Why arent planning project proposals being accepted this year?
The priority is to complete basic county-wide Community Wildfire Protection Plans (CWPPs) in high fire risk counties. Currently, BLM is the only agency able to fund planning, and funding anticipated for Fiscal Year 2010 is very limited. The Washington Department of Natural Resources and the Oregon Department of Forestry have agreed to coordinate and administer the grants to provide seed money to develop county-wide CWPPs in counties that are at high risk for wildfire and that have BLM-administered lands within the county.
