The All Lands/All Hands Planning Team incorporated the National Fire Plan 10-Year Comprehensive Strategy
titled “A Collaborative Approach for Reducing Wildland Fire Risks to Communities and the
Environment” and its associated Implementation Plan, for
use by all participating landowners in addressing wildland fire risks on all lands on the Kenai Peninsula and
within the Kenai Peninsula Borough.
One of the four goals of the plan is to promote community assistance. Below are the guiding principles and planned actions to assist communities found in the Kenai Peninsula All Lands / All Hands Action Plan. Use the tabs above to explore SBB's role in community safety.
Guiding Principles:
1. Increase Local Capacity – Where appropriate, stimulate local capacity to
accomplish hazardous fuels reduction and rehabilitation work.
2. Incentives – Promote better fire prevention planning and actions in local
communities through technical assistance and cost-sharing incentives.
3. Biomass Utilization – Employ all appropriate means to stimulate industries
that can utilize small-diameter, woody material resulting from hazardous fuel
reduction activities, such as for biomass electric power, pulp and paper
making, and composite structural building materials.
Actions:
1. Reduce the losses to communities and individuals from wildland fire.
2. Promote markets for traditionally underutilized wood as a value-added outlet for byproducts
of hazardous fuel reduction and ecosystem restoration.
3. Increase incentives for private landowners to address defensible space and fuels
management needs on private property through local land use policies.
4. Promote local government initiatives to implement fire-sensitive land use planning.
5. Promote public knowledge and understanding of wildland fire, including risks and
the role of fire in natural ecosystem processes.
