Lassen – Modoc Unit - Board of Forestry and Fire Protection - State ...

Dorine Beckman, Chair
Jerry Fraticelli, Vice Chair
Cathy Hilts, Secretary/Treasurer
January 17, 2006
Lassen County Board of Supervisors
Gentlemen:
Lassen County Fire Safe Council, Inc.
P.O. Box 816
Susanville, CA 96130
(530) 257-8128
chilts@co.lassen.ca.us
Attached are revisions to the Lassen County Fire Safe Plan that we’ll be
requesting you adopt at your January 24 th meeting. Some of these changes are
necessary to bring us into compliance with Community Wildfire Prevention Plan
(CWPP) guidelines. Other changes make Lassen County’s CWPP a model for
the entire state to emulate. Here are some of the additions and/or changes to the
2002 Memo of Understanding (MOU) and 2004 Fire Safe Plan (FSP):
1. Includes a revised MOU as part of the CWPP/FSP
2. Adds Tribes and private forest industry partners to the MOU
3. Ties all Lassen County Community FSPs to the CWPP/FSP
4. Gives the communities and the MOU participants the ability to expand and
amend the individual FSPs as better planning evolves
5. Defines the Wildland Urban Interface boundaries in Lassen County
5. Gives the MOU participants the ability to modify the WUI boundaries as we
improve on our planning
6. Amends the CWPP/FSP to include the new California 100' clearance
requirements
7. Establishes a procedure for developing Annual and Future Work Plans,
including a March 1 date for assembling the information
We look forward to seeing you on the 24 th .
Very truly,
Tom Esgate, Director