Section One: How to Use this Guide
I. How to Use this Guide
II. Guidebook Organization
III. Guidebook Types of Information and Formatting
IV. Create Your Plan!
V. Credits and Acknowledgement
Section Two: Executive Summary and Action Plan
I. Signature Page
II. Executive Summary and Action Plan Introduction
II.A. Plan Goals, Introduction, and Background
II.B. Fire Planning Process Overview
II.C. Fire Safety and Defensible Space
II.D. Wildfire Environment
II.E. Fire Protection Organizations
II.F. [Place] Risk Assessment
III. [Place] Fire Safe Action Plan
III.A. Existing Projects and Actions
III.B. Action Plan Summary
IV. Facilitating [Place] Fire Safety in the Long Term
IV.A. Monitoring and Maintenance
IV.B. Updating This Plan
IV.C. Needed Resources
V. Acknowledgements
Section Three: Appendices
1. [Place] Community Conservation and Wildfire Protection Plan Introduction
1.1. [Plan Name] Fire Plan Purpose
1.2. Organization of This Document
1.3. Conservation Principles for Community Wildfire Protection in California’s Sierra Nevada
1.4. Introduction to [Place], California
1.5. [Place] Communities at Risk
1.6. [Place] Fire Protection Areas and Agencies
1.7. Introduction to [Place] Fire Safe Council
1.8. Fire Safety Objectives
2. [Place]Fire Safe Planning Process
2.1. Planning Area Boundaries
2.2. Process and Plan Development
2.3. Stakeholders
3. Wildfire: Current Environment and Behavior
3.1. Introduction: Defining the Wildfire Problem
3.2. Fire Behavior Characteristics
3.3. General Wildfire Environment Description
3.4. Fuel: Description of Fuel Through Fuel Models
3.5. Fire History
3.6. Fire Hazard
3.7. Fire Regime
3.8. Fire Threat
3.9. Changing Fuels in the Wildland Urban Interface
4. Fire Ecology and Management of Sierra Nevada Vegetation Types
4.1. Grassland
4.2. Foothill and Montane Chaparral
4.3. Foothill Woodland
4.4. Ponderosa Pine and Mixed Conifer
4.5. Upper-Elevation Fir Forests: Red Fir and White Fir
4.6. Montane Meadows
4.7. Sagebrush and Bitterbrush
5. [Place] Community Features
5.1. Social and Political Setting
5.2. Public, Tribal, and Industrial Lands Fire Management
5.3. Community Planning Context
5.4. Community Infrastructure to Address and Implement Objectives
6. Fire Protection Organizations
6.1. Local Fire Agencies
6.2. California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection
6.3. Federal Fire Agencies
6.4. Tribal Fire Agencies
7. Risk Assessment: Identifying and Evaluating Assets at Risk
7.1. Assets at Risk in [Your Planning Area]
7.2. Assessing Risks in [the Planning Area]
8. Meeting Your Objectives: [Place] Fire Safe Action Plan
8.1. Summary of Objectives
8.2. Community-Identified Potential Projects
8.3. Existing Projects and Actions
8.4. Proposed Actions
8.5. Project Prioritization and Timing
8.6. Action Plan Summary
9. Facilitating [Place] Fire Safety in the Long Term
9.1. Monitoring
9.2. Project Maintenance
9.3. Updating This Plan
9.4. Resources Needed to Support Ongoing Efforts
Section Four: Project Files
PF1 – Planning Process
Community Outreach Materials
Community Meeting Notes
Public Comments Received on Draft Documents
PF2 – Community Meeting Input
Outreach Survey Results
Community-Generated Maps
PF3 – GIS Data Layers and Mapping Information
PF4 – Fire Protection Agency Surveys
PF5 – Public Lands Fire Management Background Information
Section Five: References
Reference A – Glossary
Reference B – Internet Links for Further Information
Reference C – Literature Cited
Section Six: Conservation and Wildfire Background Materials
Background A – Conservation Principles for Community Wildfire Protection in California’s Sierra Nevada
Background B – Wildland Fire Safety at Home
B.1. Before the Fire
B.2. During the Fire
B.3. After the Fire
Background C – Wildland Fuel Hazard Reduction
C.1. What is Ecological Fuel Reduction?
C.2. What to Do with Thinned Materials
Background D – Fire Safety Information
Sections Seven: Fire Planning Instructions
Instructions A – How to Organize Community Fire Safety Meetings
Instructions B – Community Meeting Outreach Mailing and Survey
Instructions C – Community Meeting Mapping Instructions
Instructions D – Creating Maps with Fire Planning and Mapping Tools Website
Instructions E – Fire Protection Survey Form
Instructions F – Updated Project List and Plan Update Signature Page
Instructions G – Sierra Fire Safe Councils
Instructions H – Sierra Community Fire Plans
OOPS! We accidentally refer to cross-references within the Appendices as “sections.” When you see a reference to “Section 5.2,” that means go to Appendix 5, subheading 5.2, which of course, is all part of Section 3. Sorry for the confusion!
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