2006-025
NATIONAL FIRE PLAN COMMUNITY ASSISTANCE AND WILDLAND URBAN-INTERFACE PROJECTS
Application for Prevention & Education Projects
Applicant
Applicant/Organization:
Keep Oregon Green Association, Inc.
Phone: (111 111-1111 x 1111) Type of Applicant: ( enter appropriate letter in box )
503-945-7499
FAX: (111 111-1111 x 1111)
503-945-7319
Please Call Ahead For FAX
A. State
B. County
C. Municipal
D. Township
E. Interstate
Address (Street or P. O. Box, City, State, Zip) :
POB 12365 2600 State Street, Bldg E Salem, OR 97309
L
H. Independent School District
I. State-Controlled Institution of Higher Learning
J. Private University
K. Indian Tribe
L. Nonprofit Organization
Project Coordinator (Name and Title):
Ms. Mary Ellen Holly President/CEO
Organization/Jurisdiction:
Keep Oregon Green Association, Inc.
Phone: (111 111-1111 x 1111)
503-945-7499
FAX: (111 111-1111 x 1111)
503-945-7319 Call Ahead For FAX
Project Information
Project Title:
2 Wildfire Prevention PreK-3 curriculum
Proposed Project Start Date:
07/01/2006
Project Coordinator
Email: mholly@odf.state.or.us
Proposed Project End Date:
10/31/2007
Federal Funding Request:
$
100,000
Total Project Funding:
$
207,800
Are you submitting multiple projects? If so, please explain and prioritize:
Project #1, Wildland Urban Interface Brochure
Project #2, Wildfire Prevention PreK-3 Curriculum
Project #3, Pacific NW Interagency Prevention Workshop Scholarships
These projects stand alone and are prioritized as listed above.
Brief Project Summary: Who, What, Where, Desired Outcomes in relation to NFP Goals and Community Risk Assessment and
Mitigation Plans (This should summarize page 2).
Our goal is to develop age-appropriate and teacher friendly public education curricula to modify or change behaviors in students of grades PreK-3 that will result in a reduced number of human-caused fires throughout the state of Oregon.
This curriculum will be developed for school teachers who will teach the lessons and then receive reinforcement by prevention officers as requested. Teachers are our greatest asset to reach the children; and children to reach the parents at home where the fire problem actually occurs. The curricula will be modeled after a very successful structural fire prevention curriculum developed by the National Fire Prevention Association. Each lesson will contain pre- and post-tests, behavioral objectives, teacher information, discussion points, and activity sheets. All lessons will meet Oregon Teaching Curriculum Standards.
Project Location:
Latitude: 44.9245 Longitude: 123.022
County:
Marion
Federal Congressional District:
5
Name of Federal, State or Tribal contact with whom you coordinated this proposal: Telephone number of Contact:
Bureau of Land Management - Lauren Maloney 503-808-6587

x type of project to be delivered x method of delivery x target audience x timeliness x projected timelines and cost estimation x project location x project relationship to community or natural landscape fire plans x tools and/or skills needed to complete project x monitoring and evaluation procedures
For this project, explain the level of cooperation, coordination or strategic planning, through a “Local Coordination
Group.” If you haven’t worked with a local coordination group, why not?
Response:
As a part of the Oregon Department of Forestry's Fire Program Review, Mary Ellen Holly, President/CEO of the Keep Oregon Green Association, chaired the
Prevention Working Group. Representatives from Weyerhaeuser and Boise Cascade, Associated Oregon Loggers, Oregon Small Woodland Owners, The
State Fire Marshal's Office, Eugene Fire and Emergency Medical Services, Jackson County Fire District, and several field and staff members from Oregon
Department of Forestry districts participated. This Group's goal was to review and recommend strategies that will reduce the number and severity of humancaused wildfires and that will encourage every Oregonian to take responsibility for wildfire prevention. The members of this Group have spent over 300 hours in research, discussions, and findings, and remain active in the implementation of our strategic plan. As a result of the research, discussions, and findings of this group, it was determined that consistent and timely awareness messages and education programs are necessary to reduce the number of wildfires in
Oregon. Through a cooperative agreement with ODF, Keep Oregon Green promotes wildfire prevention through awareness and education programs.
Project to be delivered: Wildfire Prevention Curriculum
Method of delivery: Elementary Teachers
Target Audience: Students in Grades PreK - 3
Timeliness: Concurrent with population increases, expanded use of forestland for recreation purposes, and home-site encroachment at the forest interface, there has been an overall decrease in forest health. It is now generally recognized that aggressive suppression of wildfires over the last hundered years has resulted in widespread unnatural accumulations of forest fuels. When combined with ongoing climatic changes, more acreage is at risk and fire behavior is far more extreme when fires do occur. Such fires increasingly threaten or destroy home sites that, in the near past, were not a part of fire fighting strategic planning. Another consideration is the dramatic increase in the cost of suppressing fires. Based on current ten year averages, the Oregon Department of
Forestry [ODF] responds to 762 human-caused fires annually. Each year these fires burn across 7,169 acres and cost almost $14 million to suppress.
Today's firefighting challenges mean more than protecting forest resources; many more homes and structures are involved. Relative to other western states,
Oregon has yet to experience large interface losses; however, based upon the increasing number of homes in the interface and an increase in landownercaused fires, such losses are bound to occur.
Timelines/Cost Estimation/Location: July 1, 2005 - October 31, 2007; $207,800; Statewide implementation.
Relationship to community or natural landscape fire plans:
There is no individual community plan that we are addressing. Keep Oregon Green does state-wide wildfire prevention awareness and education in cooperation with ODF, USFS, and BLM but will be educating the youth of Oregon to reduce the risk of wildfire in the WUI and areas that threaten the WUI.
Tools/skills Needed: Curriculum specialist; Media specialist [DVD/CD teaching aid]; Secretary with PageMaker/Photoshop experience
Monitoring/Evaluation Procedures: The original curriculum will be piloted in four elementary schools [yet to be determined] and edited with teacher suggestions and recommendations. This will provide evaluation of the curriculum development.
In order for children to inherently know the acceptable behavior, they must be able to show and tell an adult what should be done. Pre-tests will be given to students to determine their level of knowledge. Scores will be recorded. After all lessons have been taught and reinforced, the same test will be given again.
Scores will be recorded and the differences in the scores will determine the percentage of knowledge gained. In those areas where the percentage is lower, more emphasis will be given, and post-tests will be readministered. Five- and ten-year fire statistics will be the long-term determinant in the monitoring processs.

1.
Prevention of Wildland Urban Interface Fire (40 points)
Describe how the proposal will lead to:
A. Reduction of wildland urban interface fire
B. Reduction of structural losses
C. Homeowner action and personal responsibility to reduce fire loss of private land.
Response:
This curriculum will reduce the numbers of WUI fires, the numbers of structures lost, and result in personal responsibility to reduce fire loss by providing excellent lessons that will educate children and their parents of the behavioral modifications or changes they need to adopt if they wish to protect their own lives and property as well as that of their neighbors.
It will be pointed out, in this curriculum, that fires are caused from individual carelessness. It will focus on how wildfires occur and how they can be prevented, what children and their parents can do to be proactive about their landscapes and the maintenance of those landscapes, alternatives for creating survivable space around their properties [without changing the environment], and what fire-resistive plants, shrubs, and trees can be used.

Detail the community participation and collaboration for this project. Define clearly why you believe your group will be successful in delivering the proposal to the target audience. How will the project be sustained or carried forward beyond project timelines? How will the project be monitored and evaluated?
Response:
Mary Ellen Holly has had extensive training on curriculum development and methods of implementing curriculum into schools. A video that she produced for teachers was acclaimed by the National Fire Protection Association who distributed it to all "Learn Not to
Burn" curriculum champions. Holly is very adept with this type of project and will be leading the development as well as supporting the implementation.
It is not the intent of KOG to reinvent curriculum, but to use existing curriculum and modify it to meet Oregon's fire problems.
Community participation will be in the form of an advisory committee of educators, fire prevention personnel, counselors, and a curriculum specialist who will be hired to develop the curriculum. The topics to be included in the curriculum will be determined by the committee to address our fire problems.
We have particularly emphasized the fact that this curriculum will meet Oregon Curriculum Guidelines as set by the Oregon
Department of Education, and that teacher information and activities will be integrated into several curriculum areas [Language Arts/
Math/Science/Social Studies]. This will enable teachers to use our prevention education during the compulsory curriculum periods.
Also, while teachers are required to teach fire prevention 30 minutes per month, there has been no wildland curriculum available for them to teach.
Monitoring will be done through pre- and post-tests to determine the increase in knowledge.
3. Partnerships (30 points)
Detail the level of involvement of any local multi-agency, emergency services, non-profit coordination group, and provide a list of partners for this project with their current and expected level of involvement, including any kind of contributions or matching funds. What is the project relationship to a community risk assessment or mitigation plan? Include the name of the plan, date it was prepared, and local contact to get a copy of the plan if requested.
Response:
As a part of the Oregon Department of Forestry's Fire Program Review, Mary Ellen Holly, President of KOG, chaired the Prevention
Working Group. Representatives from Weyerhaeuser and Boise Cascade, Associated Oregon Loggers, Oregon Small Woodland
Owners, The State Fire Marshal's Office, Eugene Fire and Emergency Medical Services, Jackson County Fire District, and several field and staff members from Oregon Department of Forestry districts participated. This Group's goal was to review and recommend strategies that will reduce the number and severity of human-caused wildfires and that will encourage every Oregonian to take responsibility for wildfire prevention. The members of this Group have spent over 300 hours in research, discussions, and findings, and remain active in the implementation of our strategic plan.
The relationship of curriculum to community mitigation plans is that consistent messaging in wildfire prevention curriculum needs to be taught to children so they [and, as a result, their parents] will instinctively know the proactive and preventative measures that can be taken to keep a fire from happening and, thus, protect lives and properties while maintaining the environment in which they wish to live.
There is no individual community plan that we are addressing. Keep Oregon Green does state-wide wildfire prevention awareness and education, but will be assisting the Oregon Department of Forestry and the citizens of Oregon to reduce the risk of wildfire in the
WUI.

Tasks
Hire curriculum director; Gather all existing wildfire education curricula from state and federal agencies; form Curriclum Advisory Committee March 2006
Time Frame
Determine topics & modify to meet OR Curriculum
Guidelines; teaching guides; Information and
Activities to be integrated to standard curriculum areas
April - July 2006
Develop behavior objectives; content summaries
(history of fire problem, prev measures); discussion points, activity sheets & add'l teacher resources
July-Sept 2006
Develop CD/DVD Training Software
Sept 2006-Mar 2007
Train prevention employees on curriculum and teaching methods;
February 2007
Hook teachers on fire problem & train them on lessons; Pilot Curriculum in 4 locations; 3 classes/ each grade; Pre & Post test; feedback from teachers
March - May 2007
Edit curriculum with teacher comments; print first books
July 2007
Train additional employees; market curriculum to school districts; train teachers; educate children and parents
August-October 2007
Responsible Party
KOG President
KOG President
Curriculum Advisory Committee/
Curriculum Director
Curriculum Director/President/Media
Director
Curriculum Director/President
President/Prevention Personnel/Teachers
Curriculum Director
Marketing Director/President/Field
Employees/Teachers

Cost Category
Description
Personnel
Federal
Agency Applicant Partner 1 Partner 2 Partner 3
Total
Curriculum Director
Secretary
Subtotal
Fringe Benefits
Insurance
$20,000
$0
$20,000
$0
$0
$0
$30,000
$25,000
$55,000
$0
$0
$0
$0
$0
$0
$50,000
$25,000
$75,000
$0
$0
$0
$0
$0
$0
$12,800
$0
$12,800
$0
$0
$0
$0
$0
$0
$12,800
$0
$12,800
Subtotal
Travel
Curiculum Director $5,000
$0
$5,000
$0
$0
$0
$0
$0
$0
$0
$0
$0
$0
$0
$0
$5,000
$0
$5,000 Subtotal
Equipment
Computer/Printer
Subtotal
Supplies
Office
Teaching Aids
Subtotal
Contractual
CD/DVD
Printing
Subtotal
$15,000
$0
$15,000
$0
$50,000
$50,000
$0
$0
$0
$1,500
$0
$1,500
$0
$0
$0
$0
$0
$0
$0
$0
$0
$0
$0
$0
$0
$0
$0
$30,000
$0
$30,000
$0
$0
$0
$0
$0
$0
$0
$3,500
$3,500
$0
$0
$0
$0
$0
$0
$1,500
$0
$1,500
$15,000
$3,500
$18,500
$30,000
$50,000
$80,000
Training
Marketing
Other
Subtotal
$10,000
$0
$10,000
Total Costs
Project (Program)
Income
1
$100,000
$0
$1,500
$0
$0
$0
$0
$0
$0
$0
$67,800
$0
$0
$0
$0
$30,000
$0
$0
$5,000
$5,000
$10,000
$5,000
$15,000
$8,500 $207,800
$0 $0
1
Program income is the gross revenue generated by a grant or cooperative agreement supported activity during the life of the grant. Program income can be made by recipients from fees charged for conference or workshop attendance, from rental fees earned from renting out real property or equipment acquired with grant or cooperative agreement funds, or from the sale of commodities or items developed under the grant or cooperative agreement. The use of Program Income during the project period may require prior approval by the granting agency.