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Oregon Department of Forestry

Fire Protection Funding Committee
Committee Information
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Members:

PhilAdamsRoseburg Lumber Products
ArtAyreOregon Dept of Administrative Services
PaulBellOregon Dept of Forestry
BrettBrownscombeOffice of the Governor
KenCummingsEmergency Fire Cost Committee Chair
MikeDykzeulOregon Forest Industries Council
LeeFledderjohannCollins Pine Co
NancyHirschOregon Dept of Forestry
JimJamesOregon Small Woodland Owners Association
SusanJordanLegislative Fiscal Office
BobMessingerMember - NEO District Budget Committee
MiltMoranOFIC Protection Committee
RaySesslerOregon Cattlemen's Association
PeterSikoraGiustina Resources
GarySpringerOregon Board of Forestry Member
RexStormAssociated Oregon Loggers
BillSwartsCascade Timberlands LLC
JeffVermilyaHancock Forest Management
 
 
Committee Membership Contact Info


ODF Staff Support

Committee Charter 

Potential Evaluation Criteria Updated!  

Meeting Information
Meeting Schedule

Ground Rules

Agendas
November 09, 2011 
December 14, 2011
January 19-20, 2012 
February 22, 2012 
 
Meeting Notes
November 09, 2011 
December 14, 2011 
January 19-20, 2012 
February 22, 2012  Updated Draft for Review! 

Mileage Reimbursement Information

Presentations
Charter Overview

History of Fire Funding

Fire Funding Overview, Drivers and Influences

Large Fire Costs 
 
Western Oregon District Report
 
Central Oregon District Report

Funding Alternative Schematic
 
Policy Questions Associated With Fire Suppression Funding Proposal
Information/Data Requests
During the meetings, the Committee requested additional information regarding funding and other related questions. The information requests are categorized below. Data will continue to be added as soon as it is available.
 
Forestland Classification
 
SB360 - Wildland Urban Interface Act
Protection District Information
  • What are the landowner rates by district over the last ten years? District Rate History 
  • What are the 1) actual acreage, and 2) percentage splits between grazing and timber by district? Timber/Grazing Acres by District 
  • What are the fire costs by district over the last ten years? How much was ODF vs feds managed incidents? District Fire Costs 
  • What are the number of improved lots per district/and trend line over the last ten years? Project potential thoughts on what it might be with the updated forestland classification processes. Improved Lots by District 
  • Is there more history on the reason for the 75/25 split allocation for timber & grazing lands on the eastside?   ***In Development***
  • Breakdown of landowner caused vs non-landowner caused fires for various districts. Chart Data 
  • Breakdown of fire events and expenses vs budgets on COD differentiating between the different units. Fire Costs/Unit Budgets 
 
Oregon Forestland Protection Fund (OFLPF) 
 
Fire Environment
  • Amount of lightning/district on the four large fire districts from 2000 forward.  Lightning/District   Lightning/Year 
  • Fire starts by source/by district from 2000 forward. Fire Cause
  • Large fire suppression costs on ODF protected lands in 2011 and the average annual cost for large fire suppression over 10 years prior Suppression Cost Summary 
  • Breakdown of miscellaneous 16% of human caused fires. Specific Misc Cause
  • Human caused fires time of year occurrences. Fires/Month
  • Energy Release Component overlay on Travis’ Key Performance Measures analysis KPM 
  • Analysis of the large fires in the four large four districts to ID root cause Root Cause 
 
Legislator Contact Information 

Wildfire Reduction Act

Department Budget 

Rangeland
 
FEMA 
  • FEMA contributions/year (as funding source) -> size, scope, trends, % of total bill. Bar chart of revenue received by year with bullets explaining erratic nature of payments, also include reimbursement going back to OFLPF.  FEMA Revenue  
 
USFS  
  • How do you get the feds to better participate in solutions to the big problems of increasing fire suppression costs and initial attack resources? This is cleary a big part of the problem in the large fire districts. How can we change that equation? Federal Government Contributions to Fire Protection in Oregon 
Key Performance Measures
 
Costs 
  • What do district foresters think is needed for SPA and statewide severity? How much do you need in severity to meet objective #1? Severity
  • What would be the percentage reduction in GF budgets of the Big 3 (Education, Medication, Incarceration) if the GF was the funding mechanism to meet the objectives of the committee? Natural Resource Agencies Funding Trend
  • Dollars spent over the past ten years from OFLPF vs GF.   OFLPF & Severity