WCAA Walker Firewise

 

       
     
       
       
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Walker Firewise Documents
 2025 Walker Firewise Action Plan
Walker Community Assessment
The Walker Forest Stewardship Plan		    
       
  Can Your Home Survive A Wildland Fire?
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Your WCAA Walker Firewise committee is constantly on the lookout for grant funding and other means to assist Walker property owners to help improve their properties for wildfire protection and to improve overall forest health.

Our Walker forest is currently overstocked as a result of natrural fire suppression for over 150 years. The result is our current unhealthy forest condition.

The Forest Service is doing their part. Do a search for "Hassayampa Restoration Project". This project is the reason for the trees marked with orange paint. Those are the trees to keep and not be removed.

As property owners, we must do our part to regain a healthier forest which will reduce the intensity of a wildland fire and reduce the likelyhood of a new full-scale bark beetle attact exacerbated by the current drought.
    
       
  2025/26 Title III Grant
A federal grant administered by Arizona Department of Forestry and Fire Management		    
  Government funding for the 2025/26 Title III grant has been greatly reduced. This the funding source that has helped pay for our Walker Chip & Haul program in past years.    
       
  CURRENT ACTIVE MITIGATION GRANT
HFI 23-353		    
  On July 29, 2024, Walker Community Action Alliance (WCAA) received notification that it received a reimbusable grant of $162,528.00 to treat 70.64 acres within our community. Due to one large property owner withdrawing from the program, WCAA Firewise reduced our obligation by giving up 20 acres to another community. Our new goal is to treat 50.64 acres. This is a reimbursable grant with cap of $2,300.80 per acre treated.
Contact Walkerfirewise@gmail.com to see if your parcel qualifies. This grant is scheduled to end on March 31, 2026. There is still time to take advantage and plenty of money still available for reimbursements.
    
  HFI 23-353 GRANT RULES    
  1.  A Wildfire Risk Assessment must be performed by Walker Firewise.
2.  The acreage must not have had federal grant funds used for mitigation in the past.
3.  A current Wildfire Risk Assessment must be performed with property owner in attendance.
4.  Maximum Reimbursement Amount per acre treated is $2,300.80.
5.  A minimum of two bids from qualified contractors must be obtained.
6.  Property owner is responsible for obtaining bids & hiring the work done.
7.  The property owner may not be their own contractor for reimbursement.
8.  The project when completed must reflect the prescription presented on the Wildfire Risk Assessment.
9.  A post assessment must be performed before final payment is paid to contractor.
10. Proofs of payment must be submitted (front & rear of checks or credit card info)
11. Contractor must provide an invoice marked "Paid in Full".
12. Cash payments will not be reimbursed.
13. Reimbursement may take as long as 120+ days. (Typically 50 - 90 days) Due to governmental furloughs, delays are likely.		    
       
  NRCS - EQIP Projects
Natural Resources Conservation Service - Environmental Quality Incentive Program		    
  Round 1 -  Now closed

Round 2 - Now closed

Round 3 - Project was scheduled to close November 2025 (This may be extended due to the current government shutdown?)

ATTENTION!
If you would be interested in a new round of mitigation projects. Contact us now to be included. It is necessary that we have a list of properties seriously committed in order to apply for either Conservation projects or mitigation grants.
 		   
  Contact us: walkerfirewise@gmail.com
Walker Community Action Alliance
P.O. Box 25202
Prescott Valley, 86312
602-370-8020
updated 11/1/2025