Burning Across Boundaries
Project Overview
Basics
Burning Across Boundaries
- Address Climate Change and Extreme Event Effects, Impacts and Vulnerabilities
- Ensure that Disadvantaged and Underrepresented Communities Benefit from Initiatives
- Protect and Enhance Forest Based Carbon
- Respect Local Autonomy and Local Knowledge in NCRP Planning and Implementation
- Work across Jurisdictional Boundaries to Achieve Common Objectives Effectively and Efficiently
NCRP RFFC Demonstration Projects R1
Completed
The purpose of the Burning Across Boundaries Project is to support collaborative planning that can enable tribes and partners throughout the North Coast region to work together in utilizing prescribed fire as a tool for achieving long term forest and ecosystem health. The intended result is the broadening and strengthening of a network of tribal fire practitioners with varying degrees of traditional ecological knowledge (TEK) and fire experience. The proposed project will serve as a model for region-wide peer-to-peer training through the Regional Forest and Fire Capacity Program.
2020
2020
2022
3/24/2024
Project Attributes
General Information
Project Description Narrative (1,000 character limit)
Through targeted outreach with local tribal, state, and federal organizations, the Project Team will plan and execute an array of culturally-responsive workforce development trainings, workshops and meetings with the goal of increasing inter-tribal collaborative burning capacity in the North Coast region. All trainings and workshops will be made available to tribes, interested members of the public, and non-governmental organizations in the North Coast region. Training participants will gain skills in and knowledge of tribal, state and federal regulatory processes around prescribed fire implementation; entry-level firefighting; emerging tools and technologies for prescribed fire.
This project will also initiate cooperative burn agreement processes between federal agencies and the Karuk Tribe within the Karuk Aboriginal Territory. The Karuk Tribe will use this and previous experience to facilitate these processes between federal agencies and other tribal collaborators, where possible.
Solutions
Capacity - Demonstration Projects, Capacity - Tribal Capacity, Capacity - Workforce Development, Fire Resilient Forests - Beneficial Fire Capacity, Fire Resilient Forests - Fuel Management, Fire Resilient Forests - Tribal Cultural Fire
Spatial Information
Tribal Region
North
Project Size (Acres)
None
Location
Karuk Tribe DNR
None Selected
N/A Tribal land
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Contacts
Project Benefit Performance Measures
Expected Project Benefit Performance Measures
| Capacity Enhancement - # of projects | 1 count | |
| Community Health and Safety - # of projects | Project type: Fire hardening & defensible space | 1 count |
| Education & Outreach - # of events | 3 | |
| Environmental justice and social equity - # of projects | Activity focus: Capacity building | 1 count |
| Honoring & incorporating Tribal priorities - # of projects | 1 count | |
| Job & Workforce Training - # events | 1 | |
| Jobs created or retained (FTE) | 1 |
Reported Project Benefit Performance Measures
| Capacity Enhancement - # of projects | ||
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| 2022 | Units | |
| 1 | count | |
| Total | 1 | count |
| Community Health and Safety - # of projects | ||
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| Project type | 2022 | Units |
| Fire hardening & defensible space | 1 | count |
| Total | 1 | count |
| Education & Outreach - # of events | ||
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| 2022 | Units | |
| 20 | number | |
| Total | 20 | number |
| Environmental justice and social equity - # of projects | ||
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| Activity focus | 2022 | Units |
| Capacity building | 1 | count |
| Total | 1 | count |
| Honoring & incorporating Tribal priorities - # of projects | ||
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| 2022 | Units | |
| 1 | count | |
| Total | 1 | count |
| Job & Workforce Training - # events | ||
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| 2022 | Units | |
| 1 | number | |
| Total | 1 | number |
| Jobs created or retained (FTE) | ||
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| 2022 | Units | |
| 1 | number | |
| Total | 1 | number |
Financials
Budget
| Comment: | None provided |
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Reported Expenditures
| 2020 | 2021 | 2022 | Total | |
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| Matching Funds (Matching Funds) | $0.00 | $0.00 | $23,708.00 | $23,708.00 |
| Regional Forest and Fire Capacity Program (CA Dept of Conservation) | $0.00 | $0.00 | $94,495.00 | $94,495.00 |
| Grand Total | $0.00 | $0.00 | $118,203.00 | $118,203.00 |
| Note: | The COVID-19 pandemic and employee retention during the project period were incredibly challenging and ultimately, the project could not be fully implemented as originally intended and about half of the awarded grant funds were returned. |
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Project Types
Project Types
This project will provide cultural fire training geared towards Tribal members, but available to the general public.; This project will conduct a minimum of three collaborative workshops about cultural burns, state and federal regulatory processes, fuels reduction and/or related topics.; This project will provide cultural fire training geared towards Tribal members, but available to the general public. Training certificates will be provided.
This project increases regional capacity to adapt to climate change through capacity building for cultural burning. By increasing the pace and scale of cultural burning, forests will be more resilient to the hotter, drier climate predicted.
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Burning Across Boundaries
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- 10/28/2022
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