Transcript The Watershed Research and Training Center

A LEARNING NETWORK FOR
GROWING FIRE-ADAPTED
COMMUNITIES:
PILOT PROJECT
Front Range FAC
The first eight pilot “hubs”
Intro to Fire Adapted Communities
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A Fire Adapted Community takes
responsibility for its wildfire risk.
Actions address resident safety,
homes, neighborhoods, businesses
and infrastructure, forests, parks,
open spaces, and other community
assets. The more actions a
community takes, the more fire
adapted it becomes
Being a Fire Adapted Community is
not an end-point, but rather a
continuous process
Intro to FAC - continued
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Many communities at-risk from wildfire have been taking
steps to become fire adapted for years or even decades.
After years of disparate and varyingly successful local,
state, federal and institutional efforts, more coordinated
national focus and strategies are emerging
FAC programs
The FAC Coalition
An emerging language, toolkit and community of practice
Multiple elements and roles, coordinated
codes & ordinances
Ready Set Go!
prevention education
internal safety zones
local capacity
forest management
Community
Wildfire
Protection
Plan
fuel reduction
Firewise
Communities
fuel buffers
Fire Adapted
Communities
cooperative
fire agreements
Multiple levels of learning and feedback
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Within communities
Among communities
at the sub-regional
level
Among communities
nationally
Feeding back into
national strategies,
programs and
policies
Front Range FAC Structure
FAC
Agency
Neighborhood
WPFOFE
City of WP
Aspen Hills
Teller County
Fire Services
CUSP (facilitator)
Steering team
USFS
CSFS
Tranquil Acres
NRCS
Holiday Hills
Catamount Estates
Front Range FAC Work Plan
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Create Steering Team
Introduce FAC to Community
Update www.WPHFI.org - FRFAC.ORG
Outreach Tour & Presentations
Report Community Successes
 Create
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transferable lessons and peer learning networks
Recruit additional Neighbors
CO Wildfire Preparedness Day
DEMO Project
Front Range FAC Discussion
FRFAC organization ?
 Steering Team?
Scope of Front Range FAC ?
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Jonathan Bruno
Coalition for the Upper South Platte
[email protected]
719.433.6775