WILDLAND Rx
Based in the Sierra Nevada Mountains of California, we provide consulting services to those seeking a safer co-existence with wildfire. We use our personal experience as wildland firefighters, coupled with modern mapping and planning tools, to develop mitigation strategies for communities at risk of wildfire. Our products include wildland fire behavior analyses, Community Wildfire Protection Planning, project implementation, expert witness testimony, and wildland fire training. These services lead to development of strategies and tactics to reduce the losses from wildfires to natural resources and private property. We also provide training courses as a course coordinator and instructor for wildland fire courses covering both prescribed fire and wildfire suppression operation positions.

Full Service Wildfire Hazard Mitigation
We provide vegetation fuel loading assessment and documentation, fire behavior modeling, documentation of wildland fire hazards, wildfire risk mapping and GIS mapping services. WILDLAND Rx provides a full suite of wildfire mitigation services to communities at risk of wildfire in the wildland urban interface. We cover all aspects of hazard mitiagation - from planning to implentation. Our plans make recommendations on fuel reduction treatment options, describe types of equipment available to treat wildland fuels, and include lists of contractors that will provide the best service for hazardous fuels reduction. We can also provide project management and monitoring services.

The WILDLAND Rx Team
We call upon colleagues from several other resource consulting firms for project development and mapping support. Firms that we have long-term relationships with include: Upstate CA a GIS and Web-based mapping firm, Zeke Lunder a GIS mapping and fuels management specialist at NorthTree Fire, and Steve Holl, of Holl Consulting - a firm specializing in wildlife habitat and environmental document development.

Barry Callenberger - Principal ~~~Contact

Barry has over 32 seasons of wildfire experience. During this time he has worked as a firefighter, Hotshot Crew Superintendent, district fuels officer, and as deputy regional chief. Since 1997, he has worked in the private sector, consulting on numerous wildland hazard mitigation projects through out the western United States.

As owner and principal for WILDLAND Rx, Barry has done numerous projects in fuels consulting work. Prior to opening his own business he was, for seven years, in charge of the Prescribed Fire and Fuels Management Division of North Tree Fire. North Tree Fire is a private contracting company that provides support equipment and services for wildland fire suppression and fuels management.

Barry began his career with the U. S. Forest Service on the Cleveland National Forest (R-5) in 1973. From 1985 thru 1993, Barry ran the Eldorado Interregional Hotshot Crew. In 1993, Barry was promoted into the Regional Prescribed Fire/Fuels Specialist position with the Pacific Southwest Region of the Forest Service, where he finished his Federal career.

As the prescribed fire specialist Barry participated in emissions work for the Grand Canyon Visibility Transport Commission. He was also responsible for the creation of the Interagency Smoke Management council a group of statewide representatives from the prescribed fire community and the air quality community.

Mr. Callenberger is skilled in the use of fire behavior analysis computer programs such as BEHAVE, FARSITE FLAMAP, NEXUS, FUELS MANAGEMENT ANALYIST PLUS, FIREFAMILY Plus, NFSPUFF, SASEM, RAMS, PCHA, IIAA, and FOFEM. As an employee of North Tree Fire, he managed contracts for prescribed fire and fuels management, developed prescribed fire burn plans, and provided direction on suppression approaches, conducted fuels analysis, and managed heavy equipment and burn personnel on prescribed burns and fuels projects.

 

Projects as Wildland Rx

Fuels Planning

• Region 5 USFS Hazardous Fuels Review   Evaluate the Fuels program on 8 National Forests in California
• Plumas Corporation, Plumas County Fire Safe Council   Validation of existing fuel profiles, analysis expected fire behavior using BEHAVE and FLAMAP, identify and map fuel treatment projects, and prioritize fuels treatment projects for the county.
• Tahoe Basin California Fire Safe Council   Develop a fuels treatment strategy for the four fire protection districts on the California side of the Tahoe Basin. Present the strategy to the fire districts and the community
• Hoopa Valley Tribal Forestry   Write a Fuels Management Plan and the necessary NEPA documentation for the Hoopa Valley Reservation which will allow them to create a funding stream for fuels treatment projects. Prioritize Projects to provide wildland fire safety for resources and the community
• AngelesNational Forest   Review burn Plans and assist in fuel hazard reduction projects
• Amador County Fire Safe Council   Fuel reduction project layout and administration of contracts for fuels reduction. Writing a Community Wildfire Protection Plan for Volcano
• El Dorado Fire Safe Council   Writing a Community Wildfire Protection Plan for Grizzly Flat and Hazardous Fuels Assessment for Cameron Park
• California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection, Cameron Park Fire District   Developing Risk and Hazard maps for Cameron Park and Fire behavior programs for community meetings using FARSITE and FLAMMAP
• Army Corp of Engineers, Fort Ord   Assisting the Corps and the Army Fire Department in developing a prescribed fire program for ordinance removal.
• Tahoe Regional Planning Authority thru Steve Holl Consulting   Combining all the Tahoe Basin Community Wildfire Protection Plans into one document.
• Instructor for S490 Advanced Fire Behavior:US    Forest Service

Prescribed Fire Projects

• Cadre leader and Instructor for the US Forest Service Prescribed fire Burn Boss RX 300 Class and Smoke Management RX450   I have instructed and lead the classes for the Pacific Southwest Region of the Forest Service. The Classes involved teaching the students all aspects of Burn Plan development through proper layout of burns, developing resource objectives, and prescriptions. Rx 450 focuses on proper smoke management and smoke management plans.
• Las Vaqueros Prescribed Fire Burn Plan, Smoke Management Plan and Fire management Plan for Contra Costa County Water District, Jones and Stokes Associates   Wrote the burn plan for a burn on the Las Vaqueros Reservoir for habitat restoration and fire protection.
• Prescribed Fire Burns   I have participated in numerous prescribed fire projects as burn plan writer and Burn Boss. Understory burning on Plumas National Forest, for Soper Wheeler Co., Louisiana Pacific Timber Company, North Fork association, US Army Fort Ord. burn program in 1998 burning several OE sites, and for the Bureau of Land Management. I am one of only a few currently qualified by the US Forest Service qualifications as a Prescribed Fire Planner and Burn Boss I.

Projects while with North Tree Fire

• Sheffield Reservoir feasibility study
  Carrollo, Engineering, Santa Barbara, California.
• Cathedral Prescribed Burn Environmental Analysis,
    Tahoe Basin Management Unit, with Jones and Stokes Associates
• Medicine Lake Watershed Analysis, Modoc National Forest
  with Environmental Management Associates
• Middle Hayfork Creek and Salt creek Watershed Analysis
  Shasta Trinity National Forest
  With URS Greiner Woodward
• Carnegie SVRA - Alameda/Tesla acquisition project
  Fire Protection section of the Environmental Impact Report
  For Jones and Stokes Associates
• Kingsberry/Rush EA, Fire and Fuels input
  Crystal Adams EA, Fire and Fuels input
  For Jones and Stokes Associates, Plumas National Forest
• Ward Management Area EA, Fire and Fuels input
  Tahoe Basin Management Unit.
  Sub contract with Jones and Stokes Associates
• Morro Bay National Estuary Watershed Fire Management Plan
• South Fork DFPZEA Fire and Fuels input
• Ely and Elko District Nevada BLM
  R.A.M.S. (Risk Assessment and Mitigation Strategies)
• PG&E Consultant for powerline clearance, San Juan Bautista