The new online tool, released in its beta version this week, seeks to promote more collaboration across agencies on larger wildfire prevention projects.
Fidel Tupul, left, uses a chainsaw to cut dead branches in the Mt. Tamalpais watershed near Sky Oaks Road in Fairfax on Thursday, Aug. 24, 2023. He was on a crew contracted by the Marin Wildfire Prevention Authority to reduce fire fuels near residences. that it says will provide a first-of-its-kind map showing all forest and fire prevention work completed in California.
Patrick Wright, director of Newsom’s California Wildfire and Forest Resilience Task Force, said giving these agencies and communities a better understanding of work that has taken place so far can help them coordinate projects that cover larger areas compared to individual projects. “The significance of the tracking system is it will facilitate more large landscape collaborative efforts like One Tam,” Wright said. “You will have the data now on what everyone is doing. So instead of having in Marin County a local fire district submit a grant, the county submit a grant and so on, you can submit a big grant by multiple agencies to transition from project-by-project work to landscape-level work.
One of the challenges in the state’s effort is that many agencies, especially local agencies, do not have the bandwidth to create geographical information system data, known as GIS. The fire authority recently signed a contract with the Green Info Network to begin collecting this GIS data of fire prevention work in Marin, which can be exported to the state’s tracker.
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