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The Baker County Community Wildfire Protection Plan (CWPP) is a working document that will serve as a resource for providing information to enhance community safety through hazard and risk reduction in wildland-urban interface areas of
Baker County. The plan was last revised February 15, 2006.
The Baker County CWPP is the result of analyses, professional cooperation and collaboration, assessments of wildfire risks and other factors considered with the intent to reduce the potential for wildfires that
threaten people, structures, infrastructure, and values in Baker County.
The Core Planning Committee included:
Angie Johnson, Oregon Department of Forestry Facilitator
Mark Bennett, Baker County Homeland Security/Emergency Mngr. Core Member
Doni Clair, Baker County Soil & Water Conservation District Core Member
Terri Drever-Gee, Baker County Planning Commission Chair Core Member
Tim Frost, Baker City Fire Chief Core Member
Jerry Hampton, Haines Fire District Chief Core Member
Mike Hartwell, Bureau of Land Management Core Member
George Keister, Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife Core Member
Noel Livingston, United States Forest Service Core Member
Lane Perry, Consulting Forester/Private Citizen Core Member
Keith Shollenberger, Oregon Department of Forestry Core Member
Gary Timm, Baker County Fire Preparedness Coordinator Core Member
Resource members that served as an advisory group for the core planning
committee were:
Jay Carr, Baker County OSU Extension Agent, Retired
Daryl Cockram, Oregon Department of Forestry
Bruce Countryman, United States Forest Service
Brett Brownscombe, Hells Canyon Preservation Council
Dale Ekman, Bureau of Land Management
Mark Jacques, Oregon Department of Forestry
Tom Morcom, Bureau of Land Management
Baker County Community Wildfire Protection Plan
I. Introduction
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Bob Parker, Baker County OSU Forestry Extension Agent
Dave Quinn, Northeast Oregon Interagency Fire Center
Ken Rockwell, United States Forest Service
Judy Wing, United States Forest Service
This community wildfire protection plan has been prepared in compliance with
the National Fire Plan, the 10-year Comprehensive Strategy, the Tri-County
Hazard Mitigation Plan (Baker, Union, and Wallowa Counties), Oregon Senate
Bill 360 (The Oregon Forestland-Urban Interface Act of 1997), and Healthy
Forest Restoration Act (HFRA).
This plan is endorsed by the Baker County Commissioners, Oregon Department
of Forestry, and the Baker County structural fire community. These representatives mutually agree to the final contents of the plan. |
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