The Challenge of Long-term Implementation

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The Challenge of Long-term Implementation

• Sustaining CWPPs

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Implementation Challenges

• New and emerging players
• Shifting priorities of elected officials and
  managers
  
• Reevaluation of risk criteria to improve the
  prioritization process
  
• Maintaining fuel reduction project momentum

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Improving Productivity

• Applying objectives at a regional scale
• Moving to a neighborhood level
• Developing biomass uses
• Establishing a system to record fuel treatments
• How to effectively monitor projects?

4
Varied Community Interests

• Suppression and public safety
• Fuel reduction and fire risk
• Forest health
• Prevention education/Defensible space
• High priority community values
• Biomass utilization

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The Need for Collective Action

• Community/multi-party based
• Collaboration that build community relationships
  and abilities
  
• On a scale that supports the goal of communities
  living with wildfire
  
• Supported by continual, shared learning

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Key Contributors to Productive Implementation?

• Wildfire definitions based on multiple interests
  (or frames)
  
• Scales that create regional strategies and local
  action
  
• Sharing knowledge through extended community
  education
  
• Community and agency leaders who bridge (or
  intermediaries) networks, organizations, and
  scales.
  

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The critical roles of community
concerns/interests

• what a CWPP will emphasize,
• who gets involved,
• and the extent to which it is owned by the
  community and agencies
  
• These outcomes affect long term implementation
  and productivity

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Multiple Concerns broaden community
participation

• A risk to lives, property and communities
• Addressing forest health-related ecological
  conditions
  
• Landscape changes due to urban development
• Biomass utilization
• Others?

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Scales for Strategy and Action

• Regional or state scale networks focus on
  strategic landscape-level planning, coordinating
  treatment response, creating prevention
  education, and sharing lessons learned.
• while community, neighborhood, and county-scale
  networks stress on the ground mitigation and
  prevention actions.
  
• Combining these approaches can produce a balanced
  and sustainable range of community protection
  projects.
  

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Communities that learn together strengthen
implementation

• Participants may begin by map values-at-risk, and
  organizing a variety of resources
  
• Establish shared understandings of the wildfire
  problem,
  
• Heightened their knowledge of potential actions
  and available resources,
  
• Create an expanded network of individuals and
  organizations.

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Intermediary or Bridging Individuals or
Organizations

• Have key contacts within communities and
  organizations,
  
• Play strong leadership and bridging roles among
  multiple entities.
  
• Mobilize internal and external resources.
• Possess the time and skills to organize the
  knowledge/skills of participants to achieve
  shared goals.

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Suggestions to maintain effective implementation

• Embed into larger county level CWPPs to achieve a
  landscape level projects
  
• Link to a county-level hazard mitigation plan to
  utilize resources effectively
  
• Tie the CWPP to Community FireWise Plans to
  incorporate neighborhood prevention, education,
  and mitigation initiatives
  
• Integrate with federal or state wildfire resource
  management and fuel reduction plans to maximize
  WUI protection
  
• Build bio-mass uses to establish a forest-
  restoration, economic focus.
  

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Maintain Enduring Collective Relationships

• Establish implementation and monitoring
  committees
  
• Set and update short-term, achievable goals
• Hire or appoint a CWPP Coordinator
• Sustain community education through effective
  working relationships, dedicated resources, and
  multi-scale particpation.

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Key Lessons

• Maximize achievements by involving multiple
  community interests, integrating diverse social
  scales, identifying bridge-building entities, and
  supporting shared learning
• Keep participants informed and engaged by
  strengthening continual accountability through
  monitoring
  

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Collaboration and Productive Implementation

• Collaboration builds multiple abilities and
  skills needed for collective action
  
• Successful wildfire mitigation occurs through
  long-term implementation
  
• Sustaining implementation of CWPPs is the
  ultimate measure of the successes resulting from
  building and integrating collaborative abilities,
  relationships, and resources.