Integration on Fire. National Cohesive Wildland Fire Management Strategy in Action

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1 Overcoming Barriers to RX Fire: Prescribed Fire Training Exchanges (TREX), Oregon s Prescribed Fire Council, and The Nature Conservancy s Approach to Fire Management Amanda Stamper Fire Manager, The Nature Conservancy in Oregon Founder, Oregon Prescribed Fire Council Smoke Management & RX Fire Workshop May 30, 2017

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3 Managing Fire for Ecological, Economic, and Human Well- Being Integration on Fire FLN, FAC LN, National and International Wildland Fire Communities Indigenous Peoples Burning Network TREX Fire Adapted Communities Oregon RX Fire Council Tribes Smoke Management Training and Qualifications Wildfire Hazard Reduction Proper Use and Maintenance of Equipment Collaboratives Regional Fire Management Partnerships Mindful Burning and Sound Risk Management National Cohesive Wildland Fire Management Strategy in Action

4 Design and support innovative policies and programs like FLN, TREX, FAC LN, Burned Area Learning Network and Indigenous Peoples Burning Network, that encourage collaboration & integrated firescape restoration across systems WE CAN LIVE WITH FIRE

5 Indigenous Peoples Burning Network (IPBN) The IPBN will likely include the following strands of work, which are intertwined: Recovery of cultural knowledge, practice and belief systems Juxtaposition of cultural burning with dominant fire institutions Land tenure and jurisdiction issues Public land management planning Legal and policy foundation for Indian rights to conduct burning Intensive, multi dimensional training in cultural burning Reinstating cultural burning in Protected Area land classifications Outreach and communication with nontribal stakeholders Learning and evaluating by doing, observing and listening Youth and elder engagement Position ourselves to control local response to contemporary issues, such as climate change adaptation and response to Sudden Oak Death. Secure freedom to use the full spectrum of traditional to contemporary fire management systems (currently dominated by contemporary fire suppression system). Communicate (and maybe calculate) the taxpayer cost savings from traditional burning.

6 The Yurok-Hupa- Karuk IPBN Vision: When our work is successful, life will be thriving with deer, birds, mushrooms, open prairies, grasslands and clear creeks. There is laughing. Kids are playing all over. All of the brush is gone and we can see the river. The land all the way down the road has been burned. It is like the pre-contact landscape, and we are able to truly live off the land. We get that humble and respectful feeling. Our prayers with our ancestors are heard because our connection with the land is growing stronger and stronger. These prayers are carried by the smoke, and answered by the fire. People are leading and the agencies support it. A little ways back and a long ways out, we have the knowledge to make rain. Mission: To revitalize the implementation of cultural burns in Native communities through the cultivation of an intertribal support system in which traditional ecological knowledge is shared and our rights are protected.

7 Build Local Capacity for Safer Fire Help Communities Become More Fire Adapted Bring Together Diverse Crews to Foster Learning Give Students Hands-On Experience with Ecologically- and Culturally- Appropriate Fire Support Interagency Cooperation Integrate Traditional Burning Working Through Barriers to Burning

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9 1,188 Acres Burned Participants other NGOs TNC 2 events in Ashland and Central Oregon in April and May private landowners & contractors 87 participants from United States, Mexico, Spain & United Kingdom International universities tribes VFDs 1 The Fire Learning Network and TREX are supported by Promoting Ecosystem Resilience and Fire Adapted Communities Together, a cooperative agreement between The Nature Conservancy, USDA Forest Service and agencies of the Department of the Interior. For more information, contact Lynn Decker at tnc.org. An equal opportunity provider

10 Over 82,000 acres burned during 50+ TREX events to date

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12 Central Oregon Ashland Umpqua

13 4.2 million acres at risk in Oregon and Washington 900,000 acres currently planned for prescribed burning on fireadapted USFS lands in Oregon Central Oregon TREX Ashland TREX 2016 Oregon Prescribed Burning Burn Type Acres Burned Percent Broadcast Activity 4,097 4% Broadcast Natural 4,397 4% Grapple Pile 17,776 17% Hand Pile 15,223 15% Landing Only 26,327 26% Rangeland 3,252 3% Tractor Pile 5,812 6% Underburn Activity 5,729 6% Underburn Natural 20,407 20% (blank) Grand Total 103,020 Haugo et al (2015)

14 Southern Oregon Forest Restoration Collaborative Ashland Forest Resiliency Project

15 Willamette Valley Prescribed Fire Partnership

16 Central Oregon Fire Management Service Deschutes and Ochoco Collaborative Forest Projects

17 Blue Mountain Forest Partnership

18 South Central Oregon Fire Management Partnership

19 Facilitate and encourage councils

20 Spread of Prescribed Fire Councils Formation of Coalition of Prescribed Fire Councils

21 FORMAL PARTNERSHIPS Memorandums of Understanding (MOU) and Agreements MOU s provide for parties being able to work together for a common goal without the exchange of funds or assumption of liability for the other. Cooperative Agreements can include provisions for exchange of funds. Participating Agreements with the US Forest Service include provisions for matching funds.

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23 Smoke Intrusions Maximizing burning opportunities Language Wildfire vs. Prescribed Fire Accounting in Western OR vs. Fireadapted Forests Intrusion Complaint, Reporting, and Learning Process Incorporate Public Health Protection/Mitigation Strategy Pathway to De-List SSRAs Use of EPA Exceptional Events Rule

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25 TNC 1,040 Acres Zumwalt Prairie Preserve 800 Willamette Valley Preserves 240 Partner Assistance 1,889 Acres Deschutes, Wallow-Whitman, and Rogue-Siskiyou NFs Finley, Ankeny, Baskett Slough, & Nestucca NWRs Eugene and Medford BLM City of Ashland Oregon Department of Transportation Private Lands

26 Wildfire $ /acre 1099 fatalities since 1910 Prescribed Burning $5-400/acre 6 fatalities since 1910

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29 WE CAN LIVE WELL WITH FIRE