1. Nick Goulette, The Watershed Center Growing the “Trinity Integrated Fire Management Partnership”

2. Outline  Fire and Trinity’s forests  Background and history of the IFM partnership  Goals of the partnership  Who’s involved?  How will it work?  Our targets  How can the community be involved?  Getting started

3. Fire and Trinity’s Forests  Our long-standing history with fire  Historic fire regime and ecology  Native American’s and fire  Fire suppression  Changes in the land  Modern fires and fire management

4. Trinity IFM – Background and History  Trinity Bioregion Group  The Watershed Center and learning to do “ecosystem management”  The Trinity County Fire Safe Council and Community Wildfire Protection Plan

5. Trinity IFM – Background and History  The Klamath Siskiyou Fire Learning Network  The Northern CA Prescribed Fire Council  A funding opportunity, the right people, and a “receptive fuelbed”

6. Goals of the IFM partnership  Improve public safety and protect values at-risk from wildfire  Enhance public and private land values  Restore ecological integrity  Protect air quality and public health by controlling when and how fires burn  Grow interagency and stakeholder coordination  Increase local qualifications and capacity for efficient and effective fuels and fire management  Engage in public dialogue and education – grow public support  Monitor and learn  Grow fire adapted communities in Trinity County

7. Who’s involved?  The Watershed Center  Private landowners  Local workers and private contractors  Volunteer Fire Departments  CAL FIRE  BLM  US Forest Service  NRCS  Trinity County Fire Safe Council  Regional partners  Air quality regulators  You

8. How will it work?  Collaborative planning  Formal partnerships  Training  Basic  Live and applied  Cooperative burning  Community engagement and education  Monitoring and learning  More cooperative burning

9. Our targets  Host “red card” trainings in 2012 and 2013  Establish a trained Watershed Center fire team  Complete at-least 5 “large” cooperative burn plans (4-6k acres)  Implement several cooperative prescribed burns  in multiple parts of the county,  crossing property boundaries  with multiple agencies and partners participating in each  Implement a minimum of 1200 acres burned by end of 2013  Host live training opportunities and build capacity and qualifications in multiple agencies and partners  Provide information and host public events to build understanding and support for prescribed fire

10. How can the community be involved?  Attend public workshops – learn and provide feedback  Burn day observation and learning  Be an ambassador in the community  Learn to burn – participate  Learn from burning – monitor  Work with your neighbors – participate

11. Getting started  Big Creek Cooperative Burning