National Wildfire Coordinating Group

Wildland Fire Education Working Team (WFEWT)

 

Budget Proposal and Planning Strategy – 2006-2008

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Team Mission

To provide leadership in the development, implementation and continuity of national level wildland fire education programs.

Goals

Goal 1. The team has all the resources it needs to function in an effective manner.

Budget: FY 2006 – $20,000 – State travel
  FY 2007 – $25,000 – State travel
  FY 2008 – $25,000 – State travel

Goal 2. The public is aware of the role of fire in ecosystems.

A national messaging project focusing on the role of fire in ecosystems is coordinated by the WFEWT.

  • Implementation of the message campaign begun in FY 2004 continues into FY 2007
Budget: FY 2006 – $140,000
  FY 2007 – $150,000
  FY 2008 – $160,000
  • Targeted educational deliverables for the National Fire Messaging project
Budget: FY 2006 – $120,000
  FY 2007 – $130,000
  FY 2008 – $140,000

Goal 3. Fire prevention and education teams are fully integrated into the fire organization.

  • Program of work follows previously approved document.
Budget: FY 2006 – $50,000 Contract coordinator

Goal 4. Team products and services are timely, effective and used.

  • Development of a field guide for fire prevention.
Budget: FY 2006 – $30,000
  • Prevention Training Development – for basic, intermediate and advanced course work
Budget: FY 2006 – $30,000
  FY 2007 – $30,000
  FY 2008– $30,000

Goal 5. Develop and implement a baseline assessment to measure the effectiveness of our mission accomplishment.

Budget: FY 2007– $125,000

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Proposed Budget Summary

FY 2006

 

State travel

$20,000

National Fire Message Project

$140,000

National Fire Messaging Project deliverables

$120,000

Fire prevention Handbook

$30,000

Prevention training development

$30,000

NPFET Coordination

$50,000

   

FY 2007

 

State travel

$25,000

National Fire Message Project

$150,000

National Fire Messaging Project deliverables

$130,000

Prevention training development

$30,000

National assessment

$125,000

   

FY 2008

 

State travel

$25,000

National Fire Message Project

$160,000

National Fire Messaging Project deliverables

$140,000

Prevention Training Development

$30,000


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Budget Proposal FY 2006

Project

Cost

Measurable project outputs

Continuing/

New Project

Team Priority

Agency & individual to do the work

State travel for the NASF and NFPA members to attend three working team meetings and task group meetings

$25,000

Attendance at meetings and participation in working team projects

Continuing

1

USDA-FS, NIFC

Gayle Stilton Working team chair

National Fire Message Project

Implementation of a comprehensive nationwide campaign for the delivery of the Fire Use Messages. This contracted project will widely transmit contemporary and enlivened messages about the important role of fire as a natural process and the risks and consequences of its use and exclusion. The multi-year project will assure consistent messages that will build public trust and achieve positive opinion.

$140,000

Professional product implemented as a multi-year project. Increased awareness of the public (both internal and external) about the fire use messages

Continuing

2

USFS

Team chair

National Fire Messaging Project Deliverables

This project is for the development of nationally distributed materials to reach specifically targeted audiences identified in the National Fire Messaging Plan. One product each year

$120,000

Product such as the weekly reader

Continuing

3

USDA-FS

Team chair/

Contracted

Fire Prevention Field Guide development -

The WFEWT developed 12 training guides over the course of three budget years (app. 1995-1997) that are designed to assist field personnel in their fire prevention activities. These guides will be revised and consolidated into a field guide for the use of FPOs and IOFs.

$30,000

The project will produce a Fire Prevention field guide.

New

4

USDA-FS

Team project

Fire Prevention Training Development

$30,000

This project will produce the first of three fire prevention training guides

New

6

USDA-FS

National Fire Prevention and Education Teams project

The WFEWT will provide oversight and coordinate the development of the NFPET into the national resource ordering system. This budget item will pay for a contract coordinator for the NFPET. Project follows the strategic plan prepared for and approved by the NWCG

$50,000

Completed tasks as outlined in the strategy – Coordination of Fire Prevention and Education teams

Continuing –

5

USFS

Team Chair

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