Community Wildfire Protection Plans (CWPP) Links

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Curry County Community Wildfire Protection Plan Meeting
(August 2007)
Photo by Kathy Lynn

General Resources

• Healthy Forests and Rangelands Website
• California Fire Alliance - CWPP Resources
• Firewise website
• Firewise Communities/USA
• The Fire Safe Councils
• The Healthy Forests Initiative and Healthy Forests Restoration Act
• International Association of Fire Chief’s Leader’s Guide for Developing a Community Wildfire Protection Plan [pdf]
• National Database of State and Local Wildfire Mitigation Programs, a source for information on ordinances
• Tribal Wildfire Resource Guide (2006), Intertribal Timber Council
• United States Forest Service website
• US Department of Interior website

Collaboration

• The Collaboration Handbook, Red Lodge Clearinghouse
• BLM Partnership Web Site
• Ecosystem Management Initiative at the University of Michigan
• Western Collaborative Assistance Network (WestCAN)
• Forest Service Partnership Resource Center
• Joint Fire Sciences Collaboration and CWPPs
• Joint Fire Sciences Collaboration and fuels resources
• Rural Voices for Conservation Coalition (Collaboration issue paper)
• Strategies for assisting low-income and underserved communities develop and implement CWPPs

Reducing Structural Ignitability

Josephine County Integrated Fire Plan
Special needs fuels reduction project
(September 2006)
Photo by: Joe Anderson

• Australian Safe in Place information
• California Ignition-Resistant Building and Fire Codes
• Firewise Guide to Landscape and Construction, booklet
• “Colorado, Are You Firewise?” Guide [pdf]
• Firewise Construction and Design Materials, Peter Slack, Colorado State Forest Service, 2000. [pdf]
• Wildfire! Preventing Home Ignitions DVD – explains the research of Jack Cohen, US Forest Service, on how homes ignite and how to minimize potential for ignition.

Fuels Reduction and Restoration Resources

• The National Association of State Foresters Field Guidance for Identifying and Prioritizing Communities at Risk [pdf]
• Management Tools for CWPP Implementation
• Woody Biomass Utilization Desk Guide [pdf]
• US Forest Service Stewardship Contracting Resource page
• USFS Wildland Fire Use
• Biomass Producer or Collector Tax Credits (HB2210)
• Community Guide to Biomass Heat 

Monitoring and Evaluation Resources

• Community Wildfire Protection Plan Monitoring and Evaluation Guide
• Firemon
• Rural Voices for Conservation Coalition – Multiparty Monitoring Issue Paper
• US Forest Service Collaborative Restoration Program – Multiparty Monitoring Guidelines
• Red Lodge Clearinghouse

Federal Agencies

• Forest Service
  • Forest Service Renewable Resources Handbook [doc]
  • Forest Service Partnership Resource Center
  • Forest Service Partnership Guide
  • Forest Service Stewardship Contracting website
  • Region 6 Stewardship Contracting website
• Bureau of Land Management
  • Collaboration Desk Guide [pdf]
• National Park Service
  • Community Tool Box

Non-Profits

• Red Lodge Clearinghouse
  • Red Lodge Clearinghouse homepage
  • The Collaboration Handbook [pdf]
• Sustainable Northwest
  • Best Value and Stewardship Contracting Guidebook [pdf]
  • 2005 Stewardship Contracting Roundtable Report, USDA Forest Service Region 6 [pdf]
  • Forest Service Contracting: A Basic Guide for Restoration Practitioners [pdf]
  • Stewardship Contracting Resources
• Flathead Economic Policy Center
  • Best Value and Stewardship Contracting Guidebook [pdf]
• Resource Innovations, University of Oregon Institute for a Sustainable Environment
  • Community Capacity and the Environment Program: collaborative stewardship contracting groups
• Pinchot Institute
  • Quick Guide to Collaboration and the NEPA Process
• Western Collaborative Assistance Network (WestCAN)
  • Western Collaborative Assistance Network homepage
  • Resource library

Universities

• University of Michigan, School of Natural Resources and Environment
  • Ecosystem Management Initiative
  • Step-by-step guidance on collaboration
• University of Northern Arizona
  • Ecological Restoration Institute

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