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<br />. <br /> <br />Issue C-9: Common GIS Database <br />Background: Geographic Infonnation Systems (GIS) are now available to help map <br />and describe features on the ground. GIS is being used in natural resource management <br />and by some local governments for land use and mitigation planning and as a decision, <br />making LOOI. However, there are many systems and methods for GIS. There is no <br />common infonnation database for Colorado; each entity must gather the data iL needs for <br />its current project. Data gathered is noL always available to another entity or may noL be <br />compatible with another's data needs. The technology exists to share and utilize data <br />from many sources; the Forest Sciences Deparunent aL Colorado State University has a <br />GIS teaching lab and interest in a natural resources GIS library for Colorado. <br /> <br />Action Element: EntiLies place their GIS daLa into a common data library for storage <br />and sharing and agree upon common data needs for natural resource data updaLes. Build a <br />GIS data "backbone system" to enable all incompatible data to be linked together and <br />utilized by any agency for any natural resource need. <br /> <br />Agencies: Colorado State University */* Colorado State ForeSL Service, Division of <br />Local Government Cartography Office, federal natural resource agencies, county and city <br />land use deparunenLs, GIS sofLware companies. <br /> <br />Estimated Costs: To be detennined by data library needs assessment. <br />Funding Sources: Grants and interested entities. Share cost for library hardware and <br />daLa storage, Individual entiLy pays for gathering new data it needs, <br />Schedule: OperaLional in 1998. <br /> <br />Issue C.I0: Fuel Modification <br />Background: Wildfires have hisLorically served as forest thirming agents. Later, <br />logging and grazing also helped to reduce fuels. Control of wildfires, decreased logging <br />and grazing, the subsequent vegeLative growth and accumulation, and land developments <br />have drastically increased the chances of catastrophic wildftres. <br /> <br />Fuel hazard reduction projects have declined significantly over the last decade as funds <br />and public interest have subsided. High turnover in private ownership of interface home <br />areas has further decreased awareness of wildfire hazards and fuel modiftcation <br />alLematives. <br /> <br />Action Element: Identify and prioritize fuel hazards within and adjacent to interface <br />areas. Implement necessary interagency fuel hazard reduction measures including <br />prescribed burning. <br /> <br />Agencies: County planning deparunents, Colorado State Forest Service */* federal, <br />state and local public land agencies, landowners. <br /> <br />Estimated Costs: To be determined for each hazard area. <br /> <br />Funding Sources: Agency funding for identiftcation and prioritization of needs; <br />landowner and matching grants for implementation. <br /> <br />Schedule: <br /> <br />Inventorv - initiaLe immediately; ongoing as development continues. <br /> <br />Imolementation - continue ongoing projects; begin new projects whenever <br />interest is high. <br /> <br />31 <br />