Fire/EMS set to run $250,000 fuels grant for Indian Paintbrush HOA

Jackson Hole Fire/EMS is asking county commissioners on Tuesday to let the department administer a $250,000 Wyoming State Forestry hazardous fuels grant for the Indian Paintbrush subdivision in the Fall Creek corridor, with work centered on HOA common parcels and roadway easements inside Indian Paintbrush and McNeely. The staff report says the treatments are intended to “improve defensible space, reduce ladder fuels, and enhance ingress/egress” for a neighborhood with narrow, one way road corridors. Wyoming State Forestry Fuels Mitigation Grant Staff Report and Agreement Packet

The cooperative agreement runs from the date all parties sign through March 31, 2031, and it requires separate accounting and reporting, plus completing all mitigation work and submitting spatial and performance reporting by that deadline. For those of us who watch the valley’s wildlife and smoke seasons as closely as we watch building permits, this is the kind of cross boundary work that matters: fuels projects are already underway on adjacent state and federal lands, and the packet frames this subdivision level treatment as a complement to that broader push. Wyoming State Forestry Fuels Mitigation Grant Staff Report and Agreement Packet