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Responsibilities
Douglas County
The Douglas County Wildfire Mitigation Staff and Office of Emergency Management will be the lead agency representatives for this process and will be responsible for the following:
- Serve on the DC CWPP Core Team
- Facilitate and coordinate the over-all CWPP process with the Colorado State Forest Service, Local Fire Protection Districts, Federal Agencies, and other key stakeholders.
- Develop county-wide base map(s).
- Conduct a landscape-scale Hazard, Values, and Risk Assessment for all lands within Douglas County.
- Conduct a project-level Hazards, Values, Risk assessment for county-owned properties.
- Assist fire departments in providing general discussions and assessments of their departments.
- Work with appropriate DC departments and staff to develop a project-specific implementation plan for county-owned properties.
- Provide technical expertise in developing prescriptions for wildfire mitigation treatments.
- Assemble and maintain the final CWPP document.
Fire Departments
- Serve on DC CWPP Core Team
- Provide input on the assessment process and feedback specific to your district for Hazard, Values, Risk assessments.
- Provide information on past, current, and future mitigation efforts within your district.
- Provide to document a general discussion of your department and district including its history, size, structure, response statistics, equipment, stations, services, water systems, ignition sources, and any other pertinent information.
- Provide to document an objective assessment of your department’s wildland fire program (including training, prevention, suppression, etc.) identifying its adequacies, future goals, and areas for improvement (training, personnel, equipment, etc.). Emphasize on areas where grant funding can be utilized.
Colorado State Forest Service
- Serve on DC CWPP Core Team.
- Provide oversight of the CWPP process.
- Provide guidance and technical expertise for CWPP development.
- Provide technical expertise in developing prescriptions for wildfire mitigation treatments.
- Provide information on past, current, and future mitigation efforts around county.
USDA Forest Service
- Serve on DC CWPP Core Team.
- Provide information to past, current, and future mitigation work being conducted on Forest Services properties within Douglas County.
- Provide to document general discussion on Forest Service wildfire program (suppression, mitigation, training, prevention, etc.).
Joint Tasks
All core team members should work in concert to accomplish the following tasks:
- Identify appropriate landscape-scale hazard reduction areas throughout Douglas County.
- Identify WUI boundaries throughout Douglas County.
- Develop an Implementation Plan for this project. Decision will need to be made if implementation plan will be for entire county or by fire protection districts.
- Facilitate and/or participate in community meetings that will allow the public and other stakeholders to provide input and stay informed about this process.
- Outreach and work to create bottom-up interest in WUI communities to develop smaller-scale CWPPs and project-specific implementation plans.
- Assist interested WUI communities in developing smaller scale CWPPs and executing project-specific implementation plans.