A free service involving a one-on-one site visit with a trained Underwood Conservation District professional.
What is a Wildfire Hazard Home Assessment?
100
< 8 feet long and <5” diameter
What is the size requirements for material to be eligible for chipping?
100
The Wildfire Hazard Home Assessment is this program's first step.
What is the Underwood Conservation District Firewise Incentive Program?
100
Direct face-to-face contact with residents at their home. This contact should result in an outcome.
What is canvassing?
100
As one of 47 similar organizations in Washington, this organization is a legal subdivision of state government that administers programs for the productive use and conservation of natural resources
What is Underwood Conservation District?
200
Fuels which provide vertical continuity between strata, thereby allowing fire to carry from surface fuels into the crowns of trees or shrubs with relative ease. They help start and continue crowning on a fire.
What are ladder fuels?
200
Call UCD Office
What do landowners do once their pile is ready to be chipped?
200
December 2nd 2011.
When do Firewise Incentive projects have to be completed?
200
Face to face contact, through canvassing, allows for a personal discussion in a way that a generic brochure or informational handout cannot?
Why is canvassing effective?
200
All of Skamania County and the western 1/3 of Klickitat County.
What area does Underwood Conservation District cover?
300
The home and its immediate surroundings. This area, approximately 100-200 away from the home, principally determines a home's ignition potential.
What is the Home Ignition Zone?
300
Green plants, leaves, lumber, wood products, grass clippings, logs greater than 8 feet in length or greater than 5" in diameter.
What are things that will not be chipped?
300
Have your project inspected and submit copies of all relevant paid invoices and receipts.
What does a landowner need to do to be reimbursed for their approved and completed project?
300
Repeating a statement back to a resident, using new or different words, but keeping the content the same.
What is reframing?
300
1940
When was Underwood Conservation District established.
400
Debris left after logging, pruning, thinning, or brush cutting; can include logs, chips, bark,
branches, stumps and broken understory trees or brush.
What is slash?
400
Once approximately 10 other landowners in your area have cut and piled materials and notified Underwood Conservation District?
When will someone chip my debris pile?
400
$160 per acre
What is the rate of reimbursement for pruning?
400
Eye contact, body language, gestures, facial expressions, etc.
What are examples of non-verbal communication?
400
A group of five local residents that meet monthly to supervise and guide the actions of Underwood Conservation District staff.
What is the Underwood Conservation District Board of Supervisors?
500
The line, area, or zone where structures and other human development meet or intermingle with undeveloped wildland or vegetative fuels
What is the Wildland Urban Interface?
500
Stems of limbs, trees and brush should all point in the same direction with the cut ends toward the road or driveway.
How should debris be piled?
500
Grant funding through a partnership between Underwood Conservation District and Skamania County.
How is the UCD Firewise Incentive Program funded?
500
Who you are, who are with, what you do, why you are here today.
What are the main components of the introduction?
500
Government entities that provide technical assistance and tools to protect land and water resources in the US.