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1	Community-Based Recovery from Wildfire Healing Watersheds and People
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3	What Do Communities Need After Wildfire Strikes? Healing “Help our mountain” Some positive action “Thank you firefighters” Reduce the risk of flooding before the start of the monsoon season
4	Volunteers Can Be Used in Watershed Stabilization If Agencies Cooperate: The Cerro Grande Experience Multi-Agency Volunteer Task Force Los Alamos County USDA Forest Service National Park Service Los Alamos National Laboratory United States Geological Survey Citizen groups
5	Volunteers Under Incident Command Structure
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13	Accomplishments 23,500 work hours 500-600 acres raked, seeded and mulched 66,000 sandbags filled and placed Over 1,900 volunteers
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15	What Do Communities Need After Wildfire Strikes? Public desire to help with emergency trail rebuilding
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17	We’re Doing Something Right:
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19	What Do Communities Need A Year After Wildfire Strikes? Reforestation: planting trees Continued watershed stabilization Continued trail work Education in the schools
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23	Continued Threat of Flooding: Continued Watershed Stabilization
24	Continued Threat of Flooding: Continued Watershed Stabilization Takes Many Volunteers
25	Continued Public Information
26	"Trail repair" Trail repair Understory seeding Riparian zone planting Invasive species monitoring and eradication
27	One Year Later 2001 Volunteers 12,000 pine seedlings planted in 6 days 200 acres seeded and mulched with over 1,500 volunteers 3 miles of trail rebuilt 4 miles of trail constructed
28	Fire Education in Schools
29	Reaching Students Through Rebuilding a Trail Mountain Elementary 30% of students lost their homes to Cerro Grande Laura Patterson and Gerry Washburn propose that 6^th grade students rebuild the Quemazon Trail
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33	VTF Field Day Components
34	Students present data to the community
35	What Do Communities Need After Wildfire Strikes? The opportunity to help themselves Continuing partnership among agencies Continuing education on fire and rehabilitation Combination of community service and learning Continuity of the program beyond the first, second, third year…however long it takes
36	Partnerships Los Alamos Public Schools United States Geological Survey National Park Service Los Alamos County University of New Mexico Pajarito Plateau Watershed Partnership Grand Canyon Forest Partnership Valles Caldera National Preserve Los Alamos Family YMCA Los Alamos Pathways Association Tuff Riders Mountain Bike Club New Mexico Environment Department Chimayo Crime Prevention Organization Regional Schools (Pojoaque, Tesuque, Santa Fe, Floyd) National Hispanic Environmental Council
37	"Contact" Contact Web site: www.volunteertaskforce.org Email: info@volunteertaskforce.org