Red Hill Community Wildfire Protection Plan (CWPP)
NM State Forester Tony Delfin, chairman of the New Mexico Fire Planning Task Force (FPTF), listed CWPP requirements in an April 6, 2012 letter to County Managers and CWPP Coordinators in New Mexico:
1. Appropriate signatures (local government, local fire department, State Forestry)
2. Evidence of collaboration (public meetings, public and agency input)
3. List of communities and each individual hazard risk rating
4. Map of the Wildland Urban Interface areas within the CWPP
5. Prioritized list of fuels reduction treatment projects
6. List of ways to reduce structural ignitability
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The following is introductory text from the CWPP. Additional text will be posted on the main blog page for ease of discussion as it is developed, as well as here.
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The Red Hill Community Wildfire Protection Plan (CWPP) is a supplement to the Catron County Community Wildfire Protection Plan. The County CWPP completed in October, 2005 assesses the wildfire threat and hazardous fuels treatment priorities on a landscape scale. The Red Hill CWPP uses the data and findings of the County CWPP to assess the wildfire threat and treatment priorities specific to the Red Hill Wildland Urban Interfaces (WUIs) #47 and #49. Mitigation which will reduce the threat of wildfire damage to property, life and the land are proposed. Project scale data from the County CWPP and other sources is presented to aid in planning and design of the proposed projects. Monitoring of this CWPP is addressed in the County CWPP.
AKKNOWLEDGEMENTS
Catron County has eleven existing community-specific CWPPs, each based on one or more wildland-urban interface (WUI) areas as identified in the landscape-level Catron County CWPP of 2005. These CWPPs and this Red Hill CWPP were made possible through funding the New Mexico Association of Counties Wildfire Risk Reduction Program. This grant is financed by the Bureau of Land Management and has provided for writing of the CWPP and for public outreach. Also the cooperation of the Bureau of Land Management Socorro District, New Mexico State Forestry Dept., Catron County Commission and the Red Hill Volunteer Fire Dept. was invaluable and much appreciated. Without exception all personnel in all these agencies and organizations were most cooperative and helpful.
MAP of the Red Hill CWPP area (click on map to enlarge)
