Progress Reports from the Field

Since their arrival in Ohio, Project Leaders for the Athens and Ironton FIREMON teams, Anna and Bobby, have been working closely together to establish team member housing, meeting with agency contacts at Wayne National Forest, and preparing for Corps Member Orientation.

After much preparation, all members of the Athens FIREMON Team arrived safely on site in Athens, Ohio. They were fully prepared with lots of great questions and plenty of enthusiasm. Both Athens and Ironton FIREMON teams have now completed Corps Member Orientation covering SCA policies, protocols, and values (see attached schedule). The Teams made a visit to the Athens County Farmer's Market to check out the local goods and ended the week with a celebratory community BBQ at the Project Leaders' house.

The teams are now preparing to travel to McCall, ID for Corps Member Training....

For the past few weeks, Chris has been working with Laura Peterson (Forest Service Fire Ecology Intern) to set up this year's schedule. Of course the schedule contains ample time for fuel plots, but it also contains numerous other activities that will provide for an enriching and well rounded summer for the corps members. In addition to completing the summer's schedule(at least for now), Chris has renewed his Wildland Firefighter's Red Card and he, Laura, and Andrew added to their fire credentials by successfully completing the S290 course of Intermediate Wildland Fire Behavior.

Looking to the future, the crew is getting ready to head to McCall, Idaho, for corps member training. After training, they will return to Utah and hit the ground running...Emma will get her Wildland Firefighters Red Card while Andrew, Laura, and Chris will return to Dixie to start monitoring fuel plots. Once she has received her Red Card, Emma will join the rest of the crew for plot work.

Project Dates : April 12 - October 1

Contact Information

Email : astencil@thesca.org
Phone Number : (208) 608 6320

The Great Plains FIREMON team is now in its 2nd full month and the crew is performing incredibly well! To close out June the team responded to a tall order at the Rosebud Agency by knocking out 23 plots in six days. After long days in the field, we enjoyed a little R & R while staying at the Salt Camp Cabins and Bed and Breakfast. Our first ‘hitch’ in July was spent working out of the house in Sturgis, seeing as how it was follow-up to our time at Rosebud. The team then traveled to Crow Creek Agency on the 13th for a full 8 day hitch. In addition to the nine re-measurements that were done, the crew also installed five new plots. While at Crow Creek we enjoyed the near legendary hospitality of our primary contact, Amos Isburg. The team also had the opportunity to explore the surrounding region, including a day trip to the state capitol of Pierre, SD. Editing function.

Trail building is so awesome and we did a really good job today.