The Student Conservation Association

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The Student Conservation Association

changing lives through service to naturechanging lives through service to nature

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Kassy Theobald, FIREMON Project Leader – Coeur d’Alene Tribe

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Who we are

• Conservation organization– Founded 1957 by Liz

Titus Putnam

• Cooperate with and aid land management agencies

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What we do• Provide agencies with

the man power and knowledge

• Provide young people with professional development experience

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Organization

• Conservation Interns• Crews• Urban• Corps

• Wildland Fire Corps• FIREMON• FireEd• Landfire

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FEC Tasks

• Home Assessments• Community Events• Local Media• Environmental Ed• Interpretive and

Cultural Materials• Prevention Plans

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FEC Tasks Continued

• FireWise• Fuels

Reductions• Prescribed

Burns• Fire

Suppression

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FIREMON• Role of FIREMON

• History

– National Fire Plan

– CSKT in Montana

– 2005

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Where FIREMON is today• Coeur d’Alene Tribe• Nez Perce Tribe• Zuni Agency• Mescalero Apache Tribe

and Agency• Eastern OK Region• Concho Agency and

Horton Agency• Minnesota Agency• Great Lakes Agency

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Requirements for an SCA crew• Fuels specialist has attended a FIREMON

training

• A detailed work plan has been submitted

with the application

• The respective Reservation has a fire/fuels

management plan in place

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What we provide• Project leader and

team

• Data collection

– FIREMON

– Technology

– Intern training

• Extras…

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What Agency/Tribe Provides• Local Staff member

– Introduction– Ecology– Progress reports

• Work Plan– Locations– Plots– Equipment– Additional training

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The Data• FIREMON Database• SCA collects:

– Plot description– Tree Data– Fuel Load– Species Composition

• Flexibility

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How we do the work

• Field Skills– Plot set-up

• ArcPad and Trimble Recon– Data entry in the field

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Where does the data go?

• Input to the FIREMON database

• Presented to the Tribe or Agency

• Utilized by the Tribe or Agency for

management decisions

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Outcome

• Quality work done by enthusiastic young

people

• Standard data collection and analysis

across Tribal lands

• Lasting relationships

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