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Abstract
Growing accumulations of fuel, changing climates, and residential development in forested landscapes have accelerated the risk of wildland fire, particularly in the western United States. The magnifying level of risk of fire in the urban–wildland interface requires multiple actors implementing coordinated fuel management, fire suppression, and community protection activities. The successful implementation of such actions is built upon trusting relationships in fire protection planning process. Trust is fundamental to cooperative human relationships and natural resource planning literature increasingly cites lack of trust as a major issue for plan implementation. This study of two community wildland fire protection planning processes revealed the importance of transparency in decisions, effective leadership, consensus on the framing of risk, and planning scale in affecting trust. Based on these results, five suggestions are offered as necessary conditions to promote effective community wildland fire protection plans.
Notes
a All figures taken from Seeley-Swan Fire Plan (Citation2008).
b Figures taken from U.S. Census Bureau (2000).
c Montana Natural Resource Information System (2011).
d The Plum Creek Lumber Company recently formed a real estate investment trust but still owns and manages a significant amount of this land.
HFRA, Sec. 103 (b) (1) states, “The Secretary shall consider recommendations under subsection (a) that are made by at-risk communities that have developed community wildfire protection plans.”