Suggested Outreach Opportunities

This page last reviewed January 12, 2010

This page provides suggested outreach opportunities for land and air quality managers to use year-round. At this stage of outreach, the information should be of a general nature.

Scope of Information:

• General information on resource management projects (burn and non-burn)
  • Area's fire history
  • Fire ecology (Fact Sheet: The Benefits of Fire)
  • Management objectives of projects (Fact Sheets: Vegetation Management Program, Resource Management)
• Health effects of smoke (Fact Sheet: Smoke Management and Public Health, Brochure: How Smoke from Fires Can Affect Your Health)
• Calendar of anticipated projects
• How land and air quality managers work together to minimize smoke impacts (Fact Sheet: Prescribed Burning and Smoke Management)
• Identify appropriate agency contacts through which the public can get more information

Target Audience (and Potential Opportunities)

• Sensitive Receptors
  • Develop a list of individuals identified as especially sensitive to smoke impacts
• Local Elected Officials
  • Arrange a presentation for your local decision makers
• Public Health Officials
  • Wildfire Smoke: A Guide for Public Health Officials
  • Smoke Management and Public Health - Air Resources Board (ARB)
• Local Print Media
  • Feature articles on resource management
  • Calendar of anticipated projects
• Local Fire Safe Councils
  • Work with your Fire Safe Council to help them deliver the Joint Message
• General Public
  • Organize a town hall meeting
  • Host a booth publicly attended events (parades, home and garden shows, fishing derbies, etc.)
  • Provide educational resources, such as:
    • Fact Sheets
    • Presentations
    • Website
    • Complaint Process

This page updated May 12, 2003.
SMP Public Outreach Protocol