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Title: Hayman Fire SocialEconomic Review


1
Hayman Fire Social/Economic Review
  • A Case Study

2
Social/Economic Team Leader Brian Kent RMRS
  • Sarah McCaffrey-NCRS(FS)
  • Carol Ekarius-Upper South Platte Coalition
  • Wade Martin-Calif. State Univ. Long Beach
  • Matt Carroll-Washington State University
  • Jim Raymond-Douglas County, Colorado 
  • Rocky Wiley-Denver Water Board

3
Social/Economic Team (Continued)
  • Mike Retzlaff R2
  • Dan Williams-RMRS
  • Jason Stoker-RMRS
  • John Hill-R2/Pike San Isabel NF
  • Krista Gebert-RMRS

4
Social/economic Area of Focus
  • Primary Focus is on the Four Directly Affected
    Counties
  • Douglas
  • Jefferson
  • Park
  • Teller
  • Secondary Focus on Near-by Front Range
    Communities

5
Our Review will address portions of four broad
question areas
6
Question Area One
  • 1) How Do We Begin to Develop an Understanding of
    the Total Cost of the Hayman Fire Over Time?
  • Costs We Can Estimate
  • Costs We Can Identify

7
Question Area Two
  • How Has the Hayman Fire Influenced Stakeholder
    Positions Toward Fuel Treatments, i.e., What were
    They Pre-Fire and What Are They Now?
  • Who Is Blamed?
  • Can Consensus on Fuels Management Treatments be
    Developed?

8
Question Area Three
  • What have individuals, organizations, and
    communities learned from the Hayman fire
    experience?
  • How Has the Collaborative Hayman Recovery
    Assistance Center (HayRAC) worked?
  • How Do We Capitalize on the Current Teachable
    Moment to Enhance Community Preparedness for
    Future Wildfires?

9
Question Area Four
  • How would we design and implement a long term
    social monitoring protocol for community impacts,
    recovery/rehabilitation needs, and risk
    preparedness following the Hayman fire?
  • What Pieces Could be Put in Place in the Near
    Future?

10
Studies Underway
  • Study One A Detailed Assessment of Fire
    Suppression and Burned Area Emergency Rehab
    (BAER) Costs
  • Applies to Question Area One
  • Forest Service and Other Agencies as Time Permits
  • Principal Investigator Krista Gebert

11
Studies Underway (Continued)
  • Study Two Woodland Park Area Post Fire
    Interviews
  • Applies to Question Areas Two, Three Four
  • Conducted With 55 Residents Knowledgeable Key
    Informants
  • Principal Investigator Matt Carroll

12
Studies Underway (Continued)
  • Study Three Ridgewood Homeowners Association Pre
    Post Fire Workshop/Panel
  • Pre Fire Workshop Part of a National Fire Plan
    Funded Project
  • Week Before Hayman Fire
  • Stakeholder Perceptions of Fire Management
    Treatments and Forest Conditions on National
    Forest lands
  • Principal Investigator Wade Martin

13
Preliminary Findings of Studies One Through Three
14
Study One Preliminary Findings
  • As of the end of September, expenditures for
    suppressing the fire that were entered into
    agency accounting systems total 28 million, 90
    (25.1 million) of which was expended by the
    Forest Service (FS).

15
Study One Preliminary Findings Continued
  • As of the End of September, the Forest Service
    Accounting System Reported 13.3 Million in BAER
    Expenditures, With 64 of These Being Incurred by
    Region 2.

16
Study Two Preliminary Findings
  • Respondents Stated That the Most Positive Impact
    Resulting From the Fire was the Way the Community
    (Woodland Park and Surrounding Area) Pulled
    Together and Helped Each Other Out

17
Study Two Preliminary Findings Continued
  • The fire experience has clearly increased
    awareness of wildfires and made a potential
    future fire more of a reality in peoples minds.
     However, most respondents at the time of the
    interviews were not planning to take any
    particular actions to firesafe their homes and
    properties against future events. Explanations
    for a lack of such activities range from the
    damage has already been done to the aesthetic
    preference for trees near their homes.

18
Study Two Preliminary Findings Continued
  • Many respondents who lost their homes stated that
    they planned to rebuild their home again in the
    same spot. When they were asked whether they
    would put extra effort into fire prevention
    measures for their new house, many answered in
    the negative. The reason was that they loved to
    be surrounded by trees therefore, thinning
    conflicted with their original purpose to build
    their house in such a setting.

19
Study Two Preliminary Findings Continued
  • In terms of negative impacts, the negative impact
    on the economy of the area and on individuals as
    well as the loss of natural resources, were
    mentioned often. The tourist sector was hit
    especially hard.

20
Study Two Preliminary Findings Continued
  • Most thought that a big fire was inevitable and
    the ignition source itself was not important,
    saying that if the fire hadnt been started by an
    individual, something else such as lightning, a
    tossed cigarette, or a hot catalytic converter
    would have started one.

21
Study Two Preliminary Findings Continued
  • One fairly persistent theme was the perceived
    need for the FS to improve its existing working
    relationships with volunteer firefighters and
    other groups/agencies involved in fire prevention
    and control.

22
Study Three Preliminary Findings
  • Participants preferred examples of National
    Forests managed by Mechanical Treatment
    Prescribed Burns Conducted Recently, Ten Years
    Ago, and Thirty Years Ago to untreated forests.

23
Study Three Preliminary Findings Continued
  • Participants preferred any of six different fuel
    management strategies (various combinations of
    prescribed fire, mechanical removal and chemical
    spraying) including just chemical spraying to the
    option of doing nothing and letting the National
    Forests grow.

24
An Evolving Role for the Coalition for the Upper
South Platte (CUSP)
  • Formerly the Upper South Platte Watershed
    Protection Association

25
The Hayman Recovery Assistance Center (HayRAC)
  • Objectives
  • Expedite and Enhance Implementation of
    Rehab/Recovery Efforts from the Hayman Fire with
    emphasis on impacted communities

26
HayRAC Objectives Continued
  • Expedite and Enhance Implementation of Efforts to
    Restore Forest Health to reduce the intensity and
    impacts of future fires
  • Build an effective network that can more
    efficiently address community needs in future
    emergencies, including post-Hayman flooding, and
    future fires

27
HayRAC Accomplishments Include
  • CUSP has coordinated over 40 volunteer events
    (6000 man hours of volunteer time) in a six-week
    period, and will continue to coordinate these
    types of events for the next several years
  • CUSP has sought and received funding to assist
    livestock owners with meeting hay needs
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