Strategic Objectives

Meeting Notes and Recordings

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  • 2020
  • 2021
  • 2022
  • 2023
  • 2024

October 2024 Steve Hawks, Senior Director for Wildfire, with The Insurance Institute for Business and Home Safety (IBHS)

September 2024 Jenna Deibel, Central Oregon Extension Forester Agent with Oregon State University, College of Forestry

August 2024 Lauren Street, Central Oregon Intergovernmental Council, Youth Workforce Program

July 2024 Horace Ward, Pacific Power, Wildfire and Emergency Management and Response

May 2024 Nathan Garibay, Deschutes County Sheriff’s Office, Evacuation Preparedness

April 2024 Natalie Kuntz, US Forest Service, Upcoming and Current Prescribed Fire Projects in Deschutes County

March 2024 Ariel Cowan, Oregon State University Extension, Fire Resistant Plants

February 2024 Andy Meeuwsen, Country Financial, Homeowners Insurance and Wildfire

January 2024 Corinne Heiner and Kevin Moriarty, Deschutes County, PW Topics and Program of Work 2

November 2023 Corinne Heiner and Kevin Moriarty, Deschutes County, PW Topics and Program of Work

October 2023 Tim Deboodt, Crook County, Western Juniper in Oregon

September 2023 Trevor Miller, US Forest Service, Deschutes County Projects and Wildfire Update

August 2023 Horace Ward, Pacific Power, Wildfire Risk and Preparedness

July 2023 Gabriela Riticova Oregon Department of Forestry, Forest Pathology

June 2023 Amanda Rau Oregon Department of Forestry, Prescribed Fire

May 2023 Nathan Garibay Deschutes County Sheriff’s Office, Evacuation Preparedness

April 2023 Sarah Worthington, Deschutes County Health, Smoke and Health

March 2023 Christine Buhl, Entomologist Oregon Department of Forestry, Forest Entomology

February 2023 Melissa Steele, Bend Fire and Rescue, Winter Fire Safety

Senate Bill 762 update and Deschutes County 2040 Comprehensive Plan update

OSFM Community Risk Reduction Program, Fall Forest Fuels Treatments and Prescribed Fires

Focus on Firewise: 10 communities share insights from recent projects

FireFree 2022 Results; An Insurance Agent’s Perspective on New Knowledge of Wild Fire Risk and its effect on the Homeowner, Andy Meeuwsen, Country Financial

Public Attitudes Toward Wildfire: A Survey of Homeowners in Central Oregon – Brent Steel, OSU

Federal Forest Restoration Program – Cameron Scott, Oregon Department of Forestry

Home Ignitions – Camp and Marshal fires – Yana Valachovic, University of California Cooperative Extension

Fire Safe Marin – Rich Shortall, Executive Coordinator

2022 Strategic Objectives and Program of Work

Project Wildfire Program of Work Highlights 2021

Central Oregon Fire Prevention Co-op (COFPC)

Fire Season Review

Labor Day Fires of 2020

CWPP’s Across Deschutes County

Evacuations and County Grants

FireFree Report Out

Tracking Fire Season Trends

OSU Extension Services

Labor Day Wind and Fire Event

Wildfire Mitigation Outreach Survey Results

2021 Strategic Objectives and Program of Work

Program of Work 2020 Review

Potential Operational Delineations (POD’s)

Wildfire Mitigation Advisory Council Outreach Survey

Deschutes Forest Prescribed Fire Program, Goals and Objectives

Oregon Wildfire Risk Explorer

FireFree Report Out

FireFree What Happens to the Collected Yard Debris

Experiences from Australia’s Fire Season

Wildfire Mitigation Advisory Council (WMAC)

Sisters-Camp Sherman Online Burn Permits

Strategic Objectives and Program of Work Review