Fire Management Memorandum of Understanding

**General**

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

# Authority

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

# 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. 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

(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.  (Property owners' name) has reviewed and agrees with the
    \_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_Fire Management Plan 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.

3.  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.

4.  When such an ignition occurs, notification to respective party 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}**

## 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)