# Presentation: 536913

## Unaweep Fire Use ModuleColorado BLMGrand Junction, Co Home Unit Upper Colorado RiverInteragency Fire Management

- Unaweep Fire Use ModuleColorado BLMGrand Junction, Co Home Unit Upper Colorado RiverInteragency Fire Management

## Unaweep FUM Facts

- -**First ”only?” BLM Fire Use Module **
**-Core crew of 7 members**
**	****	****	****-Module Leader (PFT)**
**	****	****	****-Assistant Module Leader (Career Seasonal)**
**	****	****	****-Two Crew Leads (Career Seasonal)**
**	****	****	****-3 Crewmembers (Seasonal)**
**-Coordinator establishes priority and availability**
**-Season of Availability  April 1-Oct. 15**
**-Received National FUM Status in August 2004**
**-Self sufficient (little to no logistical support needed**)
**-Highly trained and experienced personnel**.

## Unaweep FUM Mission

- 	   The purpose of the Unaweep FUM is to provide land management agencies with a highly skilled, mobile, and mission specific workforce. Principally assigned to fire use incidents, prescribed fire projects, and wildland fire suppression/ AMR incidents.

- Over the Franck Church Wilderness, ID 2007

## What we do on Wildland Fire Assignments

- -Fill key roles in Wildland Fire command structure from FEMO to FUM2/ICT3.  Assist in development WFIP at any stage.
- -Provide monitoring with written, electronic, and photo documentation of fire events.
- -Provide daily weather, smoke, fire behavior, and fuel moisture documentation.
- -Complete Structure Assessment’s, and implement structure protection as needed.
- -Bring specialized equipment too assist in management of Wildland Fire Use/ AMR incidents.
- -Provide support in every stage of the implementation Wildland Fire Events, from establishing/ implementing  MMA’s, conducting tatical operations (i.e. burnouts), to monitoring (i.e. Veg. plot’s).

## Unaweep FUM assisted in holding this road that was a       Management Action Point on the Beefsteak WFU

## Hike; GPS fire perimeter/ growth; recon ahead/behind fire to identify management actions points, water sources, and give useful information for managers; locate and asses structures; find and inform public of current fire threat.

- Near Buffalo Hump, ID

## Unaweep Photo Documentation of Progress of Greasewood WFU

- Greaswood Gulch, CO

##  What We Do on Prescribed Fire Assignment

- -Fill key roles in Rx Fire command structure from RXI2 to RXB2.
- -Monitor live/dead fuel moistures, and other parameters to meet Rx fire prescription.
- -Provide daily weather, smoke, fire behavior, photo documentation.
- -Provide Fire Effects Monitors.
- -Bring specialized equipment too assist in management of  Rx Fire.
- -Establish vegetation plots, photo plots, and fuel transects to meet monitoring needs.
- -Perform Rx fire operations and any associated prep work.

## Unaweep FUM Implementing a Prescribed  Burn to Reduce Juniper Encroachment in a Sage Park

- Garvey RX, CO

## Why do you need extra documentation on WFU?

- Advantage of having a FUM document Weather, Fire Behavior, and Smoke Observations, is to provide quality information to be used by the FBAN and LTAN in making long and short term fire behavior predictions.
- Documentation can assist fire managers with predictions and implementation of WFU/ AMR in future years within that FMU or similar FMU’s.
- FUM documentation is comparative nationally.
- Samples of some of the WFU documentations  are as follows-

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## Slide 12

## Video/Photographic Documentation

- Root Ranch burnout operations monitoring movie

- Fence reconstruction, Root Ranch, ID

- Kieran/ Dearstyne burnout, ID

## HOBO Weather Station

- Near Greenhorn Wilderness, CO

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## Slide 16

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## Vegetation Monitoring

- Johnson plotting, Meeker, CO

## Unaweep FUM Equipment

| 4 x 4 truck | 2 |
| --- | --- |
| Trailers | 2 |
| 046 stihl chainsaws | 5 |
| Crosscut Saw | 1 |
| ATV’s (1 ATV power torch) | 2 |
| Drip torches | 10 |
| Laptop computer/fire software | 2 |
| Portable printer | 1 |
| Digital camera | 2 |
| Garmin GPS | 7 |
| Hobo Portable Weather Station | 1 |
| Generator | 1 |
| Quion Dual Launcher/ assorted firing devices | Various. |
| Fuels Oven (with tins) | 1 |
| Jerry Cans | 5 |
| Satellite phone | 1 |
| Handtools | 10 |
| Cooking equipment | Various |

- Williams, bladder bag usage, ID

## Unaweep FUM Logistical Considerations

**Unaweep arrives self sufficient for two-seven days upon request.** Then like most other Fire Use Modules we can be self sufficient up to 7 days at a time by buying groceries and cooking.  Food costs are ~$3.50 per meal per person. Comparing MRE’s are ~$12.50 each.
- Unaweep has 2 purchase cards able to **make **travel\ lodging arrangements.
**Module costs:****	**								Trucks: FOR $9/day and .21/mile
**The modules base 8 hours are covered for prescribed projects, but not for fire incidents**.  The requesting unit will cover overtime, travel, mileage, and other project associated costs.

- Gila N.F., NM

- Chamberlin G.S., ID

## Unaweep FUM Qualifications

**Module Leader: **Chad Suppa 				970-257-4821 phone
**e-mail:** _[chad_suppa@blm.gov](mailto:chad_suppa@blm.gov)_				970-244-3124 fax
- 						970-210-6166 cell
**Qualifications: **ICT3, TFLD, STEN, CRWB, ENGB, HCWN, RXB2, FIRB, & FUM2 (t), DIV(t)
**Assistant Module Leader: **Randy Jacks			970-257-4822 phone
**e-mail:** _[randy_jacks@blm.gov](mailto:randy_jacks@blm.gov)_				970-244-3124 fax
- 							970-210-6167 cell
**Qualifications: **TFLD, ICT4, ENGB, CRWB, HECM, FIRB, FALB, ATVO, RXB2(t), FUM2(t), FEMO
**Crew Leads: **Nathan Metz, Sam Dearstyne		970-257-4824 phone
**e-mail: **_**[nathan_metz@blm.gov](mailto:nathan_metz@blm.gov)**__ & __[sam_dearstyne@blm.gov](mailto:sam_dearstyne@blm.gov)_	970-589-6811 cell
-                                                                                                          970-589-6812 cell
**Qualifications: **CRWB, FIRB, ICT5, FALB, FEMO, HECM, ATVO, FOBS(t), ENGB(t),  ICT4(t)
**Module crewmembers: **Andy Williams, Ryan Leonard, & Patrick Kieran
- (1-2 detailer positions per assignment)
**Qualifications: **Various (FFT2, FEMO, FALB, FFT1, ICT5, HECM,
-        ENGB(t), FIRB(t)

- Gila N.F., NM

## Unaweep Root Ranch, ID

- Dearstyne,  where has he gone
- now?

## Unaweep Fire Use Module 2007 Fire Assignments

| NAME | Type | LOCATION | ACRES | SHIFTS | INFORMATION |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Section Six | Prescribed Fire | NM-ABQ | 400 | 12 | Jacks- RXB2
Metz- FIRB
Dearstyne-Holding |
| HL | Wildland
Fire Use | NM-GNF | 15,000 | 15 | Dearstyne-FIRB Jacks- TFLD |
| Concord | Wildland
Fire Use | ID-NEZ | 2,400 | 16 | Gospel Hump Wilderness |
| Trapper Ridge | Wildland
Fire Use | ID-BOI | 40,000 | 15 | First WFU on the Boise NF |
| Krassel Complex | Wildland Fire Use | ID-PAF | 300,000 | 3 | Root Ranch Protection
Oxford- DIVS |
| Knowles Canyon | Suppression
Fire | CO-GJD | 50 | 3 | Colorado River |
| Pyramid | Suppression
Fire | CO-GJD | 25 | 2 | Line Construction |
| Mesa | Suppression Fire | CO-GJD | 5 | 3 | 3 Structures lost
 |
| Hanks Valley | Prescribed
Fire | CO-MRD | 150 | 1 | Metz- FIRB |
| Paxton | Prescribed
Fire | CO-MRD | 300 | 4 | Holding & Ignition crews |
| Ute Creek | Prescribed
Fire | CO-WRF | 250 | 2 | Ignition |
| Deer Pen | Prescribed
Fire | CO-GSD | 760 | 3 | Johnson-RXB2(t)
Oxford-RXI2 |

- Witches Knob, ID

- Hump Lake, ID

##                 Future for Unaweep FUM

-                *Continue to assist BLM and other                                       		agencies with the implementation of 		Wildland Fire and Prescribed Fire.
- Increase number of career seasonals to accommodate  making modules available longer during the season, and
-    giving the module ability
-    to retain quality
-    employees.

- Trapper Spike, ID

- Metz, pondering the Bear River Drainage, ID