Reduce the risk and impact of wildfire to local communities, increase community resilience to wildland fires and improve wildland forest health

The key activities to be performed fall into two main categories. The first is providing a workforce that can assist with hazardous fuels reduction activities. This includes data collection, fuels monitoring and prescribed fire assistance. The second involves assisting and coordinating with interagency and community partners to accomplish community support and provide prevention and mitigation education activities. The activities to be performed include hiring, training and equipping a fully qualified fire crew able to assist with prescribed fire activities and monitor fuels conditions throughout the region. This crew will assist with the full spectrum of fuels treatment projects from thinning to prescribed burning to accomplish actual fuels reduction in the landscape. They will also patrol and monitor the fuels in the area for potential treatment needs. The expected primary deliverables include that the coeur dalene district priority fuels treatments are accomplished in a timely fashion as intended by the infrastructure bill. Beneficiaries include the coeur dalene district of the BLM, interagency partners (NEZ perce-clearwater national forest, payette national forest, idaho panhandle national forests, idaho department of lands and counties throughout north central idaho), neighboring landowners, the general public and local employers and consultants.