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The Cohesive Strategy

The Cohesive Strategy. Need for a Cohesive Fire Management Strategy. For over 20 years, the Government Accountability Office, Office of Management and Budgets, Congress, a variety of stakeholders and various administrations have expressed concerns related to wildland fire management. .

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The Cohesive Strategy

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  1. The Cohesive Strategy

  2. Need for a Cohesive Fire Management Strategy • For over 20 years, the Government Accountability Office, Office of Management and Budgets, Congress, a variety of stakeholders and various administrations have expressed concerns related to wildland fire management.

  3. Wildland Fire Management Concerns • Ever larger portions of public funds being diverted to fire suppression efforts • Difference in policies and varied approaches to the same problems • Lack of consistent and transparent prioritization process for the allocation of fire funding

  4. Wildland Fire Management Concerns • “Lack of a cohesive fire management strategy” • Critical stakeholders were not a key component of previous efforts

  5. The FLAME Act • 2009 Federal Land Assistance, Management and Enhancement Act (FLAME)

  6. FLAME Components • Direct the Development of a Cohesive Strategy • The identification of the most cost effective means for allocating fire management budget resources • The reinvestment in non-fire programs by the Secretary of the Interior and the Secretary of Agriculture • Employing the most appropriate management response to wildfires

  7. FLAME Components • Direct the Development of a Cohesive Strategy • Assessing and addressing the level of risks to communities • The allocation of hazardous fuels reduction funds based on the priority of hazardous fuels reduction projects • Assessing and addressing the impacts of climate change on the frequency and severity of wildfire • Studying the effects of invasive species on wildfire risk

  8. What is Different from Previous Efforts? • 1995 Federal Fire Policy • National Fire Plan • 10 Year Comprehensive Strategy • Two recent Quadrennial Fire Reviews

  9. What is Different from Previous Efforts? • Nationally • Decision making includes all stakeholders • This is an all lands, all hands effort • Broad stakeholder participation is critical to success

  10. What is Different from Previous Efforts? • Goal One: Healthy and Resilient Landscapes • Enhance opportunities for local, collaborative efforts • Local economic-based opportunities • Fully use existing policy and authorities • Responsibility resides with all stakeholders at all levels

  11. What is Different from Previous Efforts? • Goal Two: Fire Adapted Communities • Fire Adapted Communities are broader than just the Wildland Urban Interface • Prioritize and support active community driven efforts • Use education and incentives to ensure maximum participation • Responsibility resides with all stakeholders at all levels

  12. What is Different from Previous Efforts? • Goal Three: Fire Response • Provide for safety of firefighters and the public • Collaborative effort to determine approach to risk and values at the local level • Improve the effectiveness and efficiency of the wildland fire management organization • Responsibility resides with all stakeholders at all levels

  13. Phase III - Conceptual into Qualitative and Quantitative Actions Step B Linkages Contributing Factors Step A Characterize Risk Risk Step C Exploratory Analysis > Opportunities/Barriers Step D Specific Alternatives Step E More Complete Analysis: Quantitative, Qualitative local contribution, costs, external drivers, climate Step F Synthesize and Report

  14. Phase III - Outcomes and Consequences • Responsibility resides with all stakeholders at all levels.

  15. Phase III - Outcomes and Consequences • A collaborative environment where everyone engaged and affected by wildfire: • Works toward common goals • Is aware of wildland fire risks and opportunities to address risks • Makes decisions with compatible-cohesive information • Contributes to reducing risks

  16. Phase III - Outcomes and Consequences • A policy environment that: • Recognizes opportunities to reduce risk • Rewards successful efforts to reduce risk • Recognizes barriers that prevent achieving common goals • Chips away at the barriers - an iterative process with adaptive learning

  17. Phase III - Outcomes and Consequences • A science environment that enhances multi-scale understanding of: • Wildfire risks to important values • Opportunities to reduce risk • Trade-offs among options intended to reduce risks

  18. Phase III - Outcomes and Consequences • A decision making environment where: • Complementary decisions are possible among agencies and organizations at all scales - local, regional and national • Risks are reduced and managed • Three broad common goals influence outcomes

  19. The National Website www.forestsandrangelands.gov

  20. Regional Contacts • Southeastern Regional Strategy Committee • http://sites.nemac.org/southeastcohesivefire/ • Northeastern Regional Strategy Committee • http://sites.nemac.org/northeastcohesivefire/ • Western Regional Strategy Committee • http://sites.nemac.org/westcohesivefire/

  21. Questions?

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