Title:برنامه ریزی برای مقاومت در برابر آتش سوزی

این پخش اینترنتی در حال حاضر فقط برای مشاهده در دسترس است و دیگر برای اعتبارات AICP CM قابل استفاده نیست. حمایت شده توسط: بخش برنامه ریزی کاهش خطر و بازیابی بلایا توضیحات: از سال ۱۹۸۰ تا اکتبر ۲۰۱۸، ۱۶ رویداد آتش سوزی با خسارات بیش از ۱ میلیارد دلار رخ داده است. در همان زمان، مجموع ردپای رابط زمین وحشی-شهری در حال رشد است، همانطور که تعداد خانه‌های موجود در آن رابط در حال رشد است. این پیامدهایی برای مدیریت آتش سوزی و اضطراری دارد، زیرا تعداد فزاینده ای از مردم در خطر هستند. این وبینار به بررسی نقش برنامه ریزان و برنامه ریزی کاربری زمین در ایجاد جوامع مقاوم در برابر آتش سوزی می پردازد.

قسمتي از متن فيلم: You hello everyone and welcome to the webcast my name is Christine Durr Steve Davis I’m the executive director of the Ohio chapter of APA and chair of the New Urbanism division and I am your webcast moderator today we will be hearing the presentation planning for wildfire resiliency and this is a rescheduled

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Forget to unmute yourself perfect that was the part that I was struggling with good afternoon everyone my name is Christine O’Donnell and I am a technical manager in planning at Michael baker international but I’m here today as a founding member of the hazard mitigation and disaster recovery planning division

Of APA and a member of the divisions Professional Development Committee so we’d like to thank APA Ohio for coordinating the webcast getting us all here for round two and for welcoming our division to the webcast series with open arms I about us our division is pretty new but

We’ve been growing rapidly and has about doubled our numbers in the past year and we are really proud that of our nearly 1500 members were representing 21 countries from as close as as Canada to as far away as Thailand Donna and Bob way Iran and Turkey and because we’re a

Relatively new division and our subject matter frankly may be unfamiliar to some of you I wanted to take a couple of minutes to frame what we mean when we say hazard mitigation and disaster recovery the disaster recovery part a little bit more obvious but hazard mitigation is a little bit different

Than some other context of mitigation perhaps for greenhouse gases so for us mitigation is the collection of activities that reduce or eliminate long term risk to people and property from natural hazards but we’re really talking about keeping people out of harm’s way we’re not talking about activities like sandbags are putting plywood over

Windows when you know the hurricane is coming the things that we do are things like stronger building standards zoning codes that keep people out of dangerous areas and permanently removing structures businesses etc from from hazard prone areas disaster recovery is the work that communities do to build

Back after a disaster an event and you may be thinking like what is the role of a planner when you’re really talking about emergency management activities but frankly we have a big role here after all some of the best and most long-term ways to reduce natural hazard

Risk why and where and how communities build and develop planners have a unique role as generally the people in communities to think about safes in place and about how all those pieces fit together um now I typically work in flood hazard mitigation but we’ve got two really wonderful speakers today who are going

To speak to wildfire planning our first speaker is Molly Mallory Molly is an AI CP and the owner of wildfire planning international she’s a certified land use planner specializing in helping communities increase their resilience to wildfire she has over 15 years of experience working with communities on the challenges of sustainability

Environmental planning and the wildland urban interface in her consulting practice Molly manages a national wildfire planning assistance program the community planning assistance for wildfire and as a director of a nonprofit community wildfire planning center she serves on multiple committees including the sustainable development code Advisory Council Molly recently did

Me a huge favor and delvis the first national land-use planning for wildfire workshop for fema region 8 molly holds a master’s degree in city planning from the massachusetts institute of technology our second presenter today is will smith will is the senior planner for Wasco County where he oversees current

Planning he received his master’s degree in urban and environmental policy and planning from Tufts University he also recently passed his ASP exam so he is an ASP on the fly at the moment will spent almost a decade as a wildland firefighter for the u.s. Forest Service in Wyoming in Oregon prior to joining

The team at Wasco County she’s currently leading the county’s natural hazard mitigation plan update process and will be doing the same for the communities wildfire protection plan early next year Molly and will are actually working together on wildfire planning which makes them such a great pair for this

Webinar today Molly’s going to cover some of the bigger picture issues related to wildfire resilience and will will share his particular communities experience planning for wildfires and we’ll have plenty of time at the end for Q&A this afternoon and now we’re going to have a poll as we transition between

Me and Molly which you’ll see in the Josephine meeting tool bar on your free please respond and help us get a better idea of who we’ve got with us yeah great thank you okay so our first question we just want to know where y’all are from

So I have that poll I just released it so go ahead and tell us and I just did it by timezone we’ll give it a few more moments here okay okay I’m gonna go ahead and close the poll and then I’ll share the results so it looks like 46% of our attendees are

In the Eastern time zone 21% central 17% mountain 14% Pacific and 1% outside of the US wonderful and so I’m gonna go ahead and launch our next question have you been personally impacted by a wildland fire so if you could just respond for me yes or no

We’ll give it a few seconds here you okay I’m gonna go ahead and close it and then I’ll share the results with everyone 82% nope and 18% yes I have been personally impacted by a wildland fire okay and then do you want me to go at kristinj when we do the third

Question – I’ll just take that yes yeah okay this is Molly yes okay okay so the last question right now there you go how familiar are you with the wildland urban interface the w UI so if you could go ahead and take a look at those responses

And pick one that relates closely to you we’ll give it a few seconds and then we’ll show the results you you you you okay I’m gonna go ahead and close it and share the results so 90 percent very familiar 38% kind of 13% barely and my

Favorite 29% w u iy so there we go the majority of our folks are kind of and right under that is I don’t know what that is so I’m gonna go ahead and hide these results and I’m gonna turn the screen over to Molly our next presenter thanks for responding everybody all

Right Molly you just have to click to show your screen perfect we see ya okay thank you so much and I’m really happy we could reschedule this timely webinar topic I do have to preface this with that I’m getting over a cold and I have the dreaded coughing phase of the cold

So I will do my best not to have to put myself on mute but in worst case scenario and they have to step away for just a couple seconds and how about do a little coughing so the content I am going to present today focuses on how

Planners can play a role in reducing wildfire damage to communities and much of this presentation content is based on a forthcoming APA pas report it’s called planning the wildland urban interface so I’m really excited to preview a lot of that content with you today and also

Just want to credit my co-authors and a read Kelley Johnston and Tyra Profi so I’ll tell a little bit more about the PAS report at the end just in case you’re interested but the poll results were very helpful for us to kick this webinar off just to look at where or

What the wildland urban interface is which we fondly refer to as the whoo-wee and so what do we really mean by the whoo-wee sometimes you’ll hear the we defined as a predetermined area or zone and often there’s also a misconception that it has to be somewhere in or near a

Forest so I wanted to offer a broader conceptual definition today for thinking about the weave and that is that the whoo-wee is any area where the combination of human development and vegetation has the potential to result in negative impacts from wildfire on the community there are many movies across

The country this is not just a Western phenomenon I saw that many of you are from the eastern time zone so I’m excited because I included some examples in today’s webinar from Eastern communities and these pictures here span coast to coast we have California to New Jersey and in between Colorado Tennessee

Washington and Oregon and you can see that these movies really vary based on native vegetation topography development patterns you might actually be able to pick out two different development patterns here and these are called the inter mix and the interface so we intermix which is a picture here on the

Left is where development is interspersed or scattered throughout vegetation and so there’s really no clear line of demarcation between where are the wildland fuels what we call them where they start and stop in an intermix is much more prevalent in rural or exurban or even large lots subdued suburban development areas the interface

Is where development is grouped and directly adjacent to areas with wildland fuels so there’s a clear line as you can see between the development and the vegetation and this is often that abrupt edge between some highly urbanized or suburban neighborhood in a wildland area these are much more common in new

Development areas such as green fields or where you may have an urban growth boundary in place so analyzing the spatial patterns of the woo-wee helps us as planners really understand the different ways in which wildfire can threaten a community so for example this continuum of wildland urban densities

Which we made similar to the urban transect concept shows how a wildland fire might directly threaten an intermix community the more on the left side of the continuum but there are areas deep within developed areas which are still subject to embers for example so these spatial patterns can also help us think

About different mitigation strategies so for example vegetation management requirements might be easier to implement on larger Lots but these same areas are often more costly in terms of fire suppression because homes that are scattered across a broader geographic area require different kinds of resources and these on the other hand

The compact urban areas are more prone to urban conflagrations so this is where you see fire spreading from the neighboring wild lands to one structure and then it can quickly affect multiple structures and that’s where we see a lot of the large losses from wildfires large structure losses so communities will

Often spatially assess their Willie to help identify what these types of patterns are this is an example from Chelan County Washington where we worked with them and the Rocky Mountain Research Station which is a branch of the u.s. Forest Service to analyze the housing units in terms of their winter

Mix and interface our notice that the whoo-wee only exists in these developed areas so in other words the wild land or the undeveloped vegetated areas it’s not a worry until it becomes developed so it essentially takes those structures to make it a Lewis so many of these assessments are based

On simply the distribution of housing unit and wild limb vegetation within an area but some communities define their whooing more broadly so for example you could have an entire portion of the county that might be labeled as the whooee which is you know west of a major

Highway or is an entire area except for a downtown or airport facilities for example so this idea of the way we can not only just capture housing but it can also capture other critical infrastructure and facilities businesses parks and natural areas cultural resources and many more the whooee spacial assessments are

Different from wildfire hazard or risk assessment the Wildfire hazard or risk maps identify the local conditions related to vegetation and other factors and can display the potential severity of a wildfires impact again this is another example from Chelan County so think of the we as where the values are

In a community the values that we just talked about like housing critical infrastructure etc and then think of wildfire assessments as informing planners about what is the relative worst-case wildfire exposure that you can expect in any of these given polygons where development may or may not exist

So a national team of scientists and researchers from the Forest Service and the University of wisconsin-madison quantified the entire countries we and again this was just based on housing unit density and wild land vegetation so this is what our national Louie looks like from the 50,000 foot view it’s

Remember – this is not a wildfire hazard map often when we show this map many of the communities that look look at this from the West kind of go late I thought I was in the Louie and you know if you were to zoom in you would see many more

Small pockets of we identified throughout the western lands but it really reflects where a lot of the population density is on the eastern seaboard or along the eastern seaboard so what’s interesting about being able to quantify the wuis at this national level it also gives us data and trends

So some of the recent analysis from this group showed that the whooaaa is now the fastest growing land-use type in the conterminous u.s. so between 1990 and 2010 we grew from 30 roughly 30 million to 44 million housing units so this is interesting because whereas many of us

Aren’t even familiar with the way we in fact you know what really stood out to me and reading this research is that it’s the largest or the fastest-growing land use types another point that’s interesting is although we didn’t see a lot of the woo-wee necessarily in the West some of

The highest growth rates of the we are occurring in the western United States so you can see here that some areas are experiencing percentage-wise greater than 75% growth in Bouie areas so we’re we have movies we have we fire and so we fire is a wildfire that involves this combined fuel complex

Which is natural vegetation and structures or infrastructure so it’s essentially a wildfire that enters this developed area you could see this really clearly from the example of the late Christine fire which was outside of basalt Colorado this summer it started from illegal activities on a local shooting range and I took it

Because I thought it was even maybe you can see my mouse here it was really interesting to see this wild land adjacent to the developed area and in fact some of this this was where some of the structures were lost it’s a really good example of unfortunate but good

Example visually of woo-wee fire so the other point here is that the majority of wildfires are human cost not all but most and the more people we have in the woolie the more fires we are seeing and this is one of the reasons why wildfire seasons are getting longer another reason which

I’m sure you might have heard about recently with a lot of the news is another reason why wildfire seasons are getting longer is related to climate change so climate change is affecting the intensity the frequency and pattern of wildfires and we can expect increased temperatures less frequent or predictable precipitation this is

Already leading to hotter and drier conditions so today’s woo-wee fires a really a result of both climate change and previous land-use decisions and these land-use decisions have to do with where we put development and forests related land use management so we can’t isolate it to one factor it’s much more nuanced

Than saying you know climate change is the reason why all these fires are so bad or we can’t also only say that forest man passed forest management so think of it as a combination and what is I think worth noting though is that under this warmer and drier future

Climate fire management agencies will continue to be further challenged by fire weather conditions and this really is starting to push a lot of our current capacity to put out fires quickly beyond what what first responders are capable of doing and that will result and continue to result in a substantial

Increase in these fires with many devastating consequences so in other words there’s limits to the firefighters ability to control wildfires and this makes the need for addressing the woolie through other strategies including land-use planning and other mitigation activities it makes the need greater than ever so what can planners really do

I wanted to walk through a series of best practices and things we see in the field I’ve been working on this for almost 15 years and really you know look at a set of strategies that work and that hopefully will generate some ideas on your end of what you can do and how

You can start thinking about development decisions differently when it comes to thinking about planning for the looey so the first one is really big picture we often hear about people saying well why don’t we just keep people out of these wee areas so if you tell people

Not to move there we won’t have a whoo and there are ways to do this in urban growth boundaries and other growth mechanisms can be effective for ruie growth and many other reasons not just wildfire these are examples from Boulder County sir excuse me those community of Boulder Colorado on

The left with a very clear urban growth boundary and then Bend Oregon’s recent urban growth boundary update that occurred as part of their Comprehensive Plan Update now they looked also at where they’ll further analyze future density related to Wildfire hazard however many areas are subject to the impacts of wildfire

So 94% of our lands in the US are considered wildfire prone and it’s really unrealistic to assume that we can just limit the amount of growth that will occur in the wood because frankly with so much of our land be wildfire prone there’s not an obvious answer to saying we simply won’t

Build in these areas we really don’t have that luxury of avoiding all wildfire prone areas so while we can you know kind of control the amount of growth that may occur especially intermix Luise that we talked about in this kind of exurban rural pattern it’s very unlikely we’re going to find

Limiting buoys in general as the primary solution so we have to start looking at what sort of requirements should be in place to safely allow development to occur so for example I was on a tour a few years ago in this community and I’m not going to pick out her bum you know

Point out who they were because all communities have some challenges but this is a good example of where this community showed me the location of a future subdivision you can kind of see if with my mouse here the subdivision was going to go in back here this is a

Large beetle kill area so it means that these gray trees are all dead from a beetle infestation that occurred over the past several decades and the planners there said that there would be some additional requirements for structures but this was a one way in one

Way out road and so it’s nice good to have additional requirements for these structures so that the structures themselves are safe but it really doesn’t change the public safety or the first responder safety for this one way in one way out Road in other words it doesn’t support evacuation for the safe

Keeping those public safe and this is a large issue everywhere now unfortunately it’s all too common in places that I travel to across the country this is actually an example from a community in Tennessee that burned during its November 2016 fires there were more than a dozen lives lost during

That evacuation and we recently saw similar outcome in Paradise California on a much larger scale and when I first looked at this aerial I assumed that many of these roads went out somewhere and when I talked to the fire department there they said no actually these are

Always all lead back to many dead ends or you know cul-de-sacs where you can’t get out and in this case there are a lot of tourists and other people that are already unfamiliar with the area and then you have these high-density units so you’re really setting yourself up for

A disaster when you know a wild place may be wildfire prone and you’re limiting the ability for the public to safely evacuate and we see this across the country so we need to look very carefully it when is it necessary to require multiple access routes when you

Have a certain density of structures or an expected number of occupants sometimes one route it can be just an emergency access route it doesn’t have to be an improved Road so it may be under certain conditions only that you allow people to go somewhere you can also require vegetation management along

Roadways during the time of development so this would be a good example where you want to require that vegetation management before subdivision gets developed and this is often done through subdivision regulations or you could do it even with the fire through the fire code so another important aspect of of

Good access is good road signage so I’ll let you guess which example here is would be easier to read during smoky conditions and I think it hopefully is obvious so we also recommend that now communities have requirements for standardized non-combustible signs this is good again for both the public and

First responder safety and this can also be part of subdivision regulations or the fire code where it focuses on access another key issue is with water supply so ideally we want communities to develop in areas where fire fire hydrants are required and maintained but we recognize that many rural communities

Don’t have this luxury so this is a common challenge that we see across the West the areas with limited or no water community may have a volunteer fire department and when we talk to communities in places like this the closest brush trucks that would be responding to a fire would have to be

Hauling in water from an hour or more away you can imagine this is not an ideal scenario so again where fire hydrants cannot be an option one an alternative option is to require on-site water storage this is also a really good opportunity to work with your fire department so model codes and standards

Can dictate what is appropriate here excuse me you might have to take just a sip of water one moment you so again this is an opportunity where planners don’t have to know the technical specifications I just have to know it’s appropriate for an area with wildfire hazard

Christine I might be losing my voice so I’ll see how much longer I can keep going no problem like we talked about early on well can always do some kind of song and dance for us to make up some time that’s not an issue so just go as long as you

Can and then we can flip over to will sounds great okay another what opportunity I wanted to point out is subdivision layout and site planning so this is a really good example excuse me this is a really good fire example of where a wildfire moves through unmanaged vegetation came down

Here from a mountain side and it moved through this community and you can see where the fire affected homes that were directly adjacent with nose fed back along the wildland on area here however homes that did have a setback and we there may be a variety of respecters

Here but homes that did not have a setback were not affected in the same way so we advocate for where development occurs in proximity to slopes that there’s a setback from that slope another topic that frequently comes up is with power lines so power lines can

Be a source of ignition and we’ve seen this very quickly especially in high wind events they can also be an area that influences fire activity in different ways depending on how the vegetation near the power lines are managed so I took this example from the highway 31 fire which occurred in South

Carolina in 2009 I thought this was really interesting when I first heard about it because I heard the South Carolina Forestry Department talking about how the fire behavior changed it started here in this natural area and once it actually moved through here and under the power lines where all the

Vegetation had cleared the fire behavior changed significantly and the first responders were able to control the fire and excuse me manage it as soon as it entered this unvegetated area so this was kind of a unique example where you did have the proximity of a cleared vegetation and positively influencing

The outcome now there was still a lot of homes lost from what we talked about earlier embers this is a really big source of ignition for many communities so you can see here you know you may look at this initially and think this isn’t really the whoo-wee there’s not a

Lot of trees or you know vegetation in this community but I chose this example here and we’ll go excuse me we’ll talk about it a little bit look later and what happens when these embers land near a home so the structure itself which is often regulated through the building fire or

Whooaaa code looks at the roof siding walls and gutters and even attachment in the goal of these regulations is to help the structure withstand fire without suppression resources so again working with the fire marshal or a building official can help you determine what’s appropriate you don’t have to become a

Building code expert but I would argue that you can’t really have a wildfire resilient community unless you address the structure and that doesn’t include attachment so common vulnerabilities that I want to point out our decks and fences on some jurisdictions will require mitigation of the entire property when an applicant

Puts in and puts in a new deck on their home other jurisdictions also require a non-combustible break between the feds and the home so that when the fire starts on the edge of a property it doesn’t get carried to the main structure these may seem very minor but

It’s often all of these minor vulnerabilities that collectively add up for structures and going back to our example of landscaping you know many of these small bushes near the home look very innocent right they don’t look like they could have a large impact on a structure but we have to think about

What happens under scenarios where you have this large ember storm and if you have seen any videos of you know some of these horrifying experiences that people have been going through in recent years and wildfires that are posted on YouTube or on the news you’ll see an ember

Shower and then you’ll see all of these embers landing somewhere and unfortunately we want to make sure that these places that are right next to a structure are clear of debris of mulch of Straub’s anything that can quickly ignite and bring a heat source to the main structure

So some communities now require a clearance of five feet of non combustible area around a home as well as the use of fire resistant plants this is an example from Wenatchee Washington where they did recently update their wildfire regulations following a wildfire that burned homes and these fire resistant plant lists are

Often available through State Forestry departments or Cooperative Extension services or even your local fire department so you don’t have to come up with this on your own you just have to be aware that it’s a resource for you and we often not often but we tend to sometimes overlook

Excuse me appropriate mitigation and you know the location of other land uses that can pose as hazards so for example lumber yards or storage warehouses can sometimes be problematic during a wildfire if they’re not mitigated because they’re storing combustible materials other uses such as shooting ranges which I mentioned earlier can

Result in unwanted fires so think about what type of conditions should be required to mitigate these type of uses if they are proposed in a high wild fire hazard area in your community this might be vegetation management or requiring a certain distance from other structures we’re even putting an ordinance in place

For regulating the storage of combustible materials so finally consider temporary uses on these are places in your community where people are going to gather typically on a hot day it might be they might be camping or using fireworks and you have to think about what kind of fire protection requirements are necessary to

Approve this kind of permit often planners will work with their local fire department to ensure they have the capacity for this kind of event so that if they are if you are putting a lot of people in a position where they may be exposed to a wildfire they can safely

Evacuate there are enough response resources on hand so in summary there are many things that planners can do to affect change in the whooaa and these are just I would say not even the full list um but I wanted to you know go through some examples to pique

Your interest in this and I’m just going to highlight two of the planning tools excuse me two of the planning tools that we often use or recommend using for planners when they’re thinking about woo-wee planning and we’ll was going to go into a little bit more depth in his

Presentation on these plans and codes as well so the first is a comprehensive plan these are some tips on thinking about the comprehensive plan or your master plan or general plan and ways to really strategize incorporating wildfire into it so you know you want to make sure you have background information for

This for context for the reader and you can integrate wildfire across different planning contour topics you don’t have to restrict it to just one small area of the comprehensive plan but you know all of the topics that we just went over span many different ideas about the woo-wee person that would be critical

Infrastructure transportation even thing about trials and recreation and open space if you want to look for these synergies and really see where you can you know directly or indirectly support wildfire planning and your comprehensive plan we also recommend avoiding policy conflicts so you’re not you know inadvertently trying to plan for a

Wildfire but also promoting something else a good example is when we see communities promoting a design aesthetic that might be more Pioneer related or western theme than its using a lot of combustible wooden materials and and features or architectural standards that rely on wooden features and then a quick

Note about of course aligning this with your state requirements which may have very specific requirements for Hazard planning also with wooly regulations couple tips here using model codes and standards are amazing resources and there’s several available through the International Code Council in the national fire protection association again your fire departments

Will be very familiar with these so you don’t have to know it on your own you can simply make a good relationship with your fire department and ask them for advice I’m going to leave it there so I can move on but I promise you that all of

This information and many more details are going to be available in the PAS report that I mentioned at the beginning of this so that will be coming out in April 2019 the good news is that this is a free pas report you don’t have to be a member like the other pas reports

Because this was sponsored by the forest service so look for that PS report will also be presenting on it at the APA National Conference and you can always contact me if you don’t find it or see it and want to learn more and then another resource just to highlight

That’s a good what segue to hand it over to will is that I’ve also been involved for several years in as the lead planner on this community planning assistance for wildfire program it’s a national program my company co-founded with headwaters economic and we’re able to through grants provide assistance to

Communities across the country on wildfire planning and so we have worked with over twenty six communities to date and through this process we’ve developed a really good set of best practices and we highlight all of these communities on our website planning for wildfires Network and one of the

Communities we worked with has been Wasco County I’m really excited that Will’s going to share what his process has been both working with the community planning assistance for a wildfire program and really what they were spearheading before we were we got the opportunity to work with them so willow

I think we’re going to do a couple more polls and then we’ll transition to you yes okay great wonderful I’m gonna go ahead and open up our next poll Thank You Allie all right I’m launching it now the question is have you been involved in developing a hazard mitigation plan or a

Community wildfire protection plan so go ahead and select a response that closely relates to you and we’ll give it a few moments you okay I’m going to go ahead and close it down and we’ll share the results okay so it looks like 33% I have been involved

۵۸% I haven’t been involved those are the two big ones I been involved in both 6% and looks good I’m gonna go ahead and hide this one and open up the next one go ahead and give you a few seconds here okay I’m gonna go ahead I’ll give it one

More second they’re still coming and it’s does your jurisdiction have WI fire safety standards currently yes no don’t know or I don’t live in a fire prone place okay I’m gonna go ahead and close it now and then I’ll share those results 18 percent yes 44 percent no and 39

Percent na not available I don’t live in a fire prone place okay one last question do you feel more prepared to plan for the W you I so I’m going to go ahead and launch that yes maybe no give it a few more seconds here okay go ahead and close

Show the results 24% yes I want to take action now 71% maybe but I’m still learning and 6% know I still feel unprepared okay so I’m gonna go ahead and hide those and now I’m going to change it over to will we’ll take it from there perfect

All right thanks Christine this is will out here in Wasco County before I dig into some of the planning side of things I just want to touch on fire behavior so we see fire behavior kind of represented by this fire behavior triangle which includes fuels weather and topography

You can see on website your screen here an image of how slope effects fire behavior so topography is a very important feature in directing where fire will go and how intense it will be you know heat rises and so as fire burns upslope and as a hot part of the day

Usually there’s upslope up valley winds as well to contribute and so it’ll preheat that fuel above the fire and it will cause it to run very quickly uphill and here you know Schuester or canyons narrow areas you know that’s consideration where you want to keep as planners we have the ability to approve

A site plan where you can separate yourself back from that slope as you can see in Molly’s presentation additionally fuels is an important feature in this sense you’ve got fuel you know grasps burns differently than shrubs versus timber the continuity it’s broken up and then then houses are constructed out of

Wood and plastic so it’s essentially a pile of gasoline and wood there so there are a fuel type as well you can see in this image here one house survived the rest of them very close to each other there one combusted it burned Rises the next one that continuity of fuels much

Much like fire will run across a meadow it will burn through houses very quickly and so you know some spacing concerned considerations is important to think about as well as just defensible space and managing the actual fuels around your house like I was spoken of earlier

As far as fire resistant fuels the term defensible space I’ll get into a little bit later clearing a kind of fire safe area around your house as planners we have a little bit less control over the weather so things such as wind of course drought temperature or not droughts

Exactly but temperature and weather conditions on the ground will affect what fire does and how intense it is so kind of understanding how fire works can help us as planners understand how better to prepare our community to build in the right direction so I’m out here

In Wasco County Oregon you some of you may have heard of it I realized we have a lot of Eastern Central but this year was the Netflix special wild wild country Waku County got a little bit of face time there the Rajneesh lived down in the southeast corner here and Wasco

County is right on this kind of device so the Cascade Mountains run kind of north-south here in this part of the state we are a little bit on the rainshadow we had a particularly interesting fire season this year here you can see you know we have mounted national forests on this side and

Reservation down here before I get into our fire I’ll just give you a layout of the land this area is kind of mountainous Mount Hood itself it’s kind of in the next county over Hood River County and then we have sort of forested areas but the eastern part of our county

We have a lot of this kind of a breadbasket up here a lot of wheat agriculture getting down here into more sage juniper kind of landscape lot much less rainfall in this second of this whole section out here The Dalles itself gets about 300 days of Sun a year and so

We’re we’re not beyond your typical vision of a rainy grey Oregon where we are on the sunny side and so because of that and a lot of forests and grasslands and we’re very combustible and our movies standards cover the whole so we don’t have a specific would we

Risk area currently that we just have standards on our fire safety standards cover the whole county so our fire season got kicked off this year in June we had a hundred thousand acre fire burned down in South County threaten the city and muffin ran right along with the shoots river luckily this

Area is sparsely populated into a hundred thousand acres no structures and so that was a successful fire you know there are positive effects of fire it’s not all bad the in this case next year the grazing down here is going to be spectacular you know it took out some

Decadent sagebrush it killed the junipers which really sucks out a lot of water generally and so and grass grows back thicker greener the next year after a fire and so it really kind of helps rejuvenate a landscape a lot of time and so there are you know positive effects

Of fire and then of course there are negative ones the next big fire here in July this unfortunately was arson there this day is starting afternoon we have our gorge west winds blowing about 30 miles per hour sustained and you can see the shape it started out here and kind

Of pushed out across the county ran about 15 miles and five hours jump the Deschutes River into the neighboring County this is about 80,000 acres and this burned up 80 square miles of wheat about one to two million bushels worth so significant economic impact on our

Region as well as the fact that fifty two structures burned for which were homes and we lost one rancher who was putting a fire break in so very devastating fire for us a few weeks later we had a long hollow fire similar fire pattern about 30 to 40 thousand

Acres no structures burned and then a few weeks later we had South Valley so kind of burn a lot of our eastern and southern portions to your South Valley burned about 25,000 acres and had 15 structures three dwellings lost and human starts here so again that’s that’s

Significance of the human impact on our wildfire so as you can see Wasco County you know we have a lot of fires we have a lot of variety of fire and we’re very concerned about that what kind of at crux right now in our planning world we wrote our comprehensive plan back in

۱۹۸۳ these black boxes represent some of our plans Wasco 2040 is what we’re calling our comprehensive plan update now it’s been in process for a few years we’ve finished in another year or two looking out to 2040 and we’re also updating our natural hazard mitigation plan wrapping that up this month that

Natural hazard mitigation plans get into that a little bit more detail here in a minute but they are on five-year cycle so they update a lot more frequently and our community wildfire protection plan was written in 2005 and has not been touched since and so we’re looking at

Start and update process on that next year notice in the polls several of you have worked on NH MPs but the CWPP is seems to be much less popular in our case you know having all three of these connected to each other is very important you know that kind of

Interactivity helps strengthen all of them first you know having the right inputs the blue is where we’re getting a lot of information from citizen input in all processes partner agencies reaching out with all of our partners and making sure that their needs are met and then

This year we had like Molly said we were selected as one of the community planning assistance for wildfire SEPA teams or communities so c-pod team came out to visit us several times this year and they recently provided us with a packet of final recommendations and hazard assessment a lot of good data

Going forward a lot of good tips for implementation house ideas supplement implement between welfare protection plan and ordinance updates because these we read here that’s kind of your tip your spear as far as planning goes and so this is where the rubber meets the road essentially your action items come

Out of these plans and they and making sure the partner each priority czar identified and how that feeds into the ludo you know and they the way that these plans are connected is important because them as I mentioned the 1983 is a long time this plan won’t be updated

Again for a while this one is on a five-year cycle CW CPS if you’re lucky 10 to 15 years and so our comprehensive plan is kind of a broad overlook of natural hazards in Oregon we have statewide planning goals goal number seven as area subjects and natural hazards so the comprehensive plan

Touches on you know the general sense of how we’re going to address each of these goals and it specifically references or it will reference our NH MP which is n the CWPP to make sure that they’re all tied together so that as we update our

NH MP which we updated you know four or five times before we even touch our comp plan again making sure that keeps our comp plan relatively updated as well as we update our other plans similar with the CW TP and they kind of step down in their detail-oriented nature so the

Natural Hazard Mitigation plan of course deals with all of our natural hazards here in Washoe County we have identified seven that are important for us droughts severe weather fire flood earthquake landslides and volcanoes you know other communities probably have tsunamis and hurricanes but those are not the concerns of ours in particular tornadoes

Also and so we our action items here are going to be a little bit more general they’re each type of disaster will have its own kind of stead of ideas of how to move forward so for fire ones in particular we’ll have a broad idea of you know increased defensible space but

Down in the CWPP isn’t it is our community wildfire protection plan breaks our County into five zones currently and we’ll see what where the update takes it but each done their specific actions the pencils at this particular location creates a pencil space and so really down to nuts and

Bolts and so making sure all those kind of tie together in their process has been important for us our natural hazard mitigation plan the requirements for FEMA you got to have a at least one public meeting ours was a know community open house we called it disasters and

Done’ we gathered a lot of good information that day we had come some disaster movies running in the background and a couple boards up from some of the your sticker exercises and whatnot so we took some info help us update that there the plan itself is looking at where the natural

Hazards interact with your vulnerabilities in your community so there’s a risk assessment there’s vulnerability assessments we list out our critical facilities and we did this through a series of steering committee meetings well I’ll get into the steering committee in a little bit the actual definition of mitigation read that up

There essentially though you know what’s the importance of the HMP for us it’s establishing that comprehensive community level strategy coordinating efforts we work with a lot of different our steering committee was about twelve to sixteen folks but we reached out to a large list of partner agencies up into the hundred or so

Including citizens and various groups from around the area so making sure we’re coordinating and prioritizing and really the big one a lot of communities I mean this is why people do it is the big carrot in the room is retaining our eligibility to receive federal funding for mitigation projects so in nineteen

In two thousand disaster mitigation act required the community tab these NH MPs in order to maintain their eligibility for these funding programs and updated every five years and so that’s really kind of the big big push there we want to make sure we’re competitive in that

Sense and our goals in our n HMP we’re protecting our life and property making sure natural resource systems are protected facilitating partnerships enhancing our education and enhancing our emergency services and we do all this these goals get kind of balanced between here’s a quick list of our steering committee myself on planning

And the emergency manager kind of spearheaded the effort we had great assistance from our state partner the department of land conservation development they applied for a grant to help us in a variety of other communities with our natural hazard mitigation plans you know as my it was

The first time that I had done one and so it’s great to have somebody who’s been working on them you know before they came on board I found a handbook online FEMA handbook and an Oregon partnership for disaster resilience handbook and I’d go to the meeting was one chapter printed out and

You know I’ve read yesterday and go and kind of present to the rest the group what we were doing and you know we were working our way through it but it’s great to have them come on board our blood and and if I’m the coordinator helping out and risk map special guests

Occasionally coming in and giving us some information so as a group we could really get our heads around all the issues for all our gestures but also you know fire being important for all these groups that was something we talked about a lot here’s a list of our partner

Agencies I won’t read through it but there was a lot of people involved so getting down into fire in particular you know in our in our chapter we discussed some of the recent major events in the county a conflagration organ is if they notice the government the governor puts

Out when fires that are going to involve life threatened life or structures so even this one memos to happen this year is only it wasn’t featured on my earlier map it was only about 200 acres or so but it was in an area highly densely populated area right and you know that

We kind of seen so they got a configuration which allowed other agencies from around the state to help out and of course you have the FEMA fire management assistance declarations and we had two of those this year out of I believe six total for the state so we

Had a third of all FEMA FM MDS so you know Wacka County had a significant hit so we wanted to make sure NH and Peters reflected kind of how why it’s important what are what are some of the impacts are in our community and so we’re identifying some major trends in recent

Large fires we’re also identifying this is taken from smart partner agencies the organ Department of Forestry Mount Hood we have two for service units here the Mountain National Forest we the Columbia River Gorge National Scenic Area and so they gave us their snapshot and so earlier you know mentioning how

More human fires are human cause it certainly is the case out here you know 15 percent overall is about 10 percent or light and cause a 90 percent of all of our fires were human caused in the county including all those major fires we had about two hundred thousand acres

Burn this year and so that human impact is really important to consider so here I mentioned earlier the action items being one of the tip of the spear you know we write our natural hazard mitigation plan we do our risk assessment look at our vulnerabilities we talk about how we’re going to

Implement make sure we have a chapter that discusses how the plan is to be implemented and maintains it in those five that five-year period but really where it comes down to it is in the action item section for us really identifying that here on the left of the

Multi hazard action items and then our wildfire specific ones and of course we have several all the other categories as well but you can see how these are going to be a little bit broader they’re countywide for the wildfire one accomplished defensible space that’s just a general statement and in the

Multi hazard ones a lot of these are overlapping you know education is important having those funds on hand that are in and updating the comp plan like I mentioned earlier they all tie in so identifying needs in your NH MP helps keep your eligibility for funding you

Know when you when our partners go out to go apply for a grant they might either use the NH MP or the CW tepee to help bolster their applications even if it’s not a federal one just in general pointing out this is an action item that has been identified by the county a

Series of coordinated meetings to pick out this is important to us and so that being represented as one of the important features in your county can help get that address so it’s really important to have identify that by partnering with various different agencies and making sure you get that

Citizen input so that when these are written you have your priorities lined out so we take it from there we move over to a community wildfire protection plan so I haven’t dug into this one yet as far as updating it but our current layout for our community wildfire protection plan

Like I said is broken into these five different sections it’s described kind of a planning process it’s the profile and then it again also talks about wildfire specific risk assessment mitigation strategies and continuing continuing actions the planning process I won’t read this to you but it’s important to kind of lay

Out how that’s going to take place so that you know you can all work it together and get it accomplished I’m hoping we’ll kick this off in January we’ll talk to all the fire districts or really the last couple of times I run into the various fire chiefs they keep

Asking me when we’re going to be starting up again because they’re eager to write grants with new information we’ve had the CEPA team came in and gave us a great packet of recommendations and well fire hazard assessment a really thorough tailored map of our county which really highlights some of the risk

Areas and we’ll be able to take that information and update this 13 year old plan with a lot more up-to-date science and up-to-date information to make it more relevant to our community so here’s an example of some specific actions so let’s see they’re calling out specifically a cleaning up these bark

Piles you know this is this is a location the glumly per yard you know Molly mentioned that a minute ago about how some of those industrial sites are dangerous and so here we have a specific action item to clean that up so when we update you know we’ll take a look at

That see how they did see if it still needs to be done or if it’s been accomplished and we can take it off the list and move on to the next major issue that zone 4 would have and so identifying what the priority is kind of that timeframe and who is responsible

And so the responsibility is going to be important of course to make sure we can follow up you know if we’re not updating the plan for another 10 years we want to be able to we still wanna be able to use it I don’t hopefully we won’t just put it back on

The shelf and let it sit there for ten years but we’ll be able to say hey muffin you know maybe have meat regular meetings like for the NH MP requirements at least two annual meeting so we’ll have hopefully something similar with the CWPP where we all get together we

Talk about where we are with our action items we identified we maybe bring a little more information in highlight some funding sources and we start hitting the plans okay we’re this one’s number one priority we’re going to get to that you know accomplish it by 2020

Etc so this helps us kind of give us a framework to continue those discussions that brings me to our experience with community planning assistance for a wildfire program that Molly’s a part of they were excellent this year they said they came out twice so far than they’re

Coming out again next week because give their final presentation here on the left is the kind of it was their draft recommendations they tweaked it since to give us the final one but it’s really useful here you know recommendation three update our communal for protection plan and we’re already planning on that

But they give us some language on why it matters and implementation guidance when we’re so if we’re ever dealing with maybe pushback about a certain thing from either political or different agencies we have kind of this in our back pocket from a very solid organization a well researched data so

It won’t be just us planners saying hey we need to do this it’ll be you know this is why we need to do this and why it’s important and here’s just an example of one of their tools I took this off their website if that eyes out some of the different ways you

Know you can different types of tools you can use and so we were here in Walker County I want to tailor it to what our needs are but we have it strong and where and where our weaknesses are so they help to identify that some of the other tools they provided us here’s

An image of kind of you know when we’re giving those presentations we’re talking about dating our ordinance and we want to put more requirements in for fire safety if we’re getting pushback from home builders or pushback from all political we want to be able to demonstrate you

Know how this is important and and with the latest science so our current current eventual space just lifts you know a generic 50 feet doesn’t really talk anything about neighboring fuels or overlapping hum ignition zones that’s kind of a more recent discussion so this is a good graphic to help us in our

Discussions moving forward another one you saw earlier kind of shows that continuum and how we might maybe take it from community-wide since our current fire safety standards are for the entire community we might be able to tailor it for each of our type of zone like maybe

We will remap it out to a wild lands rural suburban area but really there’s nowhere in our community or County that doesn’t burn even our County here in The Dalles we have fires inside the city limits inside the urban growth boundary regularly to push up in the backyards of

Folks so it’s this important everywhere and the city of The Dalles Public Works Director was on our natural hazard mitigation plan steering committee and they have their own NH MP as well but it’s important to kind of work together in that sense and this is it’ll be interesting a minute I have

Another slide that shows our current picture you know the houses planners we have a little bit less influence over what the building is made of the building codes has that preemption but we can provide recommendations to provide information education to our homeowners and contractors so they kind

Of give us an another image to show some of the different ways you can address that we currently address it but not quite the same level I thought this one was interesting it talked earlier about slope and just the difference between you might have defensible space that

Reaches out to 50 feet but it’s more important to have a 60 foot down slope and maybe you have a slightly shorter one up slope and so kind of having those different buffers different zones could be something to consider so that’s kind of where what we are looking at updating

In the future and we’ll take those recommendations forward and currently have is our walks with county fire safety standards and we hit on five major categories citing standards defensible space construction standards access and then our fire protection requirement for citing standards that’s where we’re really making sure that our structures

Are pushed back from the slope there you’re you know thirty percent slopes is kind of that key number I think our standards might actually say forty percent right now and so it’s more important to get it down to thirty especially things that overhang you don’t want decks or eaves above there

They kind of collect that heat collect that ember storm you know so I didn’t mention earlier as far as how fire spreads is you know you you’ll have a lot of people think a wall of flame runs through town and burns everything that’s fast it’s really not the way it works

Molly mentioned the Ember shower you know a fire will you know have a big kind of center area and the wind will push all the embers ahead of it and then the embers if it’s grassland or forests it’ll start little spot fires spot fires will grow and they’ll pull the fire and

Look sort of leapfrog its way for it doesn’t move it’s kind of a wall it’s sort of like spots itself out in front and part of that spotting process could be your home it throws these showers of embers onto your home even from last year Eagle Creek fire jump the Columbia

River I mean there’s a fire a spot fire from that about half a mile away mile away and so these big burning embers can really go along distance even a little one can be dangerous for your house they can get up into your soffit your gaps in

Your eaves land in gutters that aren’t cleaned out and that’s where the homes burn so you could see the actual fire front blackened forest is a quarter mile away and then here’s a community that wasn’t even close to that that has to happen dozen homes all burned up and so

That’s really important to make sure that all those kind of fire risk areas are Bund up in your house and and if your defensible space that’s kind of where you clear a zone around your house it doesn’t necessarily mean a clear cut we’re not talking clear every piece of

Vegetation within 50 feet for ours just make sure your grass is four inches nope no taller than four inches all trees are limbed up HP there’s there’s breaks in the canopy and there might be you know requirements in the future that we have this five foot no vegetation

Because that’s really where the major stuff is you know don’t leave your your firewood stacked up underneath your deck that’s going to collect some embers and there’s your combustibility right there so ensuring that our defensible space and our construction standards unlike I said before that’s what building codes

Really plays a role but we can make recommendations and access important you saw that one way in one way out subdivision proposed it Molly showed for us in the county we have a lot of long driveways as a firefighter you know you’re you come up on a driveway and and

You have to make a decision whether it drive down it or not and if it’s overgrown and narrow and tight and different slopes and you don’t know who’s coming out you you might not even drive down that road to look at what’s at the end of it just for your fire

Firefighter safety so we want to make sure that the firefighters can access the home if there’s turnouts available every couple hundred feet so if there are residents evacuating firefighters somebody can pull over into a turnout and let somebody by and then at the end making sure they’re just fire trucks or

Large they need to be able to turn around so in the rural areas we want to make sure is they can come to the end of this driveway and not have to back their way out because that’s the case there they’re not going to stick around and so

The access is important to insure that the firefighters can get in and out safely and then you know our last standard there is weather kind of you know we don’t have fire districts in every not universal their place in our county where you call for a fire and you

Don’t have you know a taxing district and that’s something we’re trying to change not an organized state law requiring universal coverage for ambulance but it’s not quite there for fire so there’s big gaps around the state that don’t have that response and then of course when the fire does happen

There’s all kinds of considerations to take into account but if you’re not in a Fire District we were going to acquire you have on-site water so when a fire truck does come they’re coming from far away they’ll have access to something to be able to help protect your house and

Then we’ll ask for a fire safety mitigation plan the kind of details okay well if you can’t meet these standards how can you do a couple extra things maybe put some sprinklers in and then get our fire districts to approve that so we really try to enter involve our

Local fire districts and make sure that new construction is fire safe and here’s a picture of what we currently have identifying some features that you might want to consider making sure you have covered in your house to make it decrease your fire risk and so this will be updated with the more

Modern sign you know specific standards for screens maybe it’s an eighth of an inch instead of a quarter inch so a couple of final slides here just wrapping up a couple of details I mentioned earlier I want to go in a little more depth about it talks about

Unprotected lands well this kind of lays out this is 2011 and actually it’s done a great job since then but here in Washoe County you know we have the Forest Service ODF various fire districts are covering our and the reservation are covering the the western

Side of our state real well but you get up into those agricultural lands is that eastern rangeland and they’re just big red spots on the map you can see across the state there’s a huge swaths of that as well the yellow is a rangeland Fire Protection District which is slightly

Different than a Fire District in there and we’re actually today approving a new rangeland fire protection district in eastern watch ok and there’s another one on consideration just north of that so we’re starting to clear up some of these red spaces so that we have that in place

And so that there’s more coordinated response so standards are up there because currently you know the ranchers do a great job of fighting fires out there the ranch trucks they know how to put it out they work together but they don’t it’s another agent if it’s known

These big fire substation fire you know you can’t communicate with them you don’t have the same radios you don’t have the same training they don’t have the same requirements so they might not know that a fire changing direction is better and then they’re at risk and so

That’s great example that this year with the one life that we lost on the substation fire and so wanting to make sure these fire districts are established so that we have that interconnectivity between our districts so promoting that your in your county or areas vital in the west and the last

Piece of information here mentions building codes a couple of times currently they don’t do a whole lot in Oregon you know they have a routing requirement which is important of fire resistant roof one of the best ways to protect your house but they are approving Appendix W which unfortunately is optional but at

Least it’s a start they tried to do this a couple years ago and the Home Builders Association put a big fight back push back hard there were some quotes you know it’s going to cost twelve thousand extra dollars per house and so all this you know affordable housing is a big

Deal and so we don’t want to add all this onerous regulation but actually you know report was just released that lays out the actual cost did the research looked at four major areas and pointed out okay its equity actually a negligible difference in some cases less to do more fire states having that

Cement siding versus cedar is going to be you know major increase in protection and actually a little cheaper and easier to maintain it cetera so Penix w coming out next year so this is where the fight is going to happen well you know the counties are gonna have to each on board

This locally so they’ll be you know some pushback there but hopefully we’ll be able to have enough information from our recent work with ce pas and some other groups in the studies that we’ve been looking at to be able to show hey this is great for our county great for our

Community and we really need to decrease that at risk to wildfire here’s a couple of resources for you so when these slides come out you’ll be able to access those don’t feel like you have to write down all those websites right now these plan update materials were really useful

For me before I started working with the LCD as far as understanding what it is we had to do step by step to update our NH MP and finally here’s our contact info so that’s that’s all I have for you I believe we’ll leave this slide up and

Christine ready to take some questions wonderful okay we have just a few minutes so I’m just kind of cherry picking a couple here if your question doesn’t get answered just feel free to reach out to our speakers first question in preparation of climate change impacts such as heat islands within urban places

We are promoting vegetation this seems to be in conflict with fire prevention measure what do you recommend yeah I’ll speak to that real quickly one of the major influences on the substation fire going so big this year is CRP practices so it’s a conservation resource program I

Think is federal might be part of the 2014 farm bill and they’re looking at updating this year but in case it’s a new way to farm kind of they started doing no-till farming leaving kind of lands let them grow a little bit helps with soil it helps water but it created

A continuous bed of fuel and so you know it is dynamic because you have to look at the benefits that you get from something like that protect that vegetation can be important to maintaining that water supply and climate change is going to have effect on water supply but in the drought hits

And a fire starts it all burns burns away and so I think it’s going to be an important balancing act to create that vegetative cover in a sensible way but also maintain some sort of fire brakes because previously you know they’d have these tilled fields the fire would just

Stop that was not the cases here I will just tack onto that too that this is a great question and there are a couple things to think about one would be the type of vegetation that you’re putting in place so often decisions is not a

Rule but often just did us trees will be more fire resistant and it goes back to that plant list idea that I shared is you know working with your local Forester or Cooperative Extension Service to identify what kind of vegetation would be most appropriate and also where to locate that vegetation so

You aren’t necessarily if you’re increasing vegetation within an urban area you still want to maintain some distances between structures and then on the structural side you know looking at what ways you might want to change the some of the structural features so that they are more ignition resistant so both

On the landscaping side and the structural side there’s definitely ways to accommodate you know both and increasing the vegetation for climate change emission reductions but also making sure you’re not increasing you know your vulnerability to wildfires you okay thank you next question are there good guidelines for above-ground

Cisterns for water storage are there examples of fire proofing standards for residential development such as concrete siding etc yes the short answer is yes there are and I mentioned this just briefly but there’s going to be a lot more detail in the TAS report the International Code Council has a wildland-urban interface

Model code it’s available online for free to view so you do have to purchase it I think if you want to download it but anyone can actually view it so we refer to it as the Lewy code it’s the International Code Council wildland-urban interface code as well as the National Fire Protection Association

NFPA also has standards for water supply and storage and those are all fine again both of these will be in the PAS report for reference but you can google NFPA technical standards or ICC whooaaa code and also this is again the opportunity to approach you know if you

Have a local fire marshal or a fire chief that you can communicate with they’ll be very familiar with how to access these kind of standards okay thank you next question any suggestions for addressing mitigation in rural subdivisions in the Louie that have been in place for decades or for maintaining the

Vegetation management on an ongoing basis any ideas to encourage property owners to do mitigation individually and on a larger community basis in their area yeah that’s that’s definitely a challenge you know we when somebody comes to apply for a new house we give them the chapter we give them a check

Off all these boxes on their fire safety self certification checklist and say yes I’m going to do these things and we put a condition of approval in their application that they will maintain it and then it’s reported and feeds however there’s we don’t have a follow up you

Know the small county small budget possibly that doesn’t enable us to go out and check these regularly we rely on our partners the fire districts to help maintain those in their areas there are some programs at the state level that we can have that some homeowners apply to

Through ODF the Oregon Department of Forestry but as far as ensuring that they’re ongoing you know our only we have kind of that one thing says yes you’re you said you’re going to do it so hopefully we’ll but no way to follow up there are some good examples of some

Programs I’m going to call out project wildfire Deschutes County they are grant funded program Allison Greene I believe is the one who runs that program is a good presentation a recent conference where I talked about she has a 27 member steering committee if nine I think CW TPS that they keep

Updated throughout the county in their various communities but they also receive grants to go out and help people accomplish that defensible space and really help prioritize where to hit and so do a little research into what they’re doing and then Bend in general is kind of on the forefront of when they

Approve a subdivision doing some really good regular to ensure that they’re built and and there’s some kind of tool in there to maintain that either through a homeowner’s association requirement or some kind of fun setup at the outset so there’s a couple examples down there in

Central Oregon to look for I would just quickly tack on to that there’s some really great national resources that are also for free the National Fire Protection Association spire wise program has some really good downloadable education and outreach resources which highlight particularly for homeowners what they can do on their

Properties to maintain defensible space and they encourage homeowners to work together in neighborhoods that are these existing neighborhoods other states will have a lot of good resources so contact your state forestry department and or look online and the chances are very high that they will have some really

Good free materials that you can use to supplement you know we always advocate for any regulations you put in place have to be supplemented by education outreach so there’s a lot of good existing material out there that target homeowners and property owners for maintenance okay with that I’m gonna go ahead and

Close this up so thanks to will and Molly and Christine for joining us today much appreciated and I’m so glad that we were able to finally get this done and we we did it without any flaws and so thank you and this was a great topic and

Very timely again everyone just as a reminder that we’ll have this recorded up on our YouTube page and we’ll have a PDF copy of it on our web cast web page just visit ohio planning org slash planning web cast alright everyone thanks and this was it

For 2018 so we’ll see everyone in 2019 thank you thank you

ID: sUWO4MHak80
Time: 1544109834
Date: 2018-12-06 18:53:54
Duration: 01:29:20

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