NEWS RELEASE - WILDFIRE RECOVERY ORGANIZATION SUBMITS MASTER AGREEMENT TO FOREST SERVICE

Post-Fire Trail Repair and Equipment Training

NEWS RELEASE

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

Contact: Don Amador, President

Phone: 925.783.1834

Email: damador@pwora.org

Date: August 9, 2019

WILDFIRE RECOVERY ORGANIZATION SUBMITS MASTER AGREEMENT TO FOREST SERVICE

     OAKLEY, CA (Aug. 9) – The Post Wildfire OHV Recovery Alliance (PWORA) recently filed a draft Master Agreement application to the U. S. Forest Service Region 5 located in Vallejo, California.

     The final agreement will formalize a cooperative partnership between PWORA and the FS so that it can mobilize, train, and manage a workforce of specialists, consultants, volunteers, and youth conservation groups and deploy those resources to mitigate post-disaster impacts that occur on National Forest System roads, trails, and areas.

Dirt Bike-based Strike Teams to Clear Trails

     Recovery projects include but are not limited to, soil condition surveys, watershed trail management, BMP effectiveness storm monitoring, NEPA and CEQA draft environmental documents and specialists reports, Forest plan implementation, supplemental OHV fire recovery plans, cultural and heritage site protection implementation and monitoring, campground development or redevelopment, transportation analysis, trail maintenance, bridge and culvert design and installation,  travel management, multi-use designations, trail reroutes, trail design and layout, hazard tree abatement, fuel reduction or management of fuel loading, reforestation, grant writing, and project accomplishment reporting.

Installing Post Wildfire Travel Management Signs 

     PWORA will also offer certified training for both agency and non-agency personnel and volunteers in the following disciplines: MTDC Chainsaw Training Course, BASIC Training for the SUTTER 300/ 480/500 & SWECO 450/480 Trail Tractors, Excavators, Rubber Tracked Skid-Steer Loaders, Tracked Carriers, and Post Fire Trail Reconstruction for Wildland Fire Dozer Operators, ROHVA ROV/SxS Training, ASI ATV training, and MSF Dirt-Bike School instruction.

Use of No-Dig Trail Delineators and other Travel Management Prescriptions

    Don Amador, PWORA President, states, “Getting the Master Agreement finalized is our top priority so that PWORA can cooperate with the Forest Service on important post-wildfire recovery projects and to authorize us to provide critically important training opportunities for our contract trail crews, volunteers, and agency staff.”

     “PWORA looks forward to working with our civilian, agency, and industry partners as we grow both our professional and volunteer workforce to assist in recreation recovery efforts both during and after the wildfire or other natural disaster,” Amador concludes.

    Current members of the PWORA board are Del Albright, Don Amador, Jeff Blewett, Matson Breakey, Art Crofts, Cam Lockwood, and Eric Lueder.

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Post Wildfire OHV Recovery Alliance (PWORA) is a national 501 (c) (3) non-profit organization founded to protect and restore sustainable OHV recreation from the devastating effects of intense wildfires and other natural disasters. PWORA will collaborate with a diverse array of multi-interest strategic partners to mobilize volunteers and deploy resources to mitigate post-disaster impacts to recreation areas.  You may contact PWORA president, Don Amador via email at: damador@pwora.org – Web: www.pwora.org