Common use of Response to Wildland Fire Clause in Contracts

Response to Wildland Fire. All fire suppression action conducted by one Party on lands of another Party shall be consistent with the Jurisdictional Agency’s fire management policy, preplanned objectives for the area in which the fire occurs, and the terms of this Agreement. A Special Management Considerations section in the Operating Plan, addressing resources and other management concerns, will be used by Unit Administrators of the Agencies to identify areas of special management consideration, and to communicate appropriate fire management actions and any restrictions on firefighting tactical techniques to an Incident Commander. Unless otherwise agreed, the Jurisdictional Agency will provide an Agency representative or appropriate environmental technical specialist to advise a Protecting Agency of any special management considerations that may influence suppression action. The Incident Commander will incorporate special management considerations into the incident planning process, subject to the delegation of authority. Each Operating Plan must address how the entities will handle cost sharing for wildland fires that spread to another jurisdiction. Entities should recognize that, as in the, Guidance for Implementation of Federal Wildland Fire Management Policy (2009), a wildland fire may concurrently be managed for one or more objectives. Additionally, objectives can change as the fire spreads across the landscape, affected by changes in environmental conditions, human influence, and institutional factors. Simply stated, some portions of a wildland fire may receive a protection objective while other portions are managed for multiple objectives, and those portions and objectives might change at some time over the duration of the event. The intent should never be to allow a wildland fire to burn onto a jurisdiction that does not want it. All Parties should be involved in developing the strategy and tactics to be used in preventing the fire from crossing the jurisdictional boundary, and all Parties should be involved in developing mitigations that would be used if the fire crosses jurisdictional boundaries.

Response to Wildland Fire. All fire suppression action conducted by one Party party on lands of another Party shall be consistent with the Jurisdictional Agencyjurisdictional agency’s fire management policy, preplanned objectives for the area in which the fire occurs, and the terms of this Agreement. A “Special Management Considerations Considerations” section in the Operating Plan, addressing resources and other management concerns, will be used by Unit Administrators of the Agencies to identify areas of special management consideration, and to communicate appropriate fire management actions and any restrictions on firefighting tactical techniques to an Incident Commander. Unless otherwise agreed, the Jurisdictional Agency will provide an Agency representative or appropriate environmental technical specialist to advise a Protecting Agency of any special management considerations that may influence suppression action. The Incident Commander will incorporate special management considerations into the incident planning process, subject to the delegation of authority. Each Operating Plan must address how the entities will handle cost cost-sharing for wildland fires that spread to another jurisdiction. Entities should recognize that, as in the, the “Guidance for Implementation of Federal Wildland Fire Management Policy (2009)”, a wildland fire may concurrently be managed for one or more objectives. Additionally, objectives can change as the fire spreads across the landscape, affected by changes in environmental conditions, human influence, and institutional factors. Simply stated, some portions of a wildland fire may receive a protection objective while other portions are managed for multiple objectives, and those portions and objectives might change at some time over the duration of the event. The intent should never be to allow a wildland fire to burn onto a jurisdiction that does not want it. All Parties parties should be involved in developing the strategy and tactics to be used in preventing the fire from crossing the jurisdictional boundary, and all Parties parties should be involved in developing mitigations that would be used if the fire crosses jurisdictional boundaries.

Response to Wildland Fire. All fire suppression action conducted by one Party on lands of another Party shall be consistent with the Jurisdictional Agency’s fire management policy, preplanned objectives for the area in which the fire occurs, and the terms of this Agreement. A Special Management Considerations section in the Operating Plan, addressing resources and other management concerns, will be used by Unit Administrators of the Agencies to identify areas of special management consideration, and to communicate appropriate fire management actions and any restrictions on firefighting tactical techniques to an Incident Commander. Unless otherwise agreed, the Jurisdictional Agency will provide an Agency representative or appropriate environmental technical specialist to advise a Protecting Agency of any special management considerations that may influence suppression action. The Incident Commander will incorporate special management considerations into the incident planning process, subject to the delegation of authority. Each Operating Plan must address how the entities will handle cost sharing for wildland fires that spread to another jurisdiction. Entities should recognize that, as in the, Guidance for Implementation of Federal Wildland Fire Management Policy (2009), a wildland fire may concurrently be managed for one or more objectives. Additionally, objectives can change as the fire spreads across the landscape, affected by changes in environmental conditions, human influence, and institutional factors. Simply stated, some portions of a wildland fire may receive a protection objective while other portions are managed for multiple objectives, and those portions and objectives might change at some time over the duration of the event. The intent should never be to allow a wildland fire to burn onto a jurisdiction that does not want it. All Parties should be involved in developing the strategy and tactics to be used in preventing the fire from crossing the jurisdictional boundary, and all Parties should be involved in developing mitigations that would be used if the fire crosses jurisdictional boundaries.

Response to Wildland Fire. All fire suppression action conducted by one Party on lands of another Party shall be consistent with the Jurisdictional Agency’s fire management policy, preplanned objectives for the area in which the fire occurs, and the terms of this Agreement. A Special Management Considerations section in the Operating Plan, addressing resources and other management concerns, will be used by Unit Administrators of the Agencies to identify areas of special management consideration, and to communicate appropriate fire management actions and any restrictions on firefighting tactical techniques to an Incident Commander. Unless otherwise agreed, the Jurisdictional Agency will provide an Agency representative or appropriate environmental technical specialist to advise a Protecting Agency of any special management considerations that may influence suppression action. The Incident Commander will incorporate special management considerations into the incident planning process, subject to the delegation of authority. Each Operating Plan must address how Under Montana Statute, the entities will handle cost sharing for State’s objective in response to wildland fires that spread to another jurisdictionfire is suppression. Entities should recognize that, as in the, the Guidance for Implementation of Federal Wildland Fire Management Policy (2009), a wildland fire may concurrently be managed for one or more objectives. Additionally, objectives can change as the fire spreads across the landscape, affected by changes in environmental conditions, human influence, and institutional factors. Simply stated, some portions of a wildland fire may receive a protection objective while other portions are managed for resource objectives and may have multiple objectives, and those portions and objectives might change at some time over the duration of the event. The intent should never be to allow a wildland fire to burn onto a jurisdiction that does not want it. All Parties should be involved in developing the strategy and tactics to be used in preventing the fire from crossing the jurisdictional boundaryand protection boundaries, and all Parties should be involved in developing mitigations that would be used if prior to a fire crossing jurisdictional and protection boundaries. Each Operating Plan must address how the fire crosses jurisdictional boundariesentities will handle cost sharing for wildland fires that spread to another jurisdiction.

Response to Wildland Fire. All fire suppression action conducted by one Party party on lands of another Party shall be consistent with the Jurisdictional Agencyjurisdictional agency’s fire management policy, preplanned objectives for the area in which the fire occurs, and the terms of this Agreement. It is the expectation of the State that all fire threatening or burning State or Private Forested lands have a full suppression objective.‌ State and Private forestland owners pay a fire protection assessment to the IDL and, as such, expect the protecting agency to place a high value on protecting their timber resource. That includes using tactics and practices that keep fire away from state and private forestland and by using full suppression tactics to keep fire size small and minimize resource loss once fires start on or reach state or private forestlands. Specific objectives regarding protection of state and private forestland will be incorporated into the Delegation of Authority or Leader’s Intent document for all incoming Incident Management Teams (IMTs). A “Special Management Considerations Considerations” section in the Operating Plan, addressing resources and other management concerns, will be used by Unit Administrators of the Agencies to identify areas of special management consideration, and to communicate appropriate fire management actions and any restrictions on firefighting tactical techniques to an Incident Commander. Unless otherwise agreed, the Jurisdictional Agency will provide an Agency representative or appropriate environmental technical specialist to advise a Protecting Agency of any special management considerations that may influence suppression action. The Incident Commander will incorporate special management considerations into the incident planning process, subject to the delegation of authorityauthority or leaders intent. Each Operating Plan must address how the entities will handle cost cost-sharing for wildland fires that spread to another jurisdiction. Entities should recognize that, as in the, the “Guidance for Implementation of Federal Wildland Fire Management Policy (2009)”, a wildland fire may concurrently be managed for one or more objectives. Additionally, objectives can change as the fire spreads across the landscape, affected by changes in environmental conditions, human influence, and institutional factorsownership, management objectives. Simply stated, some portions of a wildland fire may receive a protection objective while other portions are managed for multiple objectives, and those portions and objectives might may change at some over time over the duration of during the event. The intent should never be to allow a wildland fire to burn onto a jurisdiction that does not want it. All Parties parties should be involved in developing the strategy and tactics to be used in preventing the fire from crossing the jurisdictional boundary, and all Parties parties should be involved in developing mitigations that would be used if the fire crosses jurisdictional boundaries.

Response to Wildland Fire. All actions taken on a fire suppression action conducted by one Party on lands of another Party shall will be consistent with the Jurisdictional Agency’s fire management policy, preplanned pre-planned objectives for the area in which the fire occurs, occurs and the terms of this Agreement. A Special Management Considerations section Jurisdictional Agencies will coordinate with Protecting Agencies on response expectations and land management requirements. Under Montana Statute, the State’s response to wildland fire is fire suppression. Federal wildfires that are not human-caused may be managed for multiple objectives in accordance with land and resource management plans. These areas and the Operating Plan, addressing resources and other management concerns, process for managing the fire will be used by Unit Administrators of the Agencies to identify areas of special management consideration, and to communicate appropriate fire management actions and any restrictions on firefighting tactical techniques to an Incident Commanderdocumented in local operating plans. Unless otherwise agreed, This may require the Jurisdictional Agency to fulfill certain fire management responsibilities. Adjacent fire protection entities, including state and local government, should be consulted about fire management strategies utilized in these areas, and share in the decision making process whenever possible. When a wildfire or that portion of a wildfire being managed to maintain and/or enhance resources, spreads to a protection area where it is not wanted, costs for that portion only will provide an Agency representative or appropriate environmental technical specialist to advise a Protecting Agency of any special management considerations that may influence be assumed by the jurisdictional agency(s) who established the objective. All fire agencies have primary responsibility for fire suppression actionwithin their respective protection areas. The Incident Commander will incorporate special management considerations into the incident planning process, subject to the delegation of authority. Each Operating Plan must address how the entities will handle cost sharing for wildland fires that spread to another jurisdiction. Entities should recognize thatAll Agencies, as in theappropriate, Guidance for Implementation of Federal Wildland Fire Management Policy (2009), a wildland fire may concurrently be managed for one or more objectives. Additionally, objectives can change as the fire spreads across the landscape, affected by changes in environmental conditions, human influence, and institutional factors. Simply stated, some portions of a wildland fire may receive a protection objective while other portions are managed for multiple objectives, and those portions and objectives might change at some time over the duration of the event. The intent should never be to allow a wildland fire to burn onto a jurisdiction that does not want it. All Parties should be involved in developing the strategy and tactics to be used in preventing the fire from crossing the jurisdictional boundarystrategy, tactics, and all Parties should be involved in developing mitigations that would mitigation actions to be used if the fire crosses has the potential to impact another protection area. When the fire spread to another protection area is imminent or appears likely, the Agencies will identify financial responsibilities and as appropriate, cost share methodologies, and document the decisions and rationale. If agreement cannot be reached regarding financial responsibilities, discussion will be elevated to the next level agency administrators for the respective agencies. Agency policy requires that a decision document be completed for all fires. Responsibility for development of the decision document shall be the joint responsibility of the Agency Administrators from the Jurisdictional Agency and the Protecting Agency of all affected Agencies. The decision documentation process will be described in local OPs. Protection responsibilities have been exchanged throughout Montana to promote efficiencies and reduce multi-agency response efforts. In areas where protection has been given to the State or another federal agency, the jurisdictional boundariesagency is not expected to provide suppression resources unless agreed to in writing between the local agencies involved. In these areas, jurisdictional agencies should not enter into suppression agreements with local departments or counties where they do not have protection responsibility.

Response to Wildland Fire. All fire suppression action conducted by one Party party on lands of another Party shall be consistent with the Jurisdictional Agencyjurisdictional agency’s fire management policy, preplanned objectives for the area in which the fire occurs, and the terms of this Agreement. A “Special Management Considerations Considerations” section in the Operating Plan, addressing resources and other management concerns, will be used by Unit Administrators of the Agencies to identify areas of special management consideration, and to communicate appropriate fire management actions and any restrictions on firefighting tactical techniques to an Incident Commander. Retardant may not be used within 300 feet of waterways and drainages unless authorized by Unit Agency Administrator. Exception; retardant may not be used within 500’ of the Conasauga River where it is located on National Forest lands. Unless otherwise agreed, the Jurisdictional Agency will provide an Agency representative or appropriate environmental technical specialist to advise a Protecting Agency of any special management considerations that may influence suppression action. The Incident Commander will incorporate special management considerations into the incident planning process, subject to the delegation of authority. Each Operating Plan must address how the entities will handle cost cost-sharing for wildland fires that spread to another jurisdiction. Entities should recognize that, as in the, the “Guidance for Implementation of Federal Wildland Fire Management Policy (2009)”, a wildland fire may concurrently be managed for one or more objectives. Additionally, objectives can change as the fire spreads across the landscape, affected by changes in environmental conditions, human influence, and institutional factors. Simply stated, some portions of a wildland fire may receive a protection objective while other portions are managed for multiple objectives, and those portions and objectives might change at some time over the duration of the event. The intent should never be to allow a wildland fire to burn onto a jurisdiction that does not want it. All Parties parties should be involved in developing the strategy and tactics to be used in preventing the fire from crossing the jurisdictional boundary, and all Parties parties should be involved in developing mitigations that would be used if the fire crosses jurisdictional boundaries.

Response to Wildland Fire. All fire suppression action conducted by one Party party on lands of another Party shall be consistent with the Jurisdictional Agencyjurisdictional agency’s fire management policy, preplanned pre-planned objectives for the area in which the fire occurs, and the terms of this Agreement. A “Special Management Considerations Considerations” section in the Operating Plan, addressing resources and other management concerns, will be used by Unit Administrators of the Agencies to identify areas of special management consideration, and to communicate appropriate fire management actions and any restrictions on firefighting tactical techniques to an Incident Commander. Unless otherwise agreed, the Jurisdictional Agency will provide an Agency representative or appropriate environmental technical specialist to advise a Protecting Agency of any special management considerations that may influence suppression action. The Incident Commander will incorporate special management considerations into the incident planning process, subject to the delegation of authority. Each Operating Plan must address how the entities will handle cost cost-sharing for wildland fires that spread to another jurisdiction. Entities should recognize that, as in the, the “Guidance for Implementation of Federal Wildland Fire Management Policy (2009)”, a wildland fire may concurrently be managed for one or more objectives. Additionally, objectives can change as the fire spreads across the landscape, affected by changes in environmental conditions, human influence, and institutional factors. Simply stated, some portions of a wildland fire may receive a protection objective while other portions are managed for multiple objectives, and those portions and objectives might change at some time over the duration of the event. The intent should never be to allow a wildland fire to burn onto a jurisdiction that does not want it. All Parties parties should be involved in developing the strategy and tactics to be used in preventing the fire from crossing the jurisdictional boundary, and all Parties parties should be involved in developing mitigations that would be used if the fire crosses jurisdictional boundaries.

Response to Wildland Fire. All fire suppression action conducted by one Party on lands of another Party Agency shall be consistent with the Jurisdictional Agencythat Agencies’s fire management policy, preplanned objectives for the area in which the fire occurs, and the terms of this Agreement. A “Special Management Considerations Considerations” section in the Agency Operating Plan, addressing resources and other management concerns, will be used by Unit Administrators of the Agencies to identify areas of special management consideration, and to communicate appropriate fire management actions and any restrictions on in firefighting tactical techniques to an Incident Commander. All suppression costs with respect to application of special management considerations will be paid by the Jurisdictional Agency. The Jurisdictional Agency shall have the authority to assume full management of any wildland fires on their jurisdictional lands in the special management areas. Special management areas will be delineated in the Operating Plans. Unless otherwise agreed, the Jurisdictional Agency will provide an Agency representative or appropriate environmental technical specialist to advise a Protecting Agency of any special management considerations that may influence suppression action. The Incident Commander will incorporate special management considerations into the incident planning process, subject to the delegation of authority. Each Annual Operating Plan must address how the entities will handle cost cost- sharing for wildland fires that spread to another jurisdiction. Entities should recognize that, as in the, the Guidance for Implementation of Federal Wildland Fire Management Policy (2009), a wildland fire may concurrently be managed for one or more objectives. Additionally, objectives can change as the fire spreads across the landscape, affected by changes in environmental conditions, human influence, and institutional factors. Simply stated, some portions of a wildland fire may receive a protection objective while other portions are managed for multiple resource objectives, and those portions and objectives might change at some time over the duration of the event. The intent should never be to allow a wildland fire to burn onto a jurisdiction that does not want it. All Parties parties should be involved in developing the strategy and tactics to be used in preventing the fire from crossing the jurisdictional boundary, and all Parties parties should be involved in developing mitigations that would be used if the fire crosses jurisdictional boundaries.