit that
may arise there from; but this provision shall not be construed to
extend to this agreement if made with a corporation for its general
benefit.

The parties hereto have executed this Memorandum of Understanding as of
the last date written below.

\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_
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Date Field Office Manager

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Date (Property owners' name)

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Date (\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_County Commissioner)