Alliance
Agency Links
- Bureau
of Land Management (BLM) - The Alliance serves the Folsom
Unit of the BLM Management Frameworks Plan (MFP). Under direction
of the MFP the BLM will “Manage and perpetuate woodlands for
the production of multiple resource values and to provide a permanent
source of wood products for future generations.”
- Bureau
of Reclamation (BOR)
- The BOR Mission is to manage, develop, and protect water and related
resources in an environmentally and economically sound manner. Under
terms of a cooperative agreement with BOR, California Department of
Parks and Recreation (DPR) manages the Auburn State Recreation Area
(ASRA) for recreation and resources protection. Fire protection services
and other resource protection actions are provided by CDF under a
cooperative agreement with BOR and coordination with DPR. The Alliance
is a focal point for interagency fire prevention programs and services,
and to help develop fire protection strategies.
- California
Department of Forestry and Fire Protection (CDF) - CDF
is able to apply pre-fire management projects identified through its
Fire Plan process to reduce the potential of large conflagration wildfires
within the watershed. These projects are designed to reduce the losses
and cost of large fire events while protecting public safety, firefighter
safety, assets, and natural resources. Pre-fire projects include the
use of mechanical vegetation modification treatments and controlled
burning to reduce the vegetative material produced in forest, brush
fields, and on rangelands. Use of its Fire Prevention Bureau programs
will also encourage structure defensible space efforts through information
and education by way of inspections, media release, and literature
distribution.
- California
Department of Transportation (CALTRANS) - CALTRANS is
responsible for maintaining right-of-ways throughout state highways
and the I-80 corridor. Vegetation management and public information
programs can educate and encourage highway travelers and Placer County
residents to utilize fire safe practices like fuel load reduction
and defensible space.
- Placer
County Resource Conservation District (RCD) - The RCD
(with assistance from NRCS) helps coordinate soil, water and resource
conservation projects with landowners and ranchers by providing technical
and available financial cost share assistance to those who qualify.
The use of controlled fire in concert with other methods can decrease
the potential for destructive wildfire and thus decrease the potential
for serious erosion, sedimentation and resource loss while potentially
increasing water yield, improve wildlife habitat, range and timber
conditions.
- USDA
Natural Resources Conservation Service (NRCS)
- In cooperation with the Placer County RCD, NRCS is able to provide
technical assistance in preparing conservation plans to landowners.
These conservation plans, implemented by the landowner, benefit from
the assistance provided by the RCD and NRCS.
- High
Sierra Resource Conservation and Development Council (HSRC&D)
- HSRC&D will be able to act as a coordinator between various
agencies and organizations when requested, provide assistance in funding
searches for approved projects, and furnish assistance on economic
opportunities through the Alliance. This will result in improved utilization
of natural resources and increased health to the economy of the region.
- USDA
Forest Service (USFS)
- Tahoe National
Forest (TNF) and Eldorado
National Forest (ENF) - Through the Alliance, close coordination
between public and private land managers will increase the opportunity
to more effectively meet National Forest goals, as identified within
the Tahoe/Eldorado National Forest Land and Resource Management Plans.
- Placer
County
- Placer
County Fire Dept. (CDF)
- The Placer County Fire Department is responsible for fire
protection and rescue services for approximately 400 square miles
of unincorporated area in Placer County. Under contract
with Placer County the California Department of Forestry
and Fire Protection (C.D.F.) provides personnel and Administration
for the County Fire Program. The Department is made up of a total
of 12 Fire Stations, Three Full Time County Stations, Three Full
Time contract C.D.F. Stations and Six Volunteer Fire Companies.
- >Placer
County Environmental Health Services brings a public
health perspective to the healthy forest concept. As viewed by
Environmental Health Services, a healthy forest promotes high
quality waters. Protecting water quality is a basic public health
function of Environmental Health Services. Forest management,
fire management and fuels management activities could have adverse
effects upon healthfulness of water resources.
- Placer
County Office of Emergency Services (OES) is responsible
for coordinating emergency response to wildfire and other disasters.
- The
Placer
County Air Pollution District (APCD) is responsible for
the management of air pollution from all non-mobile sources, including
open burning. Since open burning represents a significant source of
air pollution in our region, the APCD will continue in its efforts
to monitor and control open burning with permits and enforcement at
the local level. Participation in the Alliance will help better manage
the use of prescribed fire and facilitate communications. The APCD
will work to assess the air quality impacts of prescribed fire and
will continue to promote alternatives to burning.
- Placer
County Water Agency (PCWA)
- PCWA provides water for much of Placer County, and their resource
management strategies include preserving water supply, quality and
distribution. A healthy watershed/healthy forest are vital elements
to meet PCWA objectives, and the Alliance offers an opportunity to
coordinate PCWA efforts with those of public and private entities
concerned with the effects of fire in this area.
-
Sierra Economic Development District (SEDD)
- SEDD represents the four counties of El Dorado, Placer, Nevada and
Sierra, with its mission to alleviate unemployment and underemployment
by expanding industrial, resource and small business development,
while preserving the quality of life in the Sierra Nevada foothills.
SEDD has a commitment to develop the potential of a biomass utilization
industry within the Sierra Nevada. The agency has sponsored studies
identifying the biomass as a resource and identifying opportunities
and constraints to a value added biomass industry. SEDD recognizes
the potential of stimulating the establishment or creation of businesses
that use biomass and will continue its efforts toward this end. Additionally,
SEDD offers technical assistance to many jurisdictions in grant writing,
demographic profiles and statistical analysis of the regional economic
base.
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