History

HIGHLIGHTS of TIMELINE ACCOMPLISHMENTS of the FIRESAFE COUNCILS of SISKIYOU COUNTY

YEAR 1:

Collaboratively formed (September 2002) the Mount Shasta Area Fire
Safe Council.
Elected officers and filed for non-profit status.
Co-wrote grant proposal for a Mt. Shasta Area Wildfire protection
plan.

YEARS 1-15:

National Wildfire Awareness Week: Organized and participated
several years in a row (12) at several venues sharing fire-wise
educational information.
Secured grant for Mt. Shasta Area CWPP and began work.
Prepare and conduct ongoing community and neighborhood workshops on
fire prevention, including proper P.R.C. 4291 tree/vegetation
marking and implementation, effective pile burning, necessary fuel
reduction maintenance, utilization of fire-resistant building
materials, vagrancy awareness, illegal campfires/fireworks, etc.
Wrote numerous articles in newspapers, Facebook, magazines and other
media.
Frequently seek, acquire, and provide radio station interviews that
are pithy, relevant, and timely regarding fire prevention efforts.
Helped create, edit, and produce 3 “Living with Fire” tabloid
editions.
Help other local FSCs with CWPPs and CWPP updates
Provided FSC mentor through ESRI and help local FSCs with mapping
and planing needs. Taught GIS workshops to local FSCs, sharing FSCSC
ESRI software trainer for ArcView applications, particularly.
Co-edited county-wide CWPP for Siskiyou County, helped write and
secure an RAC grant; Mt. Shasta Area Fire Safe Council CWPP approved
by CALFIRE.
Secured 5 grants for fuel reduction, and 4 grants for educational
outreach.

YEAR 2:

First grant (BLM) received for creating Mount Shasta Area CWPP
county-wide. CWPP Used Mt. Shasta Area CWPP as their model.
Planned and secured federal grant funding, particularly from USFS
but also BLM, for demonstration fuel reduction projects. All
projects were written to include significant fire prevention
education opportunities.
Prepared and helped secure grants from private foundations, RAC,
P,P&L, State Farm Insurance, Cross Petroleum, etc., plus CFSC
Grants Clearinghouse.
Organized with Redding/Chico ABC TV a pre-fire fuel reduction
educational segment that aired during National Wildfire Awareness
Week, filmed in Siskiyou County, that also featured several project
areas worked.

YEAR 2-5:

Mt. Shasta Area CWPP approved by CALFIRE 2004.
Worked with CWPP committee to complete a Siskiyou County-wide CWPP;
approved by CALFIRE 2008.

YEAR 3:

YEARS 3-4:

Project Information: Over last 15 years we have worked demonstration
educational fuel reduction grant projects totaling apprx. 600 acres
of fuel treatments performed on volunteer work days/years.

YEAR 4:

Dale and Giselle Nova of Nova Vita
Natural Resource Management contacted as youth coordinators.
Cooperated with Siskiyou
Resource Conservation District on a low income senior citizen
defensible space rebate grant, treating homes per P.R.C. 4291
throughout Siskiyou County
Actively burn as much as possible with the key goal of getting fires
back on the ground in our maintenance returns.
Actively engage schools as much as possible from primary grades to
university-level involvement.
YEAR 5:
Developed and hosted defensible space and construction workshop in
cooperation with UC Ag Co-operative Extension
Produced a defensible space educational 30-minute video for local
public TV.

YEARS 6,7, & 8:

Red Zone software workshops taught; developed a work team of Red
Zone trainers and taught workshop to CALFIRE personnel, who utilized
it in key “trouble” areas.

YEAR 7:

Giselle presented the Smokey Bear Award by CALFIRE for outstanding
fire safe educational outreach work.
Secured several collaborative partners, then implemented the free
Mt. Shasta Biomass Collection Site (BCS) at the old Roseburg
mill yard in South Mt. Shasta (writing several articles emphasizing
fire prevention through biomass utilization). This project followed
Mt. Shasta’s devastating “Storm of the Century” in 2010 that
FEMA declared a National Emergency Incident..

YEAR 8:

Re-opened the BCS for 2011 spring fuel reduction season and provide
processed feedstock to Roseburg Forest Products’ Weed biomass
plant for conversion to electric energy, producing more local jobs
while reducing the negative impacts of excessive outdoor burning,
landfill or illegal dumping, and depletion of finite fossil fuels.
(Featured in CFSC’s Spring 2010 Newsletter).
Siskiyou County Fire Circle: Helped organize a highly educational
event that also fostered deeper collaborative relationships with our
21 local Siskiyou County Fire Safe Councils.
Siskiyou County Fire Chiefs’ Meetings.
Much time volunteered providing FSC updates, presentations, and
providing fuel reduction project works in several areas identified
by community fire chiefs.

YEARS 7, 8, &9:

Produced Federal Grant Clearinghouse process workshops; facilitated
and taught workshop classes on how to successfully prepare grants.

YEARS 8-9:

YEAR 9:

Helped write a grant securing a joint-owned FSC/County Fire Warden
chipper that is used on fuel reduction projects by CALFIRE, crews on
FSC projects, and for community FSC volunteer work days.

YEAR 10-12:

YEARS 5,6, & 12:

YEARS 2-15:

Fire Prevention Co-Op: work with multi-agency fire prevention team
to help develop and implement many annual high quality educational
outreaches.
Prepared and gave informational PPT presentations and other
informational presentations to: Lions Clubs, Chambers of Commerce,
Rotary Clubs, Board of Realtors, City councils, County Board of
Supervisors, plus many more groups.

Educational Outreach

YEARS 3-22+:

Actively posted fire prevention posters in past, present, and future
fuel reduction project areas in prominent locations. Re-visit with
residents and neighborhood coordinator volunteers in past project
areas, organizing and presenting neighborhood fuel reduction
maintenance workshops and assist with volunteer Saturday workdays.
Helped establish and maintain the FSCSC website
<firesafesiskiyou.org> including MSAFSC link plus MSAFSC
Facebook pages