Community Wildfire Protection Plans: Enhancing Collaboration and Building Community Capacity

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Community Wildfire Protection Plans Enhancing
Collaboration and Building Community Capacity

• improve the ability of agencies, organizations,
  communities, and citizens to work together
  collaboratively, and
• enhance the long-term capacity of community to
  address wildfire risk

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Collaboration
the pooling of resources by 2 or more
stakeholders

• voluntary
• involves face-to face interaction and
  interdependence
• seeks to achieve goals that could not be
  achieved independently

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Elements Influencing Collaboration for CWPPs

• Community context
• Scale
• Framing
• Resources

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Grizzly Flats, El Dorado County, California
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Elements Influencing Collaboration for
CWPPsCommunity Context

• Community context
• Scale
• Framing
• Resources

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Auburn Lake Trails, El Dorado County, California
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Elements Influencing Collaboration for
CWPPsCommunity Context

• Community context
• Scale
• Framing
• Resources

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Elements Influencing Collaboration for CWPPsScale

• Goal strategic, landscape-level planning

• Broader scale planning (multi-county, county, or
  multi-township)
• Agency involvement critical

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Lake County, Minnesota
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Elements Influencing Collaboration for
CWPPsScale

• Community context
• Scale
• Framing
• Resources

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Elements Influencing Collaboration for CWPPsScale

• Goal property owner-level planning

• Smaller scale planning (neighborhood, homeowners
  association, community)
• Homeowner involvement critical.

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High Knob, Virginia
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Elements Influencing Collaboration for CWPPsScale
Select the scale where you can make something
happen!
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Elements Influencing Collaboration for
CWPPsFraming
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Elements Influencing Collaboration for
CWPPsFraming

• Community context
• Scale
• Framing
• Resources

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Elements Influencing Collaboration for
CWPPsFraming
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Taylor, Florida
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Elements Influencing Collaboration for
CWPPsFraming
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Harris Park East Portal, Colorado
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Elements Influencing Collaboration for
CWPPsFraming
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Elements Influencing Collaboration for
CWPPsResources

• Funding
• Technical assistance
• Networks
• Facilitators, intermediaries, contractors
• Agency leadership
• Other ongoing collaborative activities

• Community context
• Scale
• Framing
• Resources

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Josephine County, Oregon
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Elements Influencing Collaboration for CWPPs

• Community context
• Scale
• Framing
• Resources

Contractors
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Post Mountain, California
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Elements Influencing Collaboration for
CWPPsResources

• Funding
• Technical assistance
• Networks
• Facilitators, intermediaries, contractors
• Agency leadership
• Other ongoing collaborative activities

• Community context
• Scale
• Framing
• Resources

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Em Kayan, Montana
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Em Kayan Firewise Communities/ USA Plan
Lincoln County CWPP
Lincoln County pre-disaster mitigation plan
State of Montana multi-hazard mitigation plan
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Elements Influencing Collaboration for CWPPs

• Community context
• Scale
• Framing
• Resources

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Benefits of Collaboration

• efficiency
• awareness of changing values
• support for science
• intangible benefits
• agency capacity
• community capacity

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Policy Questions Related to Collaboration

• How can the benefits of collaboration be made
  more visible and apparent?
• How do we measure or account for the impacts of
  collaboration?
• What incentives could be used to increase
  involvement by agency leaders in collaborative
  planning and decision-making?