# Presentation: 906139

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## Unit Objectives

**Further your understanding of the relationship of the Fire Management Plan to the Land and Resource Management Plan. **
**Know where to find the pertinent information in your Fire Management Plan.**

## Identify (or recommend) the Appropriate Management Response.

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## IntroductionCourse Objectives

**Gain national policy, agency administrator  a common understanding of responsibility and accountability, and authority to improve all fire management actions.**

## Understand the need to balance land management goals with an appropriate fire management response that considers safety and overall costs of management actions.

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## National Directionto Leaders

**HO 3**

## National Fire Policy

**National Fire Policy**
**National Fire Plan**
**Federal Wildland Fire                   Management Policy**
**Strategy finalized June 2003**
**Approved 2004**

## Wildland Fire

**Suppression**

**Prevention**

**Prescribed Fire/**
**Hazard Abatement**

**Detection**

_**Wildland Fire**_
_**Management Plan**_

**Wildland Fire Use**

## Policy

**The current Federal Wildland Fire Policy requires that fire plans will be developed for all lands with burnable vegetation.**
**...****based on land management plans, to guide the full range of fire management related activities.**

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**The plan meets National Environmental Policy Act. ***(NEPA)*

## DOI PolicyDepartmental Manual Part 620
Burnable vegetation
Strategic plans based on LMP
Must provide firefighter and public safety
Resource management objective consistency

**Burnable vegetation**
**Strategic plans based on LMP**
**Must provide firefighter and public safety**
**Resource management objective consistency**

_**USDA-FS Policy**_**   ****Forest Service Manual 5103**
**Burnable vegetation**
**Strategic plans based on LMP **
**Must provide firefighter and public safety**
**Resource management objective consistency**

## Abbreviated Fire Policy Flow Chart

**Unscheduled**
**Wildland Fire**

**Rx Fire Burn Plan**

**Wildland Fire **
**Implementation Plan**

**Initial Action**

**Appropriate**
**Management **
**Response**

- Wildland Fire Use Project

- Objectives
-  Met?

- No

- Objectives
-  Met?

- Yes

- Unwanted Wildland Fire

**Implement Contingency Plan**

- Success?

- Yes

- No

- Yes

**After Action Review**

- No

- Objectives
-  Met?

- No

- Yes

**Monitoring & Evaluation**

**Resource Management Plan**

**Fire Management Plan**

**Prepare  WFSA**

**Extended Attack**

**Revise  WFSA**

**Abbreviated Fire Policy Flow Chart**

## NorthwestForest PlanRecord ofDecision

## LRMP Direction

**Describe unit-wide desired condition, goals, objectives, standards and guidelines.**
**Discuss Management and Resource Area direction in terms of desired conditions.**

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**State how the FMP will meet the land and resource management objectives.**

## KNF Forest Wide Desired Future Condition

**“****Ecological processes will be the primary influence evident in late successional reserves and old growth habitats ... where wildfire is no longer suppressed”.**

## Forest Wide Goal

**“****Reintroduce fire into the environment through prescribed natural fire ***(WFU)*** and prescribed fire....”.**

## Forest Wide Objective

**Fire Related Fuels Treatment****	**** ****9,375 ac.**
**Timber Related****	****                          ****3,183 ac.**
**Resource ***(fish, geo., range)****        *****14,550 ac.**
***                             ******TOTAL******     27,108 ac.***
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## Yosemite Example

**1980 General Management Plan**
**2004 EIS**
**FMP pending**

## Yosemite Desired Future Condition

*Nothing specifically stated, however,*** “Restore and maintain natural terrestrial, aquatic, and atmospheric ecosystems so they operate essentially unimpaired.”**
**General Management Plan 1980**

## Yosemite Goal

**“****Implement a fire program that allows the natural  processes of fire to prevail in the Yosemite Wilderness”.**

## Yosemite Objectives

**Wildland Urban Interface    ****	**** ****1,095 ac.**
**Rx fire****	****                          ****	****	**** ****5,505 ac.**
**Wildland Fire Use*****        ******	******       *****16,000 ac.**
***                             ******TOTAL******     22,600 ac.***
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## Specific Wildland Fire LRMP Direction

**Wildland Fire Use**

**Suppression Action**

**Prescribed Fire Direction**

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## Yosemite Record of Decision

| ALT  D | Suppression Unit |  |  | Fire Use Unit |  |  |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Treatment Strategy | Wildland/ Urban Interface | Non-WUI/
Non-Wilderness
Corridors | Wilderness | Wildland/Urban Interface | Non-WUI/
Non-Wilderness
Corridors | Wilderness |
| Aggressive Reduction | X |    |    |    |    |    |
| Passive Reduction | X | X | X | X | X | X |
| Managed Wildland Fire |    |    |    |    | X | X |
| Prescribed Fire 
(in prescribed fire units) | X | X | X | X | X | X |
| WUI = wildland/urban interface |  |  |  |  |  |  |

## Abbreviated Fire Policy Flow Chart

**Unscheduled**
**Wildland Fire**

**Rx Fire Burn Plan**

**Wildland Fire **
**Implementation Plan**

**Initial Action**

**Appropriate**
**Management **
**Response**

- Wildland Fire Use Project

- Objectives
-  Met?

- No

- Objectives
-  Met?

- Yes

- Unwanted Wildland Fire

**Implement Contingency Plan**

- Success?

- Yes

- No

- Yes

**After Action Review**

- No

- Objectives
-  Met?

- No

- Yes

**Monitoring & Evaluation**

**Resource Management Plan**

**Fire Management Plan**

**Prepare  WFSA**

**Extended Attack**

**Revise  WFSA**

**Abbreviated Fire Policy Flow Chart**

## Fire Management Plans

**LRMP**
**National Fire Plan**
**30 Mile**
**Agency Policies**

## Fire Management Plans

## III. Wildland Fire Management Strategies

**Identify the Fire Management Units.**
**Develop strategic measurable objectives specific to the FMU.**
*Attack all fires within the FMU*
*Restore fire to 25% of the ecosystem*
*Restore Fire to 50% of the FMU with prescribed fire.*

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## Identify constraints that will impact fire management activities within the FMU.
Air quality standards.
Identify unacceptable impacts to cultural or historical resources and/or T & E species
Discuss social-economic impacts.

*Air quality standards.*
*Identify unacceptable impacts to cultural or historical resources and/or T & E species*
*Discuss social-economic impacts.*

## Describe the fire environmentand discuss the fire management situation for the FMU.
Weather Patterns
Fire season climatic conditions
Fuel conditions
Recent events
Historic fire regime and current condition class
Foreseeable control problems

*Weather Patterns*
*Fire season climatic conditions*
*Fuel conditions*
*Recent events*
*Historic fire regime and current condition class*
*Foreseeable control problems*

## IV. Wildland Fire Management

**Determine how wildland fires will be managed.... ****Appropriate Management Response**
**Describe the resource benefits of wildland fire use.**

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## Appropriate Management Response (AMR)

**“...****any specific action suitable to meet Fire Management Unit (FMU) objectives. Typically, the AMR ranges across a spectrum of tactical options (from monitoring to intensive management actions).” **
**June 20, 2003 **_***INTERAGENCY STRATEGY FOR THE IMPLEMENTATION OF FEDERAL WILDLAND FIRE MANAGEMENT STRATEGY***_** **

## Appropriate Management Response

**Specific actions taken in response to a wildland fire to implement protection and/or fire use objectives.**

## Appropriate Management Response

**HO 4**

## Tactical Response Spectrum

**Appropriate Management Response**

**Tactical Response Spectrum**

- Wildland Fire Use

- Suppression

**Strategic Objective**

- Obtain Resource Benefits

- Minimize Loss

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## The Appropriate Management Responsewhere Wildland Fire Use authorized

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## Wildland Fire Use

**Preplanned Implementation Procedures**
**Description of potential Impacts**
**Qualified Personnel**
**Wildland Fire Implementation Plan ***(Wildland Fire use: Implementation Procedures Reference Guide****)***

## Wildland Fire Use Risk Assessment

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## WFIP Stage I: cont’d

**WFIP Stage I: cont’d**

## Wildland Fire Suppression

**Describe the following elements related to wildland fire suppression as appropriate ...**
*Range of potential fire behavior*
*Preparedness action*
- Initial attack
- Extended attack

## The Appropriate Management Response

## The Appropriate Management Response

- Suppression Response Intensity

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## The Appropriate Management Response

## Stage II:  Short Term Implementation Actions

**Short-term Implementation actions**
*Safety*
*Objectives*
*Threats*
*Environmental concerns*
*Fire fighting actions*
*Costs*

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## The Appropriate Management Response

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## Long Term Implementation Plan Trail Creek/Sheldon Peak

- California Fire Use Management Team

## Prescribed Fire and Mechanical Treatment

**   ****Describe the Prescribed Fire / Hazardous Fuels Program **
**50% WUI / 50% Non-WUI**
**Cohesive Strategy/NFP**
**HFRA**
**Decision Space**

## Target Communities

_**Target Communities**_

**Happy Camp**

**Seiad**

**Sawyers Bar**

**Yreka**

**Tennant**

## Summary ...

**The importance of the fire management plan.**
**The need for a fire management strategy for wildland fire use.**
**The importance of a prescribed fire/hazardous fuels management program.**

**...****Get Involved!**

## Communicate

**Your expectations for a successful Fire Management Plan**
- Firefighter safety
- Public safety
- Employee welfare
- Resource benefits

## How are we going to implement Wildland Fire Use on our unit?
What are our suppression strategies?

**What are our suppression strategies?**

- Summary ...Questions to ask your Fire Staff

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**How does the Appropriate Management Response work on my unit and what is my role?**
**Do I have all of the legal authorities to do everything specified in the FMP? **

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**Is the FMP compatible with adjoining jurisdictions?**

## Do you have a Plan?
Is it any good?
Can you follow it?

**Is it any good?**
**Can you follow it?**

- Summary ...Questions to ask of your Plan

## QUESTIONS?

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