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Tim Weaver – “Fire Resistance and Aesthetics – Combining Beautiful Building Materials and Large Scale Fire Adaptation”
Lieutenant Tim Weaver has been with the Rapid City Fire Department for 19 years, the last 9 spent in the Fire Marshal’s office. Tim has a Bachelor’s degree in Marketing from the University of Sioux Falls and an extensive construction and building background to compliment his 19 years of experience in wildland fire operations and mitigation training. Tim started Rapid City’s Survivable Space Initiative in 2011 which focuses on wildfire mitigation assistance and fire adapted education for landowners in Rapid City with the help of several grant programs. He is paving the path for new wildfire safety standards in Rapid City’s primary WUI hazard areas, and helped create a local cost share program with buy in from city leaders. Larger wildfire mitigation projects on tracks of land in and surrounding Rapid City are accomplished through the Initiatives Veteran Fuel Mitigation Crew with the help of the Bureau of Land Management. This program provides a good wage and training to veterans transitioning from active duty while mitigating large wildfire threats to Rapid City neighborhoods. He has worked closely with the South Dakota Wildland Fire Suppression Division to provide grant programs and education to landowners and local Volunteer Fire Departments alike, and has recently worked with local stake holders to develop the Black Hills Resilient Forest Strategy for the Black Hill National Forest and surrounding communities.
Alison Green
Alison Green was the former Executive Director of Project Wildfire in Deschutes County, Oregon. She is now head of a multi-county collaborative focused on the three tenants of the National Cohesive Wildland Fire Management Strategy (1) effective firefighting response, (2) creating fire adapted communities, and (3) resilient landscapes. She will be sharing information on how to collaborate to create fire adapted communities.