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Fire & Fuels in Southwest Colorado Fire & Fuels in Southwest Colorado - Summer 2003 1 summer 2003 FFFFFIREIREIREIRE & &&&FFFFFUELSUELS in southsouthin west coloradoadoado Working Together Making Southwest Colorado a Safer Place to Live By Laurie Robison and Pam Wilson Southwest Colorado experienced a record- or poorly extingushed campfires, cigarettes The drought of the last several years has setting wildfire season in 2002. The human- thrown out the car window, kids playing with left our trees in a weakened condition, making caused Missionary Ridge fire quickly became matches and lighters, and inadequate spark them susceptible to insects and disease. the largest fire in the area’s history at 70,485 arresters on four-wheelers and other vehicles. Experts say we still have a ways to go to acres, and captured the attention of every And those are just the more typical ways wildfires recover from the drought, so be thankful for resident for almost two months. start. the recent rain and snow — but don’t become There were eight fires in excess of 100 Last year it was so dry the atypical happened. complacent. Do your part to help protect your acres in size, four of them human-caused, and A fire started from a tooth on a power saw blade home, your neighbor’s home, and our forests. the Durango Interagency Dispatch Center sent that chipped off and landed in vegetation; firefighting resources to 340 fires between another fire started from an electric fence March 13 and October 8. Thirty-one of the designed to keep weeds in check. When it’s hot 340 wildfires in southwest Colorado were and dry, think the unthinkable. Before you do human-caused. something in the heat of the day, in the middle Inside Fire is an important part of the forest of fire season, ask yourself – could this start a ecosystem in southwest Colorado. Prescribed fire? Be smart, be responsible, think it through Pg. 2 fires and some lightning-caused fires can be first. The National Fire Plan useful tools for fire managers when conditions You also need to be smart and responsible Community Fire Plans Created are appropriate. But unplanned, human- about your home. You’re the one who chose to Local Fire Departments and caused fires are undesirable — they tend to live here. You’re the one who wanted a home in Homeowners Receive Grants occur when fuels and weather are driest, the woods. What you do to create defensible Pg. 3 temperatures are high, and firefighting space around your home is the single most resources are stretched thin. important factor when it comes Returning Fire to the Forest Southwest Colorado is a to saving it from wildfire. Pg. 4 desirable place to live and as Obviously, there are no Reducing Fuels - It’s All in the Pre more people make this area guarantees when a powerful scription their home, we find more force of nature is involved, but people recreating in the there are things you can do to Pg. 5 forests, more homes in the increase the odds that your Wildland Fire Use wildland-urban interface, and home will survive. When Lightning Strikes a higher probability of We saw many examples in human-caused fires. Factor Durango and throughout the Pg. 6-7 in record drought conditions West last summer that Proposed Fuels-Reduction Projects and fuel build-up that will defensible space does help for 2003 on the San Juan Public Lands take years to mitigate protect your home. It gets the successfully, and we have a fire out of the tree crowns and Pg. 8 situation that causes a great back on the ground, where Beetles, Beetles, and More Beetles deal of concern. firefighters can control it Pg. 9 We can’t prevent better. lightning-caused fires, but we With assistance from the Missionary Ridge Rehabilitation can lessen the intensity and Office of Community Services Hotshot Crew Earns Certification the damage by treating at Fort Lewis College, five A recently thinned BLM parcel in the Pg. 10 lightning-prone areas. This counties in southwest midst of the Forest Lakes subdivision, What Are You Waiting For? means thinning forested north of Bayfield. Colorado now have areas or creating buffer Community Fire Plans. These Pg. 11 zones, especially those in the wildland-urban plans are helping the Forest Service and BLM Fire Restrictions on San Juan Public interface — where public and private lands prioritize where to conduct their fuel-reduction Lands meet. efforts. These agencies want to be good neighbors On the other hand, with everyone’s help, — if you live next to federal lands and have a Pg. 12 we can prevent human-caused fires. Each year large build-up of fuels near your home that you Colorado Legislation Promotes Good fires are started by carelessness: abandoned think needs to be treated, let them know. Neighbors 2 Fire & Fuels in Southwest Colorado - Summer 2003 Helping Agencies, Helping Communities The National Fire Plan After the 2000 fire season, which burned 2.3 million acres of The Pagosa Public Lands Office has one engine with a crew of five National Forest System land, the most in 91 years, the U.S. Department and this year has added a 7-person fuels crew that will be scouting of Agriculture and U.S. Department of the Interior released a report potential areas for fuels-reduction treatments, and laying out treatment that became the basis for the National Fire Plan (NFP). This plan units. increased Forest Service funding by $1.8 billion and was designed to: With adequate staffing in place, managers then began looking at 1. Ensure adequate firefighting resources, ways that the agencies could offer community assistance. Through the 2. Rebuild communities damaged in the fires of 2000 and Office of Community Services at Fort Lewis College, and with the rehabilitate fire-damaged ecosystems, cooperation of the Colorado State Forest Service, local fire departments, 3. Work with local residents to reduce fire risk and improve volunteer fire departments, and interested citizens, Community Fire fire protection, and Plans were developed for five counties. These collaboratively developed 4. Reduce fuels in forests at risk from catastrophic fire plans offer both local and federal land managers a tool to assist them effects, especially those near communities. in planning future fuels-reduction and education efforts. Southwest Managers at the San Juan Public Lands Center focused first on Colorado is one of the first areas of the country to have such plans. ensuring adequate firefighting resources, which includes not just The original partnership continues to grow and expand to include firefighters but also support personnel. At the PLC this includes two new partners, like local nonprofit organizations. In April, these groups fire prevention and education specialists, a fire information officer, a banded together to raise awareness and provide education fire ecologist, a landscape architect, GIS support, and the San Juan oppportunities for Fire Prevention and Education Month. Hotshot Crew. Local and volunteer fire departments have benefited from the NFP At the field offices, the support personnel include hydrologists, through Community Assistance Grants, which provided them with the archeologists, and wildlife biologists. These people help plan fuels- financial resources to obtain or upgrade equipment and personal reduction projects, and may also assist in prescribed burning or wildland protective gear, allowing them to better work side-by-side with federal firefighting. firefighters as the number of wildland fires increases. The Dolores Public Lands Office has three engines, with a crew of The NFP has provided local, state, and federal agencies with the five people. people, equipment, and partnership opportunities to create healthier The Columbine Public Lands Office has one engine with a crew of forest conditions. However, the wildland fire risk remains high in many five people and one hand crew of 10 people that performs initial attack areas because of fuels build-up due to decades of fire suppression, on wildland fires. extended drought conditions, and the growing wildland-urban interface. Working Towards Healthy Forests and Healthy Communities Community Fire Plan CommCommCommunity FFunity iririre Plans Creaeaeatedtedted Accomplishments By Pam Wilson ! Community Wildfire series — The National Fire Plan advocated the cre- as density and type of vegetation; access, both articles on issues related to wild- ation of community action plans to deal with to water and properties; fire department re- fire hazard and mitigation hazardous fuels. sponse time; and subdivision locations. The fire In 2001, the Forest Service, BLM, and plans also identify: ! Colorado Counties Inc. Work- Colorado State Forest Service partnered with • strategies for protecting community shop in May 2002 the Office of Community Services at Fort Lewis values such as watersheds, resi- ! Federal monies to Colorado College to work with local fire managers and dences, and recreation and economic State Forest Service to hire ad- interested citizens to develop Community Fire resources; Plans for Montezuma, Dolores, La Plata, • strategies private landowners can use ditional mitigation specialists, to Archuleta, and San Juan Counties. The plans to reduce wildfire risks; help with homeowner assess- were completed in the spring of 2002. These • local needs for fire suppression ments collaboratively developed plans: equipment and training; ! Montezuma County require- • describe the community; • potential public/private lands fuels- ments for Wildfire Mitigation • relate fire risk to where people live, work, demonstration projects that illustrate Plans for new developments and play; fuels-mitigation techniques and re- • reflect community values; sults; and ! Establishment of “demonstra- • describe potential actions to reduce fire • public education strategies. tion” sites in Archuleta, La Plata, risk; Mike Preston, federal lands liaison with and Montezuma Counties • describe needs of local and volunteer fire Montezuma County, says the Community Fire departments; and Plan has been a big asset to Montezuma County.
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