Grants Clearinghouse

Completing the grant proposal is a two-step process.

1) Filling out the Grant Proposal

Create a grant proposal on your My Home page for each project you plan to write up.
- My Home is your home page on the clearinghouse. You access it by entering your user ID and password. This means other applicants will not see your grant proposal and you can return to the clearinghouse to complete it on your schedule. You can share your user ID and password to have multiple people contribute to the grant proposal when they have time to do it.
Fill out a grant proposal online or offline. Note, you must be logged on to the internet to save changes to your grant proposal.
- Keep answers succinct, but provide adequate explanation.
- When entering dollars, use whole dollars. Do not use punctuation when entering dollars in these boxes because it will zero-out your entry:
Funding requested
Match amount
Workplan cost estimate box
Budget form
Quarterly payment needs
Quarterly Match amounts
Project Overview

2) Submitting the Grant Proposal to the Clearinghouse

You must be online to submit
Your grant proposal must be complete to submit. If it isn't, you will get a message from the clearinghouse as to which section you need to complete to be able to submit.
After you submit, you should get an e-mail from the clearinghouse confirming your submittal. If you do not get an e-mail confirmation, contact the clearinghouse at grants@firesafecouncil.org or 800/372-2543 (FS CALIF).

Helpful Resources

These Instructions:
Use these instructions to guide you in properly filling out the grant proposal. The instructions may refer you to other helpful sources. One of those is the Office of Management and Budget's circulars governing grant management. Organizations need to factor principles from the circulars into their grant proposals to facilitate adequate project funding and avoid having costs disallowed. Organizations that receive funding will be required to comply with the relevant circulars:

Organization Type Admin. Requirements Cost Principles Audit Requirements

Institutions of higher education¹, hospitals² and other nonprofit organizations³ A-110 as implemented in 2 CFR 215 A-21¹
45 CFR 74, app E²
A-122³ A-133

State and local governments, federally recognized
Indian tribal governments A-102 as implemented by each agency in the Code of Fed. Regs. A-87 A-133

Grantwriting Sessions
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Resource Center
Go to the Resource Center for FAQs and a sample grant proposal

E-mail
Write the clearinghouse with questions at grants@firesafecouncil.org

Call Us
800/372-2543 (FS CALIF).

Completing the Grant Proposal Step-by-Step

Organizational Information

Organization Name
Enter the name of the organization applying for project funding.
Address, City, State, Zip
Enter this information for the organization.
Administrative Contact Person, Phone, Fax, E-mail
Enter this information for the person who will be the contact for administrative matters.
Project Contact Person, Phone, Fax, E-mail
Enter this information for the person who will manage the project.
Type of Organization
Check the appropriate box. If you are applying from a state agency, you must have spending authority. Contact your budget office to learn more. The applicant organization must have legal standing. For example, if you are a Nonprofit, Profit, or Other organization, you must be incorporated to do business in the State of California and have a Federal Employer Identification Number (EIN). If you don't and your project is selected for funding, then at that time, we will ask you to identify a fiscal sponsor that has legal standing to act as your grant's financial administrator.
Fiscal Sponsor Organization Name
If another organization will be the fiscal sponsor of your project, fill out this section. When you do, funding will be provided to your fiscal sponsor for your project.
Fiscal Sponsor Address, City, State, Zip
Enter this information for the organization.
Fiscal Sponsor Contact Person, Phone, Fax, E-mail
Enter this information for the person who will manage the grant funds.
Fiscal Sponsor Type of Organization
Pick from the drop-down menu. If the applicant organization does not have legal standing, then the fiscal sponsor must. For example, if you are a Nonprofit, Profit, or Other organization, you must be incorporated to do business in the State of California and have a Federal Employer Identification Number (EIN).
Project Name and Priority
Enter your proposed project's name. Enter the project's priority per grant proposal submitted per applicant organization or fiscal sponsor. Example: 1 of 1, 3 of 5 etc.

Financial Information

Funding Requested List the amount of grant funding you're requesting for the project. This number must match the number in question 13 TOTAL, question 32 Federal Cost TOTAL and 1j. of your budget form. Enter whole dollars (no cents) and do not use punctuation marks.
Match Amount by Organization Show the dollar amount of the match by the organization(s) providing the match. Enter whole dollars (no cents) and do not use punctuation marks. All non-federal contributions, including cash and third-party in-kind are eligible for match. The match shown in your grant proposal cannot be used as a match for any other federally-assisted project or program. For more information on match, see OMB Circulars A-102 or 2 CFR 215.24 or A-110: 2 CFR 215.23 (www.OMB.gov or http://www.whitehouse.gov/omb/fedreg/2004/040511_grants.pdf). The total must match question 14 TOTAL, question 32 Match Contribution TOTAL and the sum of 2j. and 3j. in the budget form.
Submit a letter of commitment from each organization providing a match to the project. Each letter of commitment must be on the organization's letterhead providing the match and signed by the organization's official representative. For identification purposes, each letter must include the project's name and the name of the applicant organization as they appear in the grant proposal. Each letter of commitment must describe what the organization will provide and the value of what they will provide. If the applicant organization is providing match, no letter is needed. Mail or fax signed letters to 877/372-2543 (fax); mail to P.O. Box 2106, Glendora, CA 91740. The letters must be RECEIVED by the grant proposal submittal deadline of Feb. 20, 2009, midnight, for your project to be considered for funding.

Project Location

Latitude & Longitude
Enter this information in decimals. Find the needed information at http://wildfire.cr.usgs.gov/fireplanning/. Run the Fire Planning and Mapping Tool Viewer. Retrieve the map with your project's boundaries and click Display Latitude and Longitude. Enter the information in Decimal Degrees only. Latitude is expressed in numbers as DD.DDD N; Longitude is expressed in numbers as - DDD.DDD W. Latitude example: 41.995 N; Longitude example: -122.622 W. If your project covers a large area, such as a county, choose the coordinates that best represent the project boundaries.
Fire on Federal Lands Risk
If you answer yes to this question, make sure to select the appropriate agency(ies) that own or manage the land. Once you select an agency nearby, choose from the drop down menu to select the nearest national park, monument, recreational area, forest, refuge or field office to your project area. If you need help, contact local agency representatives or consult a map for this information. Also select one of two options listed to note how far your project is from federal land in miles.
Congressional District
Enter the district number(s) for the project location. Find Congressional District numbers for California at http://www.calvoter.org/maps; Nevada at http://mapserve.leg.state.nv.us/website/lcb/viewer.htm, and Hawaii at http://www.hawaii.gov/elections/maps/precinctdescriptions/2006
State Assembly District
Select the State Assembly district by number(s) in which your project is located. Find CA State Assembly districts at www.calvoter.org/maps : NV State Assembly at http://mapserve.leg.state.nv.us/website/lcb/viewer.htm; and HI State Assembly at http://www.capitol.hawaii.gov/site1/info/vstreet/voterinformation.asp?press1=info&press2=vstreet
State Senate District
Select the State Senate district by number(s) in which your project is located. Find CA State Senate districts at www.calvoter.org/maps; NV State Senate Districts at http://mapserve.leg.state.nv.us/website/lcb/viewer.htm ; and HI State Senate Districts at http://www.capitol.hawaii.gov/site1/info/vstreet/voterinformation.asp?press1=info&press2=vstreet
County
First select the state in which the proposed project will take place. Then select the county of the proposed project from the check boxes. If your project is in the Sierra Nevada Conservancy's service area of the following counties, you may be eligible for Prop. 84 funding: El Dorado, Lassen, Mono, Shasta, Tuolumne, Amador, Fresno, Madera, Nevada, Sierra, Yuba, Butte, Inyo, Mariposa, Placer, Tehama, Calaveras, Kern, Modoc, Plumas, Tulare. Please visit http://www.sierranevadaconservancy.ca.gov/html/snc_region.html for a full area listing. Please respond to the additional seven questions concerning Prop. 84 if you are interested in being considered for this funding program. If the project is in an eligible county, but you don't want to be considered for Prop. 84 funding, then just put n/a in the response sections.

Project Overview

Project Deliverables
Use the definitions below to help you identify the type of project(s) you're proposing. Then, check the appropriate box(es). You can check more than one box. Fill out the "Amount Projected" and "Federal Cost" information for each project type you check. For example, if you check Mechanical Treatment and Prescribed Fire Treatment, note acres to be treated using each method and the cost to the grant (Federal Cost), e.g., Mechanical treatment 32, 5000, Prescribed fire, 5, 2500.
Type of Project Definitions
- Community Assessment Wildfire Planning
  - Community Risk Assessments: An analysis of community values at risk, levels of protection and fire hazards to the community.
  - Community Wildfire Protection Plans (CWPP): CWPPs help prioritize fuel treatment projects across jurisdictional boundaries in a manner envisioned in the Healthy Forests Restoration Act, National Fire Plan and 10-Year Comprehensive Strategy.
    
    Key Points:
    CWPPs are generally developed by local government, and/or a fire safe council with assistance from state and federal agencies, and other interested partners. Plans take a variety of forms and may be as simple or complex as necessary, based on the specific needs and desires of the local community or county. While plans do not need to be overly complicated they should effectively address local forest and range conditions, assets-at-risk, and priorities for action.
    
    The minimum requirements for a CWPP are:
    - Collaboration. A CWPP must be collaboratively developed with meaningful involvement from state and federal agencies that manage land in the vicinity of the community and other interested parties, particularly non-governmental stakeholders.
    - Prioritized Fuel Reduction. A CWPP must identify and prioritize areas for hazardous fuel reduction treatments on both federal and non-federal land and recommend the types and methods of treatment that, if completed, would reduce the risk to the community.
    - Treatment of Structural Ignitability. A CWPP must recommend measures that homeowners and communities can take to reduce the ignitability of structures throughout the area addressed by the plan.
      
      The Healthy Forests Restoration Act requires that three entities must mutually agree to the final contents of a CWPP:
      - The applicable local government (eg, counties or cities);
      - The local fire departments; and
      - The state agency responsible for forest management.
- Information/Education
  - Workshops & Training: An educational meeting or forum that provides education to stakeholders that results in the reduction of community vulnerability to loss from wildfire (e.g., Firewise workshop or similar). Essential elements of a workshop include instruction or activity that informs participants about local wildland fire issues, history and behavior, and emphasizes the reduction of flammable fuels adjacent to, and within, wildland-urban interface (WUI) areas.
  - Outreach & Education: Efforts to educate and create behavioral change resulting in fuel modification around homes in the WUI. Activities include, community outreach events, home evaluations, media/public information events, training residents, signing, GIS/Community mapping, data collection, coordination and distribution. Example: Your community education project includes a media event, 16 public events, a new sign program and 2 training sessions for residents. Total = 1 + 16 + 1 + 2 = 20
  - Education/Information Products: Products used to educate and create behavioral change resulting in fuel modification around homes in the wildland-urban interface. Products include brochures, calendars, news releases, refrigerator packets, window signs, flags, etc. Count each type of product once. Example: Your project includes creating a defensible space clearance brochure, senior assistance window signs and a news release. Total: 3.
- Fuels Treatment
  - Preparation for treatment: Activities undertaken to prepare the area for fuels treatment.
  - Mechanical treatment: Work that manually removes or modifies fuel loading to minimize fire hazard.
  - Prescribed fire treatment: To deliberately burn wildland fuels in either their natural or modified state and under specified environmental conditions, which allows the fire to be confined to a predetermined area and produces the fireline intensity and rate of spread required to attain planned resource management objectives.
  - Other treatment: work that involves the use of chemicals and/or biological methods to reduce hazard from wildfire.
  How to calculate acres: First convert all measurements to feet. Then multiply the length by the width of the project size. Next, convert feet to acres by dividing total by 43,560 (sq ft/acre). Finally, round up to whole acres. For residential treatments, estimate the average size of the treated area, say 0.5 acres, then multiply by the total number of properties treated.
- Values Protected
  Use the definitions below to help you estimate the value of resources and values protected by your project. All Grant Proposals including educational or public outreach projects must answer these questions.
- Homes Protected: The total number of homes that are directly (such as defensible space) or indirectly (such as a fuel break) protected from wildfire.
- Community members protected: The total number of individuals living in the community that are protected from wildfire by your project. Educational projects can protect community members by increasing awareness that creates behavioral change.
- Property protected: The total value of property protected from wildfire by your project.

Project Summary
Use this section to describe your project. Key points:

Keep your descriptions brief, yet give complete answers. Stay on the subject of the question.
The proposed project or the problem/area it addresses should be identified in a plan, for example, a community wildfire protection plan. Projects that are will rank higher. If your project is to create a plan, explain the need for the plan.
To find out if your project or the area to be addressed by your project is in a Community Wildfire Protection Plan (CWPP), contact your local fire department, local government or state forester. Also, links to some CWPPs are available at http://www.cafirealliance.org/cwpp/cwpp_status.
To find out if your project is in a DMA 2000 Local Hazard Mitigation Plan, contact your local department of emergency services.
To find out if you project or area to be addressed by your project is in another type of plan, contact your local fire department, land management agency, utility district, etc. Sources include, but are not limited to the California Department of Forestry & Fire Protection, USDA Forest Service, USDI Bureau of Land Management, USDI Fish & Wildlife Service and USDI National Park Service.
Community(ies)-At-Risk Affected by Project
Enter the name(s) of the community(ies) at risk that will benefit from the project. (reference pages 43387-43391 of www.fireplan.gov/reports/351-358-en.pdf) Only include communities from this list. Do not use this section to expound on the virtues or your project or of the fire risk to communities in the area.
If communities other than those in the communities-at-risk section will benefit, list them in the question that asks about other communities than communities-at-risk affected by the project.
Funders have a responsibility to give grants to organizations that demonstrate the ability to effectively manage funds and projects from start to finish. Projects that fit in an organization's mission are more likely to be successful than those that don't. History and major accomplishments are indicators of organizational capability.
Describe your current programs and activities to demonstrate your capabilities. If you have numerous programs, explain capacity to handle more.
Explain how your organization will staff the project, including any new staff needed. Identify by name specific paid and volunteer staff that will ensure the project gets completed successfully and will ensure federal funds are safeguarded. If personnel are to be hired or contracted, describe.
Condition Class & Fire Regime
Check the appropriate box(es). Find your project’s condition class(es): Federal Condition Class definitions, CDF Fire Hazard Severity Zones map. If you use the CDF map, convert the hazard zones to federal condition class as follows
- CDF Moderate Hazard Zone = Federal Condition Class 2
- CDF High Hazard Zone = Federal Condition Class 3
- CDF Very High Hazard Zone = Federal Condition Class 3
Fire Regime
Check the appropriate box(es). Find your project’s fire regime(es): Federal Fire Regime definitions
Sustainability
Describe how this project will create community responsibility and capacity for making itself fire safe after the grant term ends.
Outcomes
Describe indicators of success for your project. How will your area/region/neighborhood be affected by your project and how might it change? How will you know your project has succeeded?

Workplan

First, fill out the photo monitoring task. This is mandatory because before, during and after photos are important to showing how your project is making a difference. Showing success is important to being able to have these grant programs funded each year.
Use whole dollars. In the cost estimate box, do not use punctuation.
List tasks and timeframes, including environmental compliance, partner and public involvement, quarterly reporting, final reporting, photo monitoring and "success story" development. Cost calculations should show the task/service (e.g., #hours, # trips, #acres) and unit cost (e.g., $/hr., $/acre) = $ Federal Cost for a task. If the task is utilizing donations of in-kind or cash, please indicate in the “Match Contribution” section The workplan will total your task costs. The Federal Cost TOTAL must match the number in questions 11, 13 TOTAL, and 1 j. of your budget form. The Match Contribution TOTAL must match questions 12 TOTAL, 14 TOTAL and the sum of 2j. and 3 j. on your budget form.

Budget Form
The budget is divided into cost categories and funding sources. Cost categories show major types of expenditures. Important cost category information is in the OMB Circulars. Funding Sources shows where the money for the project will come from: Grant (the money you’re requesting via the grant proposal), Applicant (match provided by the applicant organization, and Other Partners (match provided by the partners in the project). Place a dollar value on match provided and include it in the budget. The number in 1 j. must match questions 11, 13 TOTAL, and 32 Federal Cost TOTAL. The sum of 2j. and 3j. on your budget form must match questions 12 TOTAL, 14 TOTAL and 32 Match Contribution TOTAL.

Use whole dollars and do not use punctuation.

Personnel - Personnel are employees. Personnel is addressed in OMB Circulars A-87, Attach. B.11; A-21, J.8, A-122, Attach. B.7.
Fringe Benefits - Fringe benefits are "allowances and services provided by employers to employees as compensation in addition to their regular salaries and wages." Fringe benefits is addressed in OMB Circulars A-87, Attach. B.11.d; A-122, Attach. B.7.f.; A-21, J.8.f.
Travel - Travel is addressed in OMB Circulars A-87, Attach. B.41; A-21, J.48; A-122, Attach. B.55.
Equipment - Equipment is "an article of tangible personal property having a useful life of more than one year and an acquisition cost which equals or exceedsÖ$5,000." Equipment is addressed in 43 CFR, Part 12.72 and 7 CFR, Part 3016.32; and OMB Circular A-110, C.ß__.34 or 2 CFR 215.34, and OMB Circulars A-87, Attach. B, 19; A-21, J.16; A-122, Attach. B. 15.
Supplies - Supplies are items that do not fit the definition of equipment. Supplies is addressed in 43 CFR Part 12.73 and 7 CFR 3016.33; OMB Circular A-110, C. ß__.35; or 2 CFR 215.35.
Contractual - Contracting (procurement) includes contracting for goods and/or services. It is addressed in 43 CFR, Part 12.76 and 7 CFR, Part 3016.36; OMB Circular A-110, C. ß__.40-.48; or 2 CFR 215.40-.48
Other - Include costs that do not fit into the other cost categories
Total Direct Costs - The sum of cost categories a.-g. Direct costs are those identified specifically with the project. Direct costs are addressed in OMB Circulars A-87, Attach. A, E.; A-21, D.; A-122, Attach. A, B.
Indirect Charges - Indirect charges are those that cannot be readily identified with a particular project. Indirect costs are addressed in OMB Circulars A-87, Attach. A, F.; A-21, E.-H.; A-122, Attach. A, C.
Project Total -- The sum of h.-i. The number in 1 j. must match questions 11 (page 2), 13 (page 2), and 32 Federal Cost TOTAL (page 6).
Program Income - Program income is gross income received by the funded organization directly generated by a grant supported activity, or earned only as a result of the grant agreement during the grant period. Program Income is addressed in 43 CFR, Part 12.65 and 7 CFR, Part 3016.25; OMB Circular A-110, C. ß__.24; or 2 CFR 215.24.

Fuel Treatment Projects
Fill out this section only if your project is a Fuels Treatment project.

Fuel Reduction Treatment Categories
You are being asked to provide additional detail about the treatment type.

Treatment Type
Check the box(es) for the appropriate treatment type located underneath the category(ies) of your treatment. Next to the checked treatment type, please indicate the number of acres. Total acres are calculated by treatment type and should match question #20 (page 4), Fuel Treatment total. Example 10 chipping acres + 10 thinning= 20 Total Mechanical Acres

Preparation for Treatment - A Treatment Category that describes work done to prepare the area for fuels treatment.

Mechanical (Treatment) - A Treatment Category that describes work that manually removes or modifies fuel loading to minimize fire hazard.

Chipping (Type) - A Mechanical Type Treatment. Use of a stationary machine for chipping small trees, limbs, tops, and brush. Chips are larger and courser than sawdust. Treated vegetation is usually moved to a central location for chipping, and can be scattered or blown back into the woods or into a van for transport to an off-site location.

Crushing (Type) - A Mechanical Type Treatment. Use of a vehicular machine for crushing and flattening small trees and brush. Treated vegetation is usually left onsite.

Hand Pile (Type) - A Mechanical Type Treatment. Piles of slash (vegetative debris from hazardous fuel reduction projects) constructed by hand of such size and at such distance from trees so that burning shall not result in unnecessary damage to residual timber, and with construction of a fireline to bare mineral soil.

Lop and Scatter (Type) - A Mechanical Type Treatment.

Felling, cutting branches, tops, and unwanted boles into lengths and spreading debris more or less evenly over the ground.
Logging slash or fuel reduction debris cut and or scattered to reduce slash concentrations with slash being generally left within 18 or 30 inches of the ground. Slash is scattered into openings away from and without unnecessary damage to residual trees.

Mastication/Mowing (Type) - A Mechanical Type Treatment. Chopping, grinding, and/or mowing treatments, usually by mechanical means, to reduce fuel bed depth or crowning potential. The primary target is usually live fuels, such as brush and small trees, but can be used in light loadings of dead fuels. Vegetation is usually left in place.

Machine Pile - A Mechanical Type Treatment. Piles of slash (vegetative debris from hazardous fuel reduction projects) constructed using vehicular machines of such size and at such distance from trees so that burning shall not result in unnecessary damage to residual timber, and with construction of a fireline to bare mineral soil.

Biomass Removal (Type) - A Mechanical Type Treatment. The removal, through harvest, sale, offer, trade or utilization, of trees and woody biomass, including limbs, tops, needles, leaves and other woody parts; removal may result in the production of the full range of wood products, including timber, engineered lumber, paper and pulp, furniture and value-added commodities, and bio-energy and/or bio-based products such as plastics, ethanol, and diesel.

Tree Felling & Removal - A Mechanical Type Treatment. The falling and removal of trees that are a hazard to human safety and property. Falling is usually done by hand tools, such as chainsaw, or mechanically using feller-bunchers or cut-to-length systems.

Thinning (Type) - A Mechanical Type Treatment. A cultural treatment made to reduce forest or woodland density of trees primarily to improve growth, enhance forest health, recover potential mortality or reduce hazardous fuels. Treatment can be by hand tools, such as chainsaw, machete, sandvik brush axes or brush hooks, or mechanical thinning using feller-bunchers or cut-to-length systems.

Prescribed Fire (Treatment) - A Treatment Category. To deliberately burn wildland fuels in either their natural or modified state and under specified environmental conditions, which allows the fire to be confined to a predetermined area and produces the fireline intensity and rate of spread required to attain planned resource management objectives.

Broadcast Burn (Type) - A Prescribed Fire Type Treatment. A prescribed fire that is allowed to burn over a designated area within well-defined boundaries to achieve some land management objective.

Fire Use (Type) - A Prescribed Fire Type Treatment. A wildfire that is allowed to burn over an area within well-defined boundaries to achieve some land management objective.

Hand Pile Burn (Type) - A Prescribed Fire Type Treatment. To deliberately burn hand piles under specified environmental conditions, which allows the fire to be confined to the perimeter of the hand pile area and produces the intensity required to attain planned fuel reduction objectives.

Machine Pile Burn (Type) - A Prescribed Fire Type Treatment. To deliberately burn machine piles under specified environmental conditions, which allows the fire to be confined to the perimeter of the machine pile area and produces the intensity required to attain planned fuel reduction objectives. Machine pile and burn treatments are distinguished from Jackpot Burn by construction of a fireline to bare mineral soil around each machine pile.

Other (Treatment) - A Treatment Category that describes work that involves the use of chemicals and/or biological methods to reduce hazard from wildfire.

Chemical (Type) - An Other Type Treatment. The application of a pesticide (insecticide or herbicide) to control or kill pest species.

Biological (Type) - An Other Type Treatment. The artificial application of a natural control agent to regulate pest species; treatment examples include introduction of foraging species, predators or parasites to control plant or animal pests.

Browsing (Type) - An Other Type Treatment. The eating of any kind of standing vegetation by animals. Grazing Management is the manipulation of grazing or browsing animals to accomplish a desired result.

Environmental compliance
Indicate where your project is in the environmental compliance process. There is no right or wrong answer, it's simply important to communicate if, and what, environmental compliance work has been done that would cover the proposed project. If this is a fuels treatment project and the environmental compliance document is fully complete, please provide the type of document and certification date. If not fully complete, identify what has been undertaken, what still needs to be completed and how much of the budget will be used for environmental compliance. Learn more about environmental compliance: California Fire Alliance.

NEPA and CEQA compliance
Indicate if NEPA and/or CEQA has been completed for the proposed project.

Approximate acreage and seasonal constraints
Note the acreage of surface disturbance and seasonal constraints such as limited prescribed fire during fire season or nesting periods of animal species.

Proposed months of treatment
Note the months of the year during which you would like to do the treatment.

Time of day of treatment
Note the time of day during which you would like to do the treatment.

Existing Road
Provide any explanation you think is relevant.

Off-road and Distance of off-road travel required
Select yes or no, and provide any explanation you think is relevant.

New roads
Provide a description of the location of new road development for this project.

Distance from live stream and site characteristics
Indicate by choosing a selection in feet measurement the distance from live stream, wetlands or other special site characteristics.

Dominant vegetation type
Select only one type that best describes the dominant type in the project area. If you select "Other," be specific about the type of vegetation.

Vegetation modification
Select the type of vegetation to be treated from the drop-down menu. Describe how the treatment will be performed, what type of equipment will be used, who will perform the work and how they will work on the project.

Generate biomass
Select yes or no if your project will generate biomass by selecting saw logs, chips, firewood, fuel wood, post and poles or indicate Other type. Biomass is any plant material removed from the site. Estimate the volume of biomass by using the following formula:

Cubic Volume: Refers to the amount of wood in a tree or log. Expressed as cubic feet. Please see the table below for the cubic volume by DBH class. So if you have 10 trees that are 9 inches DBH the volume of each tree is 6 cubic feet, multiplied by 10 trees so, the total volume would be 60 cubic feet.

Cord: A standard cord of firewood is 128 cubic feet of wood, generally measured as a pile 8 feet long by 4 feet tall by 4 feet deep.

Lineal feet: is the accumulated length so if you have 10 poles each 8 feet long the total lineal feet would be 80.

Green ton: Please see the table below

Diameter Breast Height (DBH), is measured 4.5 feet above the ground level on the uphill side of the tree.

Diameter Breast Height (DBH) Cubic Volume Density Conversion Factor (Bole and Branch) Weight per Cubic Foot Tree Weight (lbs)

4 1.0 2.12 48 101

5 1.5 2.09 48 150

6 2.0 2.05 48 196

7 3.5 2.02 48 339

8 5.0 1.98 48 475

9 6.0 1.94 48 559

10 7.0 1.85 48 622

11 8.0 1.77 48 680

12 11.5 1.70 48 938

13 15.5 1.62 48 1205

14 20.0 1.58 48 1516

To find the number of green tons: All of the conversions have been made in the table above, so all you have to do is count the number of trees in each diameter class, and multiply that by the Tree Weight (column 5) for that diameter. As an example you are removing 30 trees that are 8 inch DBH, and 50 trees that are 10 inch DBH; So you would multiply 30 * 475 lbs = 14,250 lbs plus 50 trees * 622 lbs = 31,100 lbs. Then add 14,250 + 31,100 = 45,350 lbs

45,350 lbs divided by 2,000 lbs (1-ton) = 22.68 green tons

Biomass utilized
Indicate if you will make use of your biomass

Elderberry
Self-explanatory.

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