Accelerating Vegetative Treatments to Improve

Condition Class (also known as our Fuels Strategy

Meeting!!!)

Today’s Objectives

Quick review of HFRA

Expected outcomes for today

Meeting Objectives??

Meeting Objectives

1. Gain a common understanding of how R6’s hazardous fuels reduction program is integrated with other veg treatments.

Meeting Objectives

1. Gain a common understanding of how R6’s hazardous fuels reduction program is integrated with other veg treatments.

2. Determine how the Region will achieve its fuels targets.

Meeting Objectives

1. Gain a common understanding of how R6’s hazardous fuels reduction program is integrated with other veg treatments.

2. Determine how the Region will achieve its fuels targets.

3. Review a draft Regional integrated 5 year strategy to accelerate veg treatments

HFRA Bipartisan Support

8 of 10 members of Congress voted for it!!!

Healthy Forest Restoration Act (HFRA) Purpose:

1. Reduce wildfire risk to communities, municipal water supplies and other at-risk Federal land through collaboration

planning,

prioritizing and

implementing fuels reduction

Healthy Forest Restoration Act (HFRA) Purpose:

1. Reduce wildfire risk to communities, municipal water supplies and other at-risk Federal land through collaboration

planning, prioritizing and

implementing fuels reduction2. Authorize grant programs to improve

commercial value of forest biomass

3. Enhance efforts to protect watersheds and address threats to forest and rangeland health from events such as catastrophic wildfire

3. Enhance efforts to protect watersheds and address threats to forest and rangeland health from events such as catastrophic wildfire

4. Promote systematic gathering of info to address impact of insect and disease infestations and other damaging agents

3. Enhance efforts to protect watersheds and address threats to forest and rangeland health from events such as catastrophic wildfire

4. Promote systematic gathering of info to address impact of insect and disease infestations and other damaging agents

5. Improve capacity to detect insect and disease infestations at an early stage

3. Enhance efforts to protect watersheds and address threats to forest and rangeland health from events such as catastrophic wildfire

4. Promote systematic gathering of info to address impact of insect and disease infestations and other damaging agents

5. Improve capacity to detect insect and disease infestations at an early stage

6. Protect, restore, and enhance forest ecosystem components-a. Promote recovery of T&ESb. Improve biological diversityc. Enhance productivity & carbon sequestration

What does the Administration expect?

Administration Expects:

Work at Landscape Scale

Administration Expects:• Work at Landscape Scale

Work in collaboration w/ communities and states, tribal, local & Federal agencies to implement NFP & HFRA

Administration Expects:• Work at Landscape Scale• Work in collaboration w/ communities and states,

tribal, local & Federal agencies to implement NFP & HFRA

Use alternative analysis process in HFRA to get beyond process gridlock and get fuels treatments accomplished that alter the condition class on the landscape

Administration Expects:• Work at Landscape Scale• Work in collaboration w/ communities and states, tribal,

local & Federal agencies to implement NFP & HFRA• Use alternative analysis process in HFRA to get beyond

process gridlock and get fuels treatments accomplished that alter the condition class on the landscape

To fully use where appropriate all the tolls in HFI administrative actions and in HFRA

(CE’s, Stewardship Authority, etc)

Administration Expects:• Work at Landscape Scale• Work in collaboration w/ communities and states, tribal, local

& Federal agencies to implement NFP & HFRA• Use alternative analysis process in HFRA to get beyond

process gridlock and get fuels treatments accomplished that alter the condition class on the landscape

• To fully use where appropriate all the tolls in HFI administrative actions and in HFRA

(CE’s, Stewardship Authority, etc)

To accomplish any and all treatments toward community risk reduction and healthy forests and communities

Administration Expects:• Work at Landscape Scale• Work in collaboration w/ communities and states, tribal,

local & Federal agencies to implement NFP & HFRA• Use alternative analysis process in HFRA to get beyond

process gridlock and get fuels treatments accomplished that alter the condition class on the landscape

• To fully use where appropriate all the tolls in HFI administrative actions and in HFRA

(CE’s, Stewardship Authority, etc)• To accomplish any and all treatments toward community

risk reduction and healthy forests and communities

Collaborate, collaborate, collaborate

Would this be what some would call cheap & easy

acres???

Expected Outcomes for today and tomorrow

Expected Outcomes:

1. Sharing & review of individual forests, integrated strategic plans to move watersheds from condition class 2 & 3

Expected Outcomes:

1. Sharing & review of individual forests, integrated strategic plans to move watersheds from condition class 2 & 3

2. Better understand how forests are:

a. working across boundaries & in collaboration with neighboring agencies to achieve landscape scale results

Expected Outcomes:

1. Sharing & review of individual forests, integrated strategic plans to move watersheds from condition class 2 & 3

2. Better understand how forests are:a. working across boundaries & in collaboration with neighboring agencies to achieve landscape scale results

b. Involved in the development of Community Wildfire Protection Plans

Expected Outcomes:

1. Sharing & review of individual forests, integrated strategic plans to move watersheds from condition class 2 & 3

2. Better understand how forests are:

a. working across boundaries & in collaboration with neighboring agencies to achieve landscape scale results

b. Involved in the development of Community Wildfire Protection Plans

c. Collaborating with local communities & agencies in annual selection of hazardous fuels treatments (NFP goal 2E) & annual selection of ecosystem restoration projects (NFP goal 3C)

Expected Outcomes:1. Sharing & review of individual forests, integrated strategic plans to move

watersheds from condition class 2 & 3

2. Better understand how forests are:

a. working across boundaries & in collaboration with neighboring agencies to achieve landscape scale results

b. Involved in the development of Community Wildfire Protection Plans

c. Collaborating with local communities & agencies in annual selection of hazardous fuels treatments (NFP goal 2E) & annual selection of ecosystem restoration projects (NFP goal 3C)

3. Use the strategic plans of the forests to develop the Region’s 5 year strategy to improve the health of our forests and communities through integrated treatments