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The Boise Dispatch Center continues its interagency success in providing safe, cost effective service for wildland fires within southwest Idaho for Boise District BLM, Boise National Forest, and Southwest Idaho Department of Lands. Listed below is the total acreage responsibility of Boise Dispatch Center and each agency's ownership and protection areas.
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BOISE BLM |
BOISE NF |
SOUTHWEST IDL |
OWNERSHIP ACRES |
3,966,542 |
2,612,000 |
495,633 |
PROTECTION ACRES |
6,558,258 |
2,112,238 |
393,058 |
BOISE DISPATCH PROTECTION RESPONSIBILITY ACRES |
9,063,554 |
With cooperation agreements each agency has wildland fire responsibilities on other lands that include private, US Fish and Wildlife, Bureau of Reclamation, and US Military.
The Boise Dispatch Center is operated with one center manager, two assistant center managers, an intelligence dispatcher, an aircraft dispatcher, six primary initial attack dispatchers, and one office assistant. The center manager is the main supervisor and the core to our operations. The two assistant center managers work together to provide day to day supervision and coordination, and act as the main liaison between duty officers and dispatchers. Of the six primary IA dispatchers, three also had secondary duties as needed; one to assist the aviation dispatcher, one to be the primary logistical dispatcher, and a night dispatcher. Each dispatcher also had an area of responsibility which could include Bureau of Land Management, South Zone of Boise National Forest, North Zone of Boise National Forest or Southwest Idaho Department of Lands. This was the second year of a two-year rotation that personnel were assigned their responsibilities.
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