 | New Team Member - Tom Larsen (California Department of Forestry) replaces
Ken Nehoda (California Department of Forestry) as the Team's Western states
representative. |
| Prescribed Fire Planning -
 | NWCG has tasked the FUWT with establishing prescribed fire planning and
prescribed fire planning training standards |
| It is envisioned that this will be a prescribed fire planning function rather than 310-1 individual
position |
| The FUWT will develop standard framework for prescribed fire planning (e.g.,
Wildland and Prescribed Fire Management Policy: Implementation
Procedures Reference Guide: Chapter 4 Prescribed Fire Implementation -
Prescribed fire planning) including minimum standardize basic elements of prescribed fire planning (e.g.,
prescriptive elements, holding, objectives, contingency resources,
monitoring, etc.) and a training instrument for teaching basic
prescribed fire planning including interdisciplinary prescribed fire
planning team organization and team leadership direction
 | Training may resemble RX-410 (Smoke Management) or Fire Management for
Agency Administrators |
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| Agency's will still be responsible for establishing individual planner
qualifications and responsibilities and agency specific prescribed fire
planning if needed. |
| Investigate interaction with RX-300 |
| Coordinate activities with TWT and IOSWT |
| ACTION
| FUWT members will query agencies with concept |
| Flesh out concept at next FUWT meeting - establish SME task
group |
| Coordinate activities with TWT and IOSWT at February joint meeting |
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| Prescribed Fire Complexity Analysis/Risk Analysis/Go-No/Go Checklist
| NWCG has requested the FUWT to develop an interagency standard
complexity/risk analysis and Go-No/Go checklist. |
| BLM has expanded the existing NWCG Complexity Analysis to include descriptions
of consequences of escape and technical difficulty, an addition of
decision rational to be used in mitigation measures, and refined rating
format |
| USFS is developing a prescribed fire risk assessment process which incorporates
complexity analysis and is used in Go-No/Go Checklist |
| USFS is also developing a programmatic "risk analysis" for
wildland fire (transition from initial attack to large fire take over)
and wildland fire use |
| Each Federal agency (except USFS) has an agency specific Go-No/Go
Checklist |
| Final recommendations will include:
| Update existing NWCG Contingency Analysis with BLM draft -
planning assessment tool and finalize a minimum standard NWCG Go-No/Go Checklist for
presentation to NWCG in January |
| Continue to develop the Risk Analysis as a real time implementation reassessment tool
to integrate with the complexity analysis and Go-No/Go checklist -
estimated completion date (Spring 2002) |
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| Contingency definitions
| NWCG has requested the FUWT to develop a definition for contingency
resource |
| Definitions for contingency resource and contingency plan were
developed and will be provide NWCG in January.
| Contingency resource - Planned and identified fire suppression
personnel and/or equipment that mitigate possible but unlikely events
that exceeds or are expected to exceed holding resource capabilities. |
| Contingency plan - Portion of the prescribed fire plan that identifies
possible but unlikely events and the contingency resources needed to
mitigate those events. |
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| Prescribed Fire in Resource Management (video) review
| ACTION
| The existing supply of videos in PMS will get a disclaimer about
the obsolete term "prescribed natural fire" and the video
will be revised (renarration) to eliminate prescribed natural fire. |
| FUWT will begin to develop an additional video that addresses the NWCG
fire use message and other emerging issues - finalize concept at
June 2002 meeting. |
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| Smoke Management Guide - Everything completed except 3 sections with
quality layout. |
| NWCG Glossary of Terms
| ACTION
| Send review status and action plan to IOSWT |
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| Annual Budget/Strategic Plan
| Video |
| 150 thank you copies of the Smoke Management Plan for participations. |
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| Next Business Meeting - Boise, Idaho, June 4-6, 2002. |
