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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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Contact your BIA representative and check us out at: www.thesca.org
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