New Project: Fire Resiliency in Two Idaho National Forests

New Project: Fire Resiliency in Two Idaho National Forests

Federal Contracting, Geotagging, Long Distance, Places We Go, Wildfires

 

New Project:

Southwest Idaho Wildfire Crisis Landscape Project

 

 

For the USDA Forest Service, documentation photography of the landscapes of Payette and Boise National Forests in Idaho.

Project: Southwest Idaho Landscape Photo Documentation
Location: Boise National Forest and Payette National Forest
Duration: 2 years
Client: USDA Forest Service (Federal)

Why it Matters: 

The communities and forests of Southwest Idaho are at great risk to experience  catastrophic wildfires. 

The Southwest Idaho Landscape Project will restore health and resiliency to the Boise and Payette National Forests, reducing the risk of catastrophic and undesirable wildfire while increasing the resiliency of the landscape to climate change and other stressors.

For this contract, AESP will be photographing the Forest Service’s work in the two national forests, over two years.

More information about the Southwest Idaho Landscape project can be found in this storymap.

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We are experienced Federal Contractors, as both prime and subcontractors, and accept government credit cards and micropurchase orders. – Suzanne

 

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Bureau of Land Management: Fire Preparedness Review

Bureau of Land Management: Fire Preparedness Review

Federal Contracting, Long Distance, Places We Go, Wildfires, Wildland firefighting

 

Wildland Firefighting:

Preparedness Review for the Bureau of Land Management

 

A bee sting lays low a wildland firefighter in the Mojave Desert of St. George, Utah — or did it? This mock fire attack was part of the Arizona Strip District’s fire preparedness review at the start of the wildland fire season in the American Southwest.

Working and traveling with the Bureau of Land Management’s fire preparedness review team brought me to the Mojave and Sonoran deserts, 110-degree heat in Yuma, Arizona, and some pretty spectacular landscapes.

But the main purpose of the project was to capture the work of the Bureau’s Fire Preparedness Review Team: their mock fire exercises, equipment reviews, remote stations and helitack operations, and fuels management programs.

 

 

KINGMAN, AZ – MAY 15: Wildland firefighters from the Colorado River District wait for radio communications while attacking a mock fire in the desert east of Kingman, Arizona. The exercise was part of the 2022 Arizona Fire Preparedness Review in Kingman, Arizona on Sunday, May 15, 2022. Photo by Suzanne Allman, contract photographer for BLM

 

 

The picture of the “injured” firefighter was taken as part of one of these mock exercises in the Mojave Desert in the southwest corner of Utah. Firefighters of the Arizona Strip District practiced responding to environmental hazards — among them, the allergic reaction to a bee sting that required treatment, evacuation and calls for an airlift.

The ten-day photography project encompassed the Districts of the Arizona Strip, Colorado River and Phoenix area; we drove through desert, canyon, chaparal, and those gorgeous, butterscotch-scented Ponderosa pine forests.

 

 

A wildland firefighter deploys a hose to fight a mock fire in the desert east of Kingman, Arizona. Photo by Suzanne Allman, contract photographer for BLM

 

 

This project is part of a three-year blanket purchase agreement with the Department of the Interior’s Bureau of Land Management, to provide photo and video coverage of the BLM’s fire program on public lands.

 

 

A team of wildland firefighters from Kingman sets out with flappers, pulaskis and other tools to attack a mock fire in the desert east of Kingman, Arizona. Photo by Suzanne Allman, contract photographer for BLM

 

 

Environmental services photography assignments share a common thread. Whether they’re regulatory-driven initiatives, or projects designed to raise the profile of an agency, or to educate citizens about a particular problem or issue, these projects work to gain local support for community-based solutions.

 

 

 

With the rocky peaks of the Hualapai Mountains as a backdrop, firefighters use a brushcutter to trim fuels on a fuel break surrounding the community of Pine Lake, south of Kingman, Arizona on Monday, May 16 2022. Photo by Suzanne Allman, contract photographer for BLM.

The Virgin River flows between red rock canyon walls in the Bureau of Land Management’s Virgin River Canyon Recreation Area. Photo by Suzanne Allman, contract photographer for BLM

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Challenging terrain, geography and environments are a personal specialty.  Capture the energy of your team at work, on training and field exercises, with heavy equipment or in challenging environmental conditions. These photos can be used again and again: in annual reports, your socials, on office walls and other marketing deliverables.  -Suzanne

 

  • CERTIFIED: SBA-certified WOSB, New York State- and City-certified WBE, and Port Authority certified DBE
  • REGISTERED: SAM & ORCA. Experienced in Federal Government contracting and subcontracting.
  • WILDLAND FIREFIGHTING CERTIFICATES S-130/190, L-180 
  • FAA PART 107 Since 2017
  • DUNS: 839898728.
  • FEIN: 84-2603642
  • We accept all government agency purchase orders and credit cards.

 

145 NEPERAN ROAD, TARRYTOWN, NY 10591

 

 

914-653-6154

 

 

CONTACT

 

SERVING ENVIRONMENTAL SERVICE INDUSTRIES, ENGINEERS AND AGENCIES BY USING PHOTOGRAPHY AS A FORCE FOR GOOD.

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Certified: Wildfire Behavior

Certified: Wildfire Behavior

photography, Training, Wildfires

 

Allman Environmental Services Photography LLC was recently awarded a 3-year BPA contract to cover wildland fires and wildland fire-related activities in the American West, Southwest and Alaska. The photography and videography will support the Bureau of Land Management, under the Department of the Interior, in their efforts to tell the story of wildland fire work to the public.

To prepare for the work in these challenging environments, New York Wildfire & Incident Management Academy in Southampton, New York provided the training, under the magnanimous direction of Willy Cirone (pictured with bunny ears). 

 

 

 

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We’re always training and always learning. If you have a job that requires photography in challenging or dangerous environments for which specialized training is needed, we’re happy to get the needed certification.

 

  • CERTIFIED: SBA-certified WOSB, New York State- and City-certified WBE, and Port Authority certified DBE
  • REGISTERED: SAM & ORCA. Experienced in Federal Government contracting.
  • DUNS: 839898728.
  • CERTIFIED: S-130/190, L-180 for wildland and basic firefighting
  • We accept all government agency purchase orders and credit cards.