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 reduction
2. 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
componentsa. Promote recovery of T&ES
b. Improve biological diversity
c. 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.
2.
Sharing & review of individual forests, integrated
strategic plans to move watersheds from condition class 2
&3
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.
2.
Sharing & review of individual forests, integrated strategic plans to move
watersheds from condition class 2 & 3
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