[puma-news] Add Your Name for Fire Mitigation Grant

Hello All:

As we start to work on writing this grant, we would like all of you to
check out what this is about. If you are at all interested in being
included if we get this grant for the Spring of 2006 please send me an
e-mail. The information below tells what this is about.

Thanks.

Terry Greenberg
303-443-1409

Community Grant, Competitive Wildland Urban Interface Cost-share, for
Wildland Urban Fire Mitigation: This is a soft match where the resident
works the land and clears away an agreeable amount advised by the Forest
Service for $11.68 per hour divided in half. This grant can also be a hard
match where you can hire a local contractor to do the work and you will be
reimbursed to the alloted amount or half your cost, whichever comes first.
We know that this grant is highly competitive and that we may not get
funded, but if we write the grant and list the needs, it will be a great
beginning and we could reapply for a ten year period of time. Nothing is
gauranteed, however it is time we pull together and begin
the process to preserve our forest health along with our own safety in the
event of a forest fire.

Grant applications are accepted between October 1st and October 10th of
2005, which would go into effect, if approved, for the Spring of 2006. We
would have to put together a Community Wildfire Protection Plan (CWPP) prior to
submitting a grant application. It was suggested that we could use part of
the MEPP (Magnolia Environmental Preservation Plan) as a basis for this
plan. We could also get assistance from Cory Seeher of the Colorado State
Forest Service and his contacts.

First of all, we need to find out who wants to do work and join us in this
request for aid through a grant and work to be accomplished per our
communities objectives. Please respond if you are interested and ask any
neighbors who may not be on this PUMA e-mail list to lend their names as
well. We have a small central group who agreed that night to put
this plan together and work on the grant proposal. The volunteers are
Dorothy Whalen, Terry Greenberg and Parmeta Pushman. Cory indicated there
was a woman experienced in writing the CWPP named Nan Johnson who could
advise us to design the plan.